ABSTRACT

School-level distance learning is an old story. It first hit the headlines with the foundation of the Schools of the Air in Australia in the 1920s. It continues to be used, and it works well. But in the last quarter century it has received little attention in comparison with university distance education. The spotlight has been on the supermarket open universities with their mass market, the tailor-made distance programmes of traditional universities and-most recently-e-learning initiatives aimed at the global market.