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List of Abbreviations i Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education This page intentionally left blank Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education Produced by the members of the Pan Asia Distance Resources Access (PANdora) Network (2005–08) representing institutions in 14 Asian countries Edited by Tian Belawati and Jon Baggaley Foreword by Tan Sri Emeritus Professor Gajaraj Dhanarajan International Development Research Centre Ottawa • Cairo • Dakar • Montevideo • Nairobi • New Delhi • Singapore Copyright © International Development Research Centre, 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Jointly published in 2010 by SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd International Development B1/I-1 Mohan Cooperative Industrial Area Research Centre Mathura Road, New Delhi 110 044, India P.O. Box 8500 www.sagepub.in Ottawa, ON SAGE Publications Inc Canada K1G 3H9 2455 Teller Road www.idrc.ca Thousand Oaks, California 91320, USA [email protected] ISBN (e-book) 978-1-55250-503-8 SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP, United Kingdom SAGE Publications Asia-Pacific Pte Ltd 33 Pekin Street #02-01 Far East Square Singapore 048763 Published by Vivek Mehra for SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, typeset in 10/12 pt Palatino by Star Compugraphics Private Limited, Delhi and printed at Chaman Enterprises, New Delhi. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education/edited by Jon Baggaley and Tian Belawati. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Distance education—Asia. 2. Distance education—Computer-assisted instruction. 3. Educational technology—Asia. I. Baggaley, Jon. II. Belawati, Tian. III. International Development Research Centre (Canada) LC5808.A78D57 371.3'59095—dc22 2010 2010040182 ISBN: 978-81-321-0562-6 (HB) The SAGE Team: Rekha Natarajan, Aniruddha De, Vijay Sah and Deepti Saxena Contents List of Tables vii List of Figures ix List of Abbreviations xi Foreword by Tan Sri Emeritus Professor Gajaraj Dhanarajan xvii Preface xxi Acknowledgements xxv Section 1: Open and Distance Learning 1. Conceptual Origins Tian Belawati 3 2. Financial Management Tian Belawati 12 3. Associations and Partnerships Tian Belawati 26 Section 2: Evaluation and Assessment in Distance Education 4. Cost-effectiveness Tian Belawati 41 5. Quality Assurance Tian Belawati 49 6. Student Assessment Kristanti Ambar Puspitasari 60 7. E-assessment Nazir Sangi 68 8. Conducting and Reporting Distance Education Evaluations Jon Baggaley 77 Section 3: Media Usage in Distance Education 9. History of Distance Education Media Usage 93 Tian Belawati and Jon Baggaley 10. Print and Audio Production Dewi Padmo 104 11. TV/Video Production Dewi Padmo 113 12. Online Learning Management Systems 122 Batpurev Batchuluun and Buyandelger Batsaikhan 13. Production of SMS Materials 136 Angelo J. Ramos and Jerome P. Triñona vi Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education Section 4: Principles of Distance Education Implementation 14. Accessibility and Selection of Distance Education Media Gihan Wikramanayake and Jon Baggaley 149 15. Adult Learning and Instructional Design 156 Santosh Panda and Jon Baggaley 16. Course Material Development Strategies 167 Santosh Panda 17. Gender and Outcome Mapping 180 Sana Shams, Sarmad Hussain and Atif Mirza Section 5: Examples of Distance Education and Open and Distance Learning Institutions 18. China Open University (formerly China Central Radio and TV University) Chen Haishan and Li Yawan 195 19. Korea National Open University Chang Yeul Yang 202 20. Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand 209 International Affairs Unit, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University 21. Universitas Terbuka (Indonesia Open University) 218 Ludivica Endang Setijorini and Irma Adnan 22. Virtual University of Pakistan Naveed Malik 225 23. Wawasan Open University, Malaysia 231 Gajaraj Dhanarajan References 241 About the Editors and Contributors 251 Index 253 List of Tables 1.1 The world’s twenty largest mega-universities 8 2.1 Cost structure of Universitas Terbuka 17 2.2 Cost classification by capital and operational costs 19 2.3 Overall budget breakdown in percentages 21 2.4 Cost structure of the UT’s learning materials development 22 5.1 Quality assurance at Asian ODL institutions 53 9.1 The five generations of DE technology 96 10.1 Two-column audio script 109 10.2 Three-column audio script 109 10.3 Summary of development process of print and audio 111 11.1 Single-column TV/video script 117 11.2 A two-column TV/video script 118 11.3 Summary of the TV/video production process at UT 121 12.1 Software that respondents (N = 82) have found useful in online learning 124 12.2 Overall ratings of Moodle by respondents (N = 82) 124 12.3 Moodle feedback from technical staff (N = 13) 125 15.1 Learning theories and corresponding methods 160 18.1 CCRTVU student body (end of 2006) 198 19.1 Overview of KNOU academic programmes 204 19.2 KNOU students’ profile by age (April 2009) 206 21.1 Universitas Terbuka student body (Semester 2010.1) 221 22.1 VUP programmes, majors, courses and students (2007) 229 This page intentionally left blank List of Figures 2.1 UT’s financial reporting mechanism 15 2.2 Budget breakdown by fixed and variable costs 18 2.3 Budget breakdown by fixed capital, fixed, recurrent and variable costs 18 2.4 Budget breakdown by capital and operational costs 19 2.5 Academic budget breakdown 20 2.6 Administration budget breakdown 20 2.7 Budget breakdown by all capital and operational costs 20 2.8 Cost breakdown of print materials development 23 2.9 Cost breakdown of non-print materials development 24 4.1 UT’s student body (2006) 44 4.2 UT’s alumni (to end 2005) 45 5.1 The Shewhart Cycle 50 10.1 Stages in development of print learning materials at UT 107 10.2 Stages of UT’s radio/audio programme development 110 11.1 Stages of UT’s TV/video programme development 120 12.1 An opening course display in Moodle 127 12.2 Moodle display for course login 128 12.3 Moodle display for creating a user account 130 12.4 Moodle display for confirming an account 131 12.5 Main course site display in English 132 12.6 Activities available at Moodle 133 12.7 A Moodle list of current users 134 15.1 The classroom model 161 15.2 The product model 162 15.3 The systems model 163 15.4 I CARE model 165 17.1 Three stages of outcome mapping 181 17.2 Three stages of OMg 186 17.3 Gender specification in boundary partners 187 x Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education 17.4 Progress markers for males and females within the same boundary partner 188 17.5 Specific strategies for males and females within the same boundary partner 189 17.6 Organisational practices for gendered outcome mapping 190 17.7 Specific cells to record observations for male and female boundary partners 191 22.1 New student enrolments at VUP (2002–07) 229 List of Abbreviations AAOU Asian Association of Open Universities ACM Author-Contract Model ADLA African Distance Learning Association AIOU Allama Iqbal Open University ALS Alternative Learning Services AMTEC Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada APA American Psychology Association ASTD American Society for Training and Development AUQA Australian Universities Quality Agency BRI Bank Rakyat Indonesia BTN Bank Tabungan Negara C/E ratios Cost-effectiveness ratios CADE Canadian Association for Distance Education CAI Computer-Assisted Instruction CBA Cost-benefit Analysis CBE Computer-based Examinations CCRTVU China Central Radio and TV University CDT Content Development Team CEA Cost-effectiveness Analysis CHEA American Council for Higher Education Accreditation CNIE Canadian Network for Innovation in Education COL Commonwealth of Learning CORE China Open Resources for Education COTS Commercial-off-the-shelf CPD Continuing and Professional Development CT Course Team CU Close-up DBMS Database Management Systems xii Policy and Practice in Asian Distance Education DE Distance Education DEC Distance Education Council DGB Directorate General of Budgeting DGHE Directorate General of Higher Education DII PGSD Diploma II Primary School Education DLF Distance Learning Foundation DLTC Distance Learning and Telemedicine Centre DTIs Distance Teaching Institutions EADTU European Association of Distance Teaching Universities EAI Enterprise Application Integration EAQAHE European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education EC European Commission ECU Extreme Close-up EFA Education for All ELS European Learning Space ESPF English for Special Purposes Foundation F2f Face-to-face FE Faculty of Economics FISIP Faculty of Social and Political Sciences FKIP Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences FL Flexible Learning FMIPA Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science GEM Gender Evaluation Methodology GLAD Gateways to Learning for Ability Development GPA Grade Point Average GSM Global System for Mobile Communications HEC Higher Education Commission HO Head Office HR Human Resource HRD Human Resources Development HSUM Health Sciences University of Mongolia ICDE International Council for Open and Distance Education ICT Information and Communication Technology ID Instructional Design IDE Institute of Distance Education IDR Indonesian Rupiah List of Abbreviations xiii IGNOU Indira Gandhi National Open University IMM Interactive Multimedia INQAAHE International