http://www1.worldbank.org/disted/Technology/broadcast/tv-02.html
This article highlights’ the use of long distance learning in China through television, radio and even print.
As the article notes china was the first country to use TV and radio for higher education purposes. Before the introduction of education through radio and television those, who entered higher education was less than 2%. What is most important about these broadcast forms is that they enabled education to be available on a mass scale in a relatively “short” period, this is obviously impossible with the traditional one to one style of education that universities alone provided before hand. It’s fair to say that without these broadcast forms education would be much more limited.
China higher education institution ration went from 0.7 per cent in 1975 to 4 per cent in 1987 here it is evident that television and radio education has had a positive effect in appealing to a greater number of individuals. Education through television does not loose it’s value because of the “direct transcription of conventional University classroom teach.” At the same time “technology may widen the wealth gap” (Cumo, 2007: 157) because during the 70’s and 80’s not everyone had a television so not everyone could be educated.
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Technology seems to have conquered the limitations of there not being nearby universities and schools but the main problem that I find with this is that it tends to be a one directional medium…i.e. the lectures alone is this speaking voice students can not interact with the lecturer during the lecture. Questions that might be in the student’s mind at the time of the lecture might have been forgotten when group seminars are held.
ReplyDeleteThis technology is advantageous because the number of people entering higher education has increased but has the quality of information also increased but incorporating interactive facilities within the televised lectures?