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Personal Life or Biography
Lingstorm gave birth to Dr. Hilary D. Perraton in December 1934. He is an international from Cambridgeshire, and he is 86 years old. This British national was born and raised in the United Kingdom.

Education and Academic Career
Perraton has always been interested in education and has worked in a variety of places. He opted to continue his education after finishing secondary school at Cambridge University, where he received a Commonwealth Scholarship and fellowship to pursue his Masters and eventually Doctorate. This historian began his career as a research associate at the University of London's Institute of Education. Following that, he began his adventure as deputy head of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, where he served for around several years and helped the scholarships commemorate their fiftieth anniversary. Dr. Perraton, in his latter years, was particularly interested in education in poor nations and the establishment of policies for open and remote learning. Dr. Hilary Perraton was also the founding director of the International Research Foundation for Open Learning, a specialised research organization with non-profit status dedicated to supporting and conducting open and distant learning research. Following his retirement as director, he moved to the Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund's College, and Cambridge, where he continued his studies as an associate. For many years, Hilary Perraton pioneered in open and distance learning, and since 1971, he has been involved in its worldwide application. He spent 10 years in the Commonwealth Secretariat, where he was involved in developing educational policy recommendations for Commonwealth governments and institutions and played a key part in the creation of what would become the Commonwealth of Learning. He has also worked as Co-Director for the National and International Extension Colleges in the United Kingdom, a non- profit organization on distance teaching from 1993-01-22 to 1994-02-25. Further, Perraton continued work for two years in Botswana, where he helped the Ministry of Education builds the Botswana Extension College. He worked as an Educational Planner for Distance Learning for a year and a half after leaving the Commonwealth Secretariat. Finally, Perraton worked at the University of the West Indies for a year and a half as an Educational Planner for Distance Education after. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of education and is fully qualified.

Dr. Perraton famous work
Perraton is well known for his famous work in distance education and has published a number of books on open and distance learning and on international education. Distance Education theory Perraton (1988) cited by Simonson et al., (1999) emphasized a theory of distance education based on other researches done. He proposed fourteen statements to convey his theory. Perraton’s Statements one –five portrays how distance education may be used to effectively improve education.

1. Anyone can teach anything using any medium.

2. When the facilitator and the learners have been placed in a room/place altogether at the same time, can fix “staffing ratios” that may pose some challenges in improving education. 3. In some cases, distant education can be less expensive than traditional education, regardless of learners reached or engaging.

4.The economies that remote education may achieve are a function of the degree of education, audience size, medium choice, and production complexity.

5. Distance education may reach learners who would otherwise be deemed inaccessible.

Statements six- nine focused mainly on the necessity to maximize dialog.

6. It is necessary to structure distant education in such a way that allows for discussion.

7.The role of the tutor changes from the giver of knowledge to a facilitator of learning.

8.Using group discussion to provide relevant knowledge to the learners is an excellent technique of distant learning.

9.There are resources in almost all communities that could be used to highly contribute to remote learning for educational and economic improvement.

Perraton's ten-fourteen statements focuses mainly on method:

10. Multimedia programs are tremendously successful than one that focuses on using just one medium.

11.A systems approach is highly recommended when planning distance education.

12.Receiving feedback plays a major role in the system of distance learning.

13.For remote education resources to be effective, learners must engage in frequently and consistently in activities in addition to “reading, watching, or listening.”

14.The most important decision on which the rest is based is whether or not to employ face-to-face learning.

Another profound work done by Dr. Perraton is Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World. Perraton (2006) examines the use of distance education “for basic and non-formal education, schooling, teacher training, and higher education in the context of general educational reform.” He encapsulates a variety of topics and new information on “non-formal education” that comprises of some “mass communication” methodologies to HIV/AIDS education and some work done recently in various countries. This book will help all of us “answer questions to problems and poses key questions”, so that policy makers, stakeholders of education, educators and other professionals who is involved in the implementation and delivery of long-term open and distant learning can consider when constructing the curriculum (Perraton, 2006).

Perraton’s Publication
Some of Perraton’s Publication include:


 * Perraton, H. (2014) A history of Foreign Students in Britain, Springer 288 pages
 * Perraton, H. (2010) The role of open and distance learning Commonwealth of learning: Teacher education (Vancouver )
 * Perraton, H. (2010). Teacher Education: The Role of Open and Distance Learning. Vancouver,. Canada: Commonwealth of Learning
 * Perraton, H. (2009).Learning Abroad: A history of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (Cambridge scholars Publishing
 * Perraton, H. (2007) Open and distance learning in the developing world (Routledge 2000, second edition
 * Perraton, H. (2003) Commonwealth of Learning (COL);International Research Foundation for Open Learning (IRFOL)
 * Perraton, H. (2002) Teacher Education Guidelines: Using Open and Distance Learning. Technology, Curriculum, Cost, Evaluation. ERIC
 * Perraton H. and Creed. C. (2000) Applying New Technologies and Cost-Effective Delivery Systems in Basic Education, International Research Foundation for Open Learning.
 * Perraton, H. (1993) Distance education for teacher training (ed.) (Routledge 411 pages
 * Perraton. H (1988) A Theory for Distance Education. Distance Education: International Perspectives (1st Edition) Routledge, Pages12.
 * Perraton, H. (1982) Alternative routes to formal education (ed.) (Johns Hopkins University Press