TY - GEN
T1 - Facilitating education in prisons
AU - Fong, Joseph
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Education can effectively reduce prisoners in reoffending, equip them the necessary skills and knowledge to earn their livings. As educational backgrounds of the prisoners vary a lot even they are roughly of the same ages, traditional classroom teaching is not appropriate. On the other hand, distance learning provides students higher flexibility and more choices in organizing the learning paths. Students taking courses in distance learning approach need to read study units and reference materials, such as textbooks and reference books and papers. For usual students, the resources can either accessed via the Internet or at the library in person. However, for prisoners, due to highly restrictive measures in material exchange into and out of the prisons, they are not allowed to access the Internet directly and all materials dispatched must be verified. This paper discusses requirements of prison educations and a framework for facilitating prisoners in taking distance learning. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
AB - Education can effectively reduce prisoners in reoffending, equip them the necessary skills and knowledge to earn their livings. As educational backgrounds of the prisoners vary a lot even they are roughly of the same ages, traditional classroom teaching is not appropriate. On the other hand, distance learning provides students higher flexibility and more choices in organizing the learning paths. Students taking courses in distance learning approach need to read study units and reference materials, such as textbooks and reference books and papers. For usual students, the resources can either accessed via the Internet or at the library in person. However, for prisoners, due to highly restrictive measures in material exchange into and out of the prisons, they are not allowed to access the Internet directly and all materials dispatched must be verified. This paper discusses requirements of prison educations and a framework for facilitating prisoners in taking distance learning. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
KW - Prison education
KW - Teaching material exchange
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-89962-4_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-89962-4_1
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 3540899618
SN - 9783540899617
VL - 5328 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 15
BT - Advances in Blended Learning
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd Workshop on Blended Learning, WBL 2008
Y2 - 20 August 2008 through 22 August 2008
ER -
