My contribution entitled “Educational and Economic Reforms, Gender Equity, and Access to Schooling in Africa” was a winner of the 2001 Joyce Cain Award for Distinguished Research on African descendants.

This issue of the IJCS and a book with the same content were published simultaneously in 2000. Preface In 1999, I was invited by the guest editor of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology (IJCS) published by Brill in the Netherlands, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, to submit an article to be considered for publication in the special issue Dynamics and Policy Implications of the Global Reforms at the End of the Second Millennium. S HANAWEZ Strategies for Promoting Virtual Higher Education: General Considerations on Africa and Asia Index V AN N IEKERK Implementing the Online Learning Communities in Africa: A Unisa Case Study Chika T REVOR S EHOOLE and Teboho M OJA Pedagogical Issues and Gender in Cyberspace Education: Distance Education in South Africa Stanley M OYO Distance Learning and Virtual Education for Higher Education in Africa: Evaluation of Options and Strategies Kouassi Y AO The Chances for Success of the Francophone Centers for Distance Education of the GDLN Network: The Case of the Centre d’Education à Distance de Côte d’Ivoire Akiko K AMOGAWA Higher Education Reform: Challenges towards a Knowledge Society in Malaysia Kazuo K URODA and Hossain Md. C OLLE AND Raul R OMAN ICT4D: A Frontier for Higher Education in Developing Nations Jacques Habib S Y Partnership in Higher Education in Africa: Communications Implications beyond the 2000s J.F. Old and Emergent Issues of Access, Pedagogy, and Knowledge ProductionĮdited by N’Dri T.

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(International studies in sociology and social anthropology, ISSN 0074-8684 v. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cyberspace, distance learning, and higher education in developing countries : old and emergent issues of access, pedagogy, and knowledge production / edited by N’Dri T. Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Rubin Patterson and Masamichi SasakiĬyberspace, Distance Learning, and Higher Education in Developing Countries Old and Emergent Issues of Access, Pedagogy, and Knowledge Production

International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Editorial Board Readership: This book is resourceful in the fields of education, technology, communication, computing & information science, political economy, international studies, development studies, gender studies, and indigenous knowledge systems.Ĭyberspace, Distance Learning, and Higher Education in Developing Countries This volume addresses fundamental questions about the educational process such as: The use of technology in higher education for a holistic educational system for social development The actual technological capacity in Africa and possibilities for virtual higher education Cultural relevance of the curriculum and pedagogy Pedagogy and gender in cyberspace education Perils of externally-driven distance education programs in Africa and the quest for ownership towards development Challenges and opportunities in the making of knowledge society in an Asian context Strategies to promote constructive virtual higher education in Africa and Asia. Amidst the euphoria about the new frontiers of technology sometimes perceived as a panacea for expansion of higher education in developing countries, there is a need to analyze persistent and new grounds of unequal opportunity for access, learning, and the production of knowledge.

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