OPEN, DISTANCE AND ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

Description.

Open and traditional education: traditional higher education systems, open higher education systems. Special educational tools – methods: Distance education, existence – design of special educational material, requirements from lecturers, how distance education serves open education, the organization of distance education, modular system. Relationships between teachers and learners: relations of open and distance education with educational and social institutions, as well as its basic functions. Distance education and its characteristics (industrial-capitalist society, removal of space from time, extraction of mechanisms and specific systems, flexibility, individualisation). Learning conditions, teaching methods, educational tools, theories for the curriculum in adult education. Learning basic skills. Communication and team dynamics.
The educational material and Technologies of Informatics in Education:

• Design and development of educational printed and electronic material with the basic principle of  interaction of learners and learning materials.
• Written assignments and methodology of their evaluation, organization of group counseling meetings, basic principles of educational evaluation, reflection that has developed in recent years on the effective use of cutting-edge technologies in education.
• The contribution of the learner, the trainer and the quality of the educational relationship. Asynchronous e-learning labs (Moodle, Claroline, Open eClass).
• Modern tele-training.
• Videoconferencing technologies , in-link by virtue of classroom.
• The concept of changing education.
• The scientific field of adult education.
• The theoretical approaches to adult education and their founders.
• Characteristics of adult learners.
• Educational techniques of adult education.
• Modern approaches to adult education.
• Evaluation of adult education programmes.
• Adult education and training for adults.
• Definitions, needs and specificities of adult education.Characteristics and basic principles of adult education.
• The adult learner and adult learning.
• Stochastic, non-stochastic, non-learning.
• Some theoretical approaches.
• The mediation of cutting-edge technology for the realization of adult education goals.  

Bibliography:
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7. Kokkos A., Lionarakis A., Matralis C. and Panagiotakopoulos C., “Open and distance education: the educational materials and new   technologies” volume C’, E.A.P., Patras 1998