文档介绍：In: Collaboration in distance education: International case studies 1993;- ed. by L. Moran and I. Mugridge;- London: Routledge;- pp 1- 11
Collaboration in distance education
An introduction
Louise Moran and Ian Mugridge
Inter-institutional collaboration was the subject of lengthy discussion more than a decade ago, at the British Open University’s tenth anniversary conference in 1979. In a chapter of the conference book devoted to the subject, Michael Neil defined such collaboration as ‘an active working partnership supported by some kind of mitment’, based on formal agreement between two or anizations (Neil 1981: 25).
This definition forms the basis of the present collection, which further seeks to consider inter-institutional collaboration within the four motivational categories that Neil (1981: 142-4) established as emerging from the conditions he was describing. These were:
1 The desire to make ‘better or more extensive or new use of resources that are available within one or munities’.
2 The opportunity to improve ‘the quality of learning materials ... [to increase] educational opportunities for a wider student population, and [to ensure] . . . the relevance of studies to student needs’.
3 The need to respond to political pressures of various kinds.
4 The perceived need to guide or initiate changes of various kinds in particular societies.
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