Education 2015

Education Direct Announces New Share Issue

Education Direct offer individualised home based learning, mediated by computers and supported by freelance academics. The success of this company arose from increased learner autonomy based on the strengths of information technology.

TV Celebrity
Learn in the comfort of your own home. What could be nicer?

Student
I'd like to go to University. IÕd like to leave home and lead a different sort of life. I'd like to take part in political and cultural activities.

Teacher
I believe thereÕs more to education than transmitting course content.

Teacher
Sophisticated technology might make education a commodity. To be bought and sold.

Teacher
The concerns of the company might be for their shareholders, not for their students. Quality might be at risk.

Senga Whiteman
If the software manages the student, I fear the consequences. It may begin with a diagnostic test, followed by the formulation of a learning programme. The students would be managed by the technology. They would be powerless.

Oleg Liber
They tell me it will be better for me, I won't have transport difficulties if I can study at home. That's not enough! I want to be with other students.

Oleg Liber
Autonomous learning implies a new pattern of relationships not a new form of dependency.