PCF5:Governance-Improving Access

Title of session

IMPROVING ACCESS

'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

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

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)