{"product_id":"mega-schools-technology-and-teachers-1","title":"Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers","description":"\u003cp\u003eEducation for All (EFA) has been a top priority for governments and intergovernmental development agencies for the last twenty years. So far the global EFA movement has placed its principal focus on providing quality universal primary education (UPE) for all children by 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest addition to \u003cem\u003eThe Open and Flexible Learning\u003c\/em\u003e series, this book\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eaddresses the new challenges created by both the successes and the failures of the UPE campaign. This book advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today’s rapidly growing population of children and young adults and examines:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe creation and expansion of Mega-Schools, which combine distance learning and community support and have a proven track record of increasing access at scale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow to prepare the ten-million new teachers that are required to achieve Education for All by 2015 by focusing on classroom-based in-service training \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003estrategies for using technology to scale up distance education cost-effectively \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe creation of a twenty-first century educational ecosystem that integrates open schooling and teacher education with communities and their school systems \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esuccessful examples of open schools and teacher education programmes operating at scale around the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will be delighted to find that Sir John Daniel, bestselling Routledge author of \u003cem\u003eMega Universities and Knowledge Media\u003c\/em\u003e, delivers another insightful and practical book on educational technology. \u003cem\u003eMega-Schools, Technology and Teachers\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to all who are concerned by the central educational challenge of our times: providing secondary education to tens of millions of young people around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259886522712,"sku":"9780415872041","price":210.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415872041_7c043ca9-7a14-4598-a969-a03fb893d972.jpg?v=1769639419","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mega-schools-technology-and-teachers-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}