Sir John Daniel has made a new contribution to educators with a book on the plans, actions, technology, and methods by which humankind has a hope of achieving the goal of providing education for all. Education for all in Daniel’s book is the name of a broad set of international programs. It has emerged from high-level meetings of government officials, particularly representatives of education authorities.

Daniel served as president and CEO of  Commonwealth of Learning (COL) from 2004 to 2012. He is now working on a variety of international projects, notably as Education Master in the Beijing DeTao Masters Academy, China and Chair of the UWC (United World Colleges) International Board.

• SYNOPSIS: Education for All (EFA) has been a top priority for governments and intergovernmental development agencies for the last twenty years. So far the global EFA movement has placed its principal focus on providing quality universal primary education (UPE) for all children by 2015.

The latest addition to The Open and Flexible Learning series, this book addresses the new challenges created by both the successes and the failures of the UPE campaign. This book advocates new approaches for providing access to secondary education for today’s rapidly growing population of children and young adults and examines:

-the creation and expansion of Mega-Schools, which combine distance learning and community support and have a proven track record of increasing access at scale

-how to prepare the ten-million new teachers that are required to achieve Education for All by 2015 by focusing on classroom-based in-service training

-strategies for using technology to scale up distance education cost-effectively

-the creation of a twenty-first century educational ecosystem that integrates open schooling and teacher education with communities and their school systems

-successful examples of open schools and teacher education programmes operating at scale around the world.

Readers will be delighted to find that Sir John Daniel, bestselling Routledge author of Mega Universities and Knowledge Media, delivers another insightful and practical book on educational technology. Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers will be of interest to all who are concerned by the central educational challenge of our times: providing secondary education to tens of millions of young people around the world.

• VIDEO: Sir John Daniel's interview: "Marc Perelman meets Sir John Daniel to talk about the open educational resources movement. It’s an initiative that provides online teaching, learning, and research resources but also helps developing countries improve access to education and training".