The education of children in geographically remote regions through distance education : perspectives and lessons from Australia

• Main Authors: Lopes, Elaine (Author), O'Donoghue, T. A. 1953- (Author), O'Neill, Marnie H. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
• Subjects: Distance education > Australia.; Education, Rural > Australia.; Education > Research.; Open learning, distance education.; Education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806616411
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-455-7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)

Australia is a vast sparsely populated land and from an early date this created problems in terms of providing educational facilities. As part of the solution the nation has had a long tradition of using distance education methods to provide an education for its isolated primary and secondary school...