The Contribution of Open And Distance Education System on Life-Long Learning Process: The Case of Anadolu Univ
Güler Günsoy () and
Bülent Günsoy ()
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Güler Günsoy: Anadolu University
Bülent Günsoy: Anadolu University
No 5306954, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Abstract:
Education is a key factor that makes people healthier, enhances income distribution, decreases poverty rates, promotes productivity by encouraging technological advance, leads up economic growth and decreases unemployment rates. The process of education had been limited to childhood and youth but today, that point of view is abandoned. Today, the concept of life-long learning shapes education policies all over the World. In terms of this, contributions of the systems of open and distance education, which have been developed rapidly in parallel with information and communication Technologies, to the mission of life-long learning is discussed in literature. The purpose of this study is to reveal at which rate Anadolu University Open and Distance Education System contributes to the life-long learning. As the indicators of that contribution, the people that are registered to secondary university, are handicapped, are either an arrestee or an detainee and are old were analyzed. The results are in line with the hypothesis of Anadolu University Open and Distance Education System contributes to life-long learning target largely.
Keywords: Lifelong Learning; Distance Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2016-11
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 26th and the 27th International Academic Conference (Istanbul, Prague), Nov 2016, pages 37-37
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