Certificate 'Distance
Education in Developing Countries'
The certificate
program 'Distance Education in Developing Countries' is a
certificate within the Master of Distance Education (MDE)
program jointly offered by University of Maryland University
College (UMUC) and Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
It consists
of four online courses:
- Foundations
of Distance Education (OMDE 601),
- Economics
of Distance Education (OMDE 606),
- Policies
for Distance Education in Developing Countries (OMDE 625),
and
- Educational
Technologies for Distance Education in Developing Countries
(OMDE 626).
While
OMDE
601 (Foundations) and OMDE
606 (Economics) laying the foundations for the certificate
program, OMDE 625 (Policies) and OMDE 626 (Technologies) are
specifically addressing the respective issues of distance
education in developing countries.
The certificate
program is intended for students with a specific interest
in development issues. Especially, the two specialized courses
on distance education in developing countries may attract
students from development organizations, including international
institutions, national agencies and non-governmental organizations,
working in the context of education and training. They may
also be of interest of educators, educational planners who
work themselves in developing countries in education or educational
planning and who want to explore what distance education has
to offer.
The two
courses specialized on developig countries (OMDE 625 and OMDE
626) do complement each other. While OMDE 625 is primarily
intended as an exercise in stocktaking of distance education
in developing countries (For what was it used? Which audiences
were reached? Did it work?) OMDE 626 is more explorative in
nature and examines the potential and impact of information
and communication technologies (ICT) on distance education
in the context of developing countries.
Find the
short descriptions of the two specialized courses by clicking
on the respective links:
General
information about the MDE program (course list, admission,
registration, tuition, etc.) is available on the webstite
of the Arbeitsstelle Fernstudienforschung (Center for Research
in Distance Education) at http://zefnotes.uni-oldenburg.de/ASF/ASF.nsf
(under "MDE" in the left menu).
For further
information contact thomas.huelsmann@uni-oldenburg.de.
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