Bridging courses by distance education for overseas-trained professionals migrating to Australia: Practical and viability issues
Titel:
Bridging courses by distance education for overseas-trained professionals migrating to Australia: Practical and viability issues
Auteur:
Evans, Terry Northcott, Paul
Verschenen in:
Distance education
Paginering:
Jaargang 20 (1999) nr. 2 pagina's 205-219
Jaar:
1999
Inhoud:
This article discusses the issues concerned with using distance education to help provide bridging courses for overseas-trained professionals migrating to Australia. Often such courses are specialised, have small enrolments and are required on demand by the recently arrived migrant. Therefore, there are significant practical and viability problems to be expected for the providers of such courses. The article draws on work from a 1997 study of the potential and viability of distance education bridging courses for overseas-trained professionals migrating to Australia. The study was commissioned and funded by the National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition, of the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, under its Evaluations and Investigations Program. A discussion is provided of the particular problems encountered in the provision of on-campus courses for students whose locations, schedules and circumstances are quite diverse. However, whilst distance education provision might seem a reasonable solution to such problems, for some professions there are particular practical matters concerning such provision. A key issue addressed is conceptualising the viability of developing and providing such courses through distance education, and how this may help distance educators view the viability of other small 'boutique' courses in distance education.
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