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With the population of Asia already over 3.6 Billion (over half of the world’s population) and growing, existing educational institutions are becoming increasingly strained. Current institutions and educators are not equipped to handle the growing demand for education. As such, access to education is restricted to those who can pay. There is a pressing need in Asia to develop a more effective, accessible, and inclusive system of education.

 

PANdora (Pan Asia Networking Distance and Open Resource Access) consists of nine separate sub-projects being implemented in 11 countries. These sub-projects cover a wide range of research topics, including the accessibility, acceptance, and effects of DLTs; the viability of short message system technologies; the effectiveness of open source software for distance learning; and current practices in course development, instructional design and training strategies. The research questions posed endeavour to determine the most effective means of developing and delivering distance learning technology to make education more accessible, gender and culture sensitive, user-friendly, collaborative, cost-effective, and specific to different environments and learning styles.

 

To support tertiary education that deploys appropriate emerging distance learning technologies (DLTs) to deliver affordable distance education, which is accessible to the masses. More specifically, the projectaims to:

As the project has just recently started, its development impact cannot be assessed at this time.

 

 

 

 /ACCESS TO EDUCATION/ /HIGHER EDUCATION/ /DISTANCE STUDY/ /INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/ /TELECOMMUNICATIONS/ /EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH/ /RESEARCH NETWORKS/

 

* All terms are drawn from the OECD Macrothesaurus 1998.