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EDUCATIONAL MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, DISTANCE LEARNING, AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES. A POSITION PAPER[1].

Dr Daniel Peraya[2]


Abstract

The author analyses the main concepts describing different types of pedagogical mediated communication related to distance education. This relatively recent field implies a effort to clarify its limits and concepts even more so that the increasing use of information technologies drives research towards a distorted technological direction which hardly escapes marketing forces. The first part of this paper describes and analyses the different forms of educational communication, either face to face, or at a distance, either mediated or non-mediated. The second part takes on understanding and defining the emergence of technologies in the field of distance education, while insisting on educational practice as a taxonomic criterion.

[1] This text is based on the rewritten version in English of a speech given during the symposium "Formazione a distanza professionale e scolastica", organised by the Dipartimento dell'Istruzione e della Cultura et l'Istituto Svizzero di Pedagogia per la Formazione Professionale, Centro Monte Verità, Ascona, held in October 27 and 28 1994. The original French text is published in Jonhnson S. & Schürch D. (1995), La formation à distance. La formazione a distanza, Peter Lang, Berne, 17-43. I would like to express my gratitude to Pierre Dunand Filliol for his precious help in reformulating and clarifying concepts as well as finalising the English text. I also owe a special thank to D. Bossut who gave an initial nudge to the English transcription

[2] Dr Daniel Peraya, Education Technologies Unit (TECFA), University of Geneva (Switzerland), 9 route de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge, Switzerland.

Email: peraya@divsun.unige.ch. Fax: 41.22.342.89.24. Tel.: 41.22.705.96.95.

WWW: http://tecfa/general/tecfa-people/peraya.html.



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