PCF5:Governance-Improving Access

Title of session
IMPROVING ACCESS

Session details

 * Date: 2008-08-16
 * Time: 14:00 – 15:20
 * Room: 801

Session papers

 * 'Security Issues within prison and health open and distance learning programmes by Dr Anne Adams
 * 'Distance Education as a strategy for eliminating disparity in Pakistan by Dr Irshad Hussain

Key Issues that arose in the session

 * 1.	Prison Services and Health Services need to understand Online ODL programmes. Fear of Online ODL undermining Secure Organisational systems stops OL in Prisons and hospitals.
 * 2.	Distance Education, having good infrastructure4, can address the issue of gender disparity through community mobilisation at community level.
 * 3.	Community driven (bottom up) approach detected during both papers.
 * 4.	Responses from previous sessions were reflected by participants on ODL.
 * 5.	Related issues in culture were explained with great care and accepted objectively.
 * 6.	Links to marginalised communities in Pakistan were mentioned as part of women who did not have the time to study due to family obligations.
 * 7.	ODL does already influences cultures.
 * 8.	ODL is seen as part of education and education does prevent conflict by understanding contextual problems.
 * 9.	Gender disparities can be reduced by knowledge that is departed on the internet, such as in Pakistan.
 * 10.	THERE DOES NOT EXIST A GRAND NARRATIVE FOR OPEN DISTANCE E-LEARNING AND OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES TO CHANGE ATTITUDES

Points for future action (Policy, recommendations, commitments etc.)

 * 1.	E-mail addresses should be printed with the names of presenters in the conference procedures
 * 2.	All abstracts must be uploaded on the Wikieducator
 * 3.	OUR GROUP STRONGLY RECOMMEND THE REVIEWING AND PUBLICATION OF PAPERS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER (ISBN)