European Distance Education or Distance Education in Europe?Alan Tait

Professor of Distance Education and Development

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Curriculum and Qualifications)

Linz November 2010

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Functions of an Open University

• To help economic development• To respond to public demand• To widen access to new groups of students• Intervention to change HE systems • Major social change

Development

• ‘an intervention aimed at external social goals in a context of value-based conflict’

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