by: Akira ICHIKAWA Emeritus Professor Edogawa University, Japan In open and long distance learning of future digital age, qualitative improvement of learning contents in the field of not only school education but also adult education is so important for us. Using information technology such as computers,  it is extremely effective communication means, and I think about a method of long distance education to...

ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) is a fmous motivation models developed by John Keller. On te occasion of International symposium on Distance Learning and e-Learning (ISODEL) 2007, he wrote and presented his model as a key issues in implementing and sustaining distance and e-learning. I think it would be worthfull if his presentation published here, so everybody can see and apply his model...

Saat ini, dunia telah berada dalam era informasi atau dikenal pula sebagai era global. Dalam waktu tidak lebih dari setengah abad sejak ditemukannya komputer pertama sekitar 50 tahun yang lalu, peradaban telah berpindah dari era industri ke era global atau era informasi. Padahal perpindahan dari era pertanian menuju era industri memakan waktu kurang lebih tiga abad lamanya (Voss et al, 1999). Era informasi ditandai...

by G. Dhanarajan[1] Full of his Article can be downloaded here: dhanarajan  In 1999, Peter Drucker predicted that in the next 50 years, “schools and universities will change more rastically than they have since they assumed their present form 300 years ago when they organized hemselves around the printed book”.[1] Drucker was not alone in his pronouncements. There are others as well. Some twenty years ago...

  By CHEONG Hee Kiat President, SIM University Abstract Open and Distant Learning (ODL) has proliferated in recent years due to increased demand for education opportunities for an increasing world population, the view  that education is a major contribution to national economic success, and because of globalization and the improvements in Info-communication Technology (ICT). While this is laudable, there...

The capacity of Information and Communications Technology to act as a catalyst of change (both positive and negative) in the realm of education is irrefutable. The concern, however, in most of the developing world is the potentially high cost of implementing ICT in education and a distinctive lack of empirical evidence of the success of such implementation. The existence of infrastructure in and of itself is...

Kawan, Ada satu hal yang mungkin terlupakan atau terabaikan dalam konsep distance learning baik dengan memanfaatkan e-learning maupun hybrid learning yaitu kontrak belajar (learning contract). Tahukah Anda bahwa dalam pembelajaran / pendidikan jarak jauh (distance learning), karena keterpisahan JARAK dalam tanda petik antara pemelajar dan tutor / instruktur / dosen / guru, maka menuntut dua atau mungkin tiga-lah...