期刊名称：International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
印刷版ISSN：1863-0383
出版年度：2010
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：39-43
语种：English
出版社：Kassel University Press
摘要：In the school year of 2003/ 2004, the Regional Department of Education and Culture of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, implemented an innovative project for adult learning. The school EB 3/S Vitorino Nemésio, on Terceira Island, became the first Portuguese school with adult education mediated through the Internet, from elementary level (5th grade) up to the secondary level (12th grade). In this research, we strived to understand up to what extend did media-based adult education supply an effective answer to geographic and demographic issues in the Azores. The results tell us this system appears as an affirmative answer to the geographical and demographic limitations of the Azorean Islands. Nevertheless, there are still unsolved problems, mostly the teachers�?? limitations as far as pedagogic and technical skills on the fields of Information and Communication Technologies and e�??learning are concerned. Adult e-learning also offers other possibilities, on the domain of teachers�?? and other staff�??s continuous training as well as its wider and more effective implementation outside the Region.
关键词：e-learning; distance learning; adult education; low population density areas
