The Poor Relation of the Education System? Aspects of Distance Education and Open and Distance Learning.

Author: Tella, Seppo
Published: Helsinki
Source: http://www.edu.helsinki.fi [30.09.2003].

Abstract

Seppo Tella analyses and points out "subtle differences between some of the basic concepts related to what used to be called rather unanimously 'distance education'". The term describes ways of teaching and learning "taking place outside of the institutionalised educational systems". According to Tella, different versions of distance education are "constantly gaining ground as they are becoming located more centrally in the mainstream educational systems".

Tella, Seppo

Seppo Tella, born in 1947, is Professor of Foreign Language Education at the University of Helsinki since 1997. Additionally, he directs the Media Education Centre and the Research Centre for Foreign Language Education. As a specialist in media education he has both led and participated in many European Union-based projects on media education, information and communication technologies and foreign language education.

Publications: "Aspects of Media Education: Strategic Imperatives in the Information Age" (ed.) 1998, "Teaching Through a Foreign Language: From Tool to Empowering Mediator" (co-ed.) 1999, "Media, Mediation, Time and Communication: Emphases in Network-Based Media Education" (ed.) 2000.