The establishment of the Hellenic Open University

Lionarakis, Antonis

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“…Perhaps the most conventional usage sees 'culture' as a national-geographic anchor when discussing the particularities of developing DL in specific national and regional contexts (e.g. Elsiddig, 1993;Lionarakis, 1996;Lyall & McNamara, 2000;Murphy & Yum, 1998). These discussions sometimes involve a cross-cultural dimension, both internationally (e.g.…”

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Educating Language Teachers Through Distance Learning: The need for culturally-appropriate DL methodology

Fay¹,

Hill

2003

Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

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For it to be effective, distance learning (DL) methodology must be sensitive to the cultural complexities of the provision involved. Collaboration between the Hellenic Open University and the University of Manchester on three DL programmes for experienced teachers of English and French exemplifies such cultural complexity. This has involved: the inter-institutional 'transplant' of courseware (with inherent 'tissue rejection' risks); writer mentoring towards DL methodological competence; and inter-programme comparisons of 'methodological cultures'. With this backdrop, we present a conceptualisation for the development of appropriate DL methodology, and then some writers' reflections based on it.Further, we argue that the cultural complexities can be effectively managed through a process of meaning negotiation which we illustrate in relation to the assessment process. The conceptualisation, reflections and meaning negotiation example are offered as a stimulus for practitioners to better understand their emerging programme cultures and thus be better prepared for the task of developing appropriate DL practice.

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“…the MEd in English Language Teaching (ELT) and the MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). The HOU, formally established in 1997 (Lionarakis, 1996), wanted to Downloaded by [University of Florida] at 08:05 14 June 2016…”

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Educating Language Teachers Through Distance Learning: The need for culturally-appropriate DL methodology

Fay¹,

Hill

2003

Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

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“…It also proposed that HOU's administration be carried out by an academic council comprised of the Rectors and the Presidents of administrative committees hailing from all Greece's higher educational institutions (Lykourgiotis, 1998). According to Lionarakis (1996), this bill -which incidentally never came into force -"raises the problem of identity of HOU and does not allow it to introduce those new methods that are essential for an open university in a conservative education system" (p. 56).…”

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“…The committee's objective was to acquire the "know-how" needed to successfully launch and run a Greek open and distance learning institution. The task of this committee was to: a) work out the university's framework, b) develop a detailed bill for the establishment of the HOU, and table this bill with the Greek Ministry of Education Affairs (n.b., this bill was different from the one 3 outlined in 1992); and c) start offering courses leading to several degrees (Koustourakis, 2006;Lionarakis, 1996;Lykourgiotis, 1998). Thus, from 1995Thus, from -1997 the new law concerning the establishment of HOU was voted in, the scientific physiognomy of the university was determined.…”

Section: Distance Education In Greece Through the Hellenic Open Univementioning

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IRRODL Volume 9, Number 2

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and the US, and reviews of distance education developments in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. A new world of distance education (DE) is coming together in the developing world, as old media such as radio and the telephone merge with each other and the Internet to form wholly original interactive partnerships. So I now offer you a new piece of jargon, coined to pay respect to the creative return to older DE media: 'paradigm rollback'-you heard it here first! This odious but quite typical piece of verbiage signifies "a shift back to an idea whose time has come," as in the case of DE technologies supplanted for a while by the promise that the Internet would do the job better. I just looked the term up on Google, and find only one reference to it so far-in the conference presentation where I coined the term a week ago! Let's see how many references there are to 'paradigm rollback' a few months from now among those for whom jargon is all. .. The first paper by Stella Porto and Zane Berge discusses how DE is shaped by the socio-political context. Brazil is a developing country undergoing rapid globalization, yet much of its legislation remains rooted in past practices. Porto and Berge argue that legislation in Brazil is currently inimical to the deployment of public DE throughout the country. Private sector companies have stepped in to fill the void created by this problem, in the effort to serve employees' training needs. The downside of this trend, Porto and Berge argue, is that private sector efforts will widen the digital divide between Brazil's urban/ rural and rich/ poor. The socio-political theme is also pursued by Gerasimos Koustourakis, Chris Panagiotakopoulos, and Dimitris Vergidis in a study employing a Bersteinian theoretical framework at The Hellenic Open University (HOU). The work is grounded within the larger Greek geopolitical landscape, by showing that HOU was born with one foot in the DE world and the other in the traditional educational environment, and that this bifurcated approach is being used to inform other universities' DE practices throughout Greece. The authors argue that it may not be wise to use the HOU as an exemplar at this juncture, owing to the scant research so far conducted into the efficacy of its DE practices. The remaining main section papers are from North America. Sherry Piezon and William Ferree discuss Perceptions of Social Loafing in Online Learning Groups. The witty and thoughtprovoking concept of social loafing points to an entirely different form of online behaviour compared with that commonly described as 'lurking.' The paper discusses how students' 'loafing' can affect the process and outcomes of online learning, especially in group contexts. It is followed by a study of Online Self-Regulatory Learning Behaviors by Lucy Barnard, Valerie Paton and William Lan. These authors discuss how positive perceptions of online course communication and collaboration have been associated in the literature with better learning

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“…Έτσι, τα τελευταία χρόνια γίνονται προσπάθειες να αναπτυχθούν προγράμματα εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης και στη χώρα μας με σκοπό την παροχή περισσοτέρων ευκαιριών για την εύρεση εργασίας και την αύξηση της δημιουργικότητας των πολιτών καθ' όλη τη διάρκεια του βίου τους. Η εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευση, ως εκπαιδευτική καινοτομία, θεσμοθετήθηκε στη χώρα μας με την Ίδρυση του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου το 1992 (Lionarakis, 1996). Το Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο και η θεσμοθέτηση της εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης έδωσε νέες διαστάσεις στην εκπαίδευση, τόσο ως προς τη μεθοδολογία της όσο και την φιλοσοφία της (Lionarakis, 1998.…”

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Διδασκαλία Και Μάθηση Σε Εικονικά Περιβάλλοντα Σύγχρονης Τηλεδιάσκεψης

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The establishment of the Hellenic Open University

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Educating Language Teachers Through Distance Learning: The need for culturally-appropriate DL methodology

Educating Language Teachers Through Distance Learning: The need for culturally-appropriate DL methodology

IRRODL Volume 9, Number 2

Διδασκαλία Και Μάθηση Σε Εικονικά Περιβάλλοντα Σύγχρονης Τηλεδιάσκεψης

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