lifelong learning and distance higher education - Asia Pacific Region

RELEVANT INTERNET SITESFor an example of how financing fits into a nation’s (South Africa´s) over-all plan forhigher education at a distance:www.che.ac.za/documents/d000070/index.phpFor an overview, prepared by the Asian Development Bank, of how the financing ofdistance learning in Asian countries currently stands:www.adb.org/Education/financing-edu.pdfFor an overview of the issues involved in deciding who should pay what part of the costsof distance learning in California community colleges:www.cccco.edu/divisions/esed/aa_ir/disted/attachments/08-2sdep.pdfFor a view of the plan for self-financing of Hong Kong’s Opening Learning Institute:http://www1.worldbank.org/disted/Management/Operations/bud-03.htmlFor an understanding of the financing of distance learning within the context of financingof higher education in general, see the World Bank report:www.esib.org/commodification/documents/financing_educatioN_WB.pdfFor the discussion and results of a meeting of university chancellors concerned with thefinancing and management of distance learning programmes:www.uwex.edu/chancellor/documents/sloan_report.pdfREFERENCESArizona Learning Systems (1998). Preliminary Cost Methodology for Distance Learning.Arizona Learning Systems and the State Board of Directors for CommunityColleges of Arizona.Bates, A. W. (2000). Managing Technological Change: Strategies for College andUniversity Leaders. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers.Boettcher, J. V. (1999). How many students are just right in a web course? Available athttp://www,cren.net/~jboettch/number.htm .DiBiase, D. (2000). Is distance teaching more work or less?. American Journal ofDistance Education Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 6-20.Downes, Stephen (2001). Learning Objects: Resources for distance education worldwide.International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol. 2, No. 1.Finkelstein, Martin J.; Frances, Carol; Jewett, Frank I.; and Scholz, Bernhard W. (2000).Dollars, Distance and Online Education: The new economics of collegeteaching and learning. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx.Hülsmann, Thomas (2000). The Costs of Open Learning: A Handbook. Oldenburg,Germany, Carl von Ossietsky Universität Oldenburg.Littlejohn, Alison (ed.) (2003). Reusing Online Resources. A Sustainable Approach toE-learning. London, Kogan Page.47