Virtual higher education : some Commonwealth experience
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A little personal history first. In 1971, at the invitation of la Commission française pour l’unesco, I took part in a colloque at the Centre national d'études spatiales on the use of satellites for education. We or some in the colloque were expecting them to revolutionise education. A few years later, instructional television, pioneered at the Ecole Normale St Cloud and further afield in Niger and Côte d’Ivoire, was going to bring that revolution. Or perhaps radio. We talked about that revolution and its costs and effects at the University of Dijon in 1978, again thanks to the commission, and to the World Bank. I was back in Paris in 1989 for UNESCO’s Congrès international on Education et informatique; by now it was a newer set of technologies that would bring the revolution. I am grateful for these repeated promises of revolution: they bring me to France. But I have news: la révolution n’aura pas lieu.
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