%0 Journal Article
%T Editorial ~ Does "Lean Thinking" Relate to Network-based Distance Education
%A Peter S. Cookson
%J International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
%D 2003
%I Athabasca University Press
%X Pointing to the ˇ°objectivised, rationalized, technologically-based interaction,ˇ± Peters (1973) referred to the then prevailing correspondence forms of distance education as ˇ°the most industrialized form of educationˇ± (p. 313). With such features as assembly line methods; division of labor; centralized processes of teaching materials development, production and dispatching; student admissions enrollment systems; automated registration, course allocation, and student support, and personnel management systems, distance education institutions demonstrated management structures and practices utilized in industrial and business organizations. Large numbers of courses and students were thus ˇ°processedˇ± in correspondence, radio, and television-based distance education systems.
%K editorial
%U http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/161/242