Browsing by Subject "Learner Support"

Access to Success

Daniel, John (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009-10-10)

Remarks by Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning at the ceremony to launch preparations for the, 6th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning, Chennai, India, 10 October 2009 // The title we have chosen for PCF6 is ...

Adoption of C-DELTA Programme by Sri Lankan Teachers and Students

Karunanayaka, Shironica P; Weerakoon, W M S; Nawaratne, N M R K; Karunanayake, S; Careemdeen, J (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

The Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA) programme provides a framework for fostering digital learning for lifelong learning by developing leaders who can influence others ...

Breaking Higher Education's Iron Triangle: Access, Cost, and Quality

Daniel, John; Kanwar, Asha; Uvalić-Trumbić, Stamenka (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009-04)

Expansion is now the defining trend in the worldwide development of higher education. Some predict that by 2020, 40 percent of the global workforce will be knowledge workers with a need for tertiary qualifications. So the ...

Good Practices in the Teacher Education Programme for Curriculum Design and Learner Support Services of Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University

Chakravarty, Kanta (Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)

Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, the first and only state Open University in North Eastern part of India has been conducting a two-year Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed.) programme through distance ...

A Guide for Implementing a Quality Assurance Institutional Review Tool for Blended Learning

Mohee, Romeela; Perris, Kirk (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-01)

This guide and tool has been designed to support higher education institutions to review, or audit, their readiness to offer blended learning courses. Users of the guide and tool will benchmark their institution’s status ...

Innovations In MOOC Platforms for Improved User Experience

Vadlamani, Aditya; Revathy, K T; Prabhakar, T V (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs quickly established themselves as important components of education. The software for delivering MOOCs is a MOOC management system - a well-known example being openEdX. A MOOC management ...

Learner Support in Open and Distance Learning: Trainers' Kit 006

Commonwealth of Learning; Asian Development Bank; International Extension College (Commonwealth of Learning (COL);Asian Development Bank, 1999)

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are pleased to provide this toolkit for your use and we sincerely hope that it will be a valuable resource for anyone planning and conducting training ...

Learners’ Attitudes, Motivations and Barriers to TEL in Bangladesh – A Case of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST)

Kamal, Mostafa A; Kalpoma, Kazi A; Mahbub, Md. Shahriar; Nayeem, Mir Tafseer (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

echnology-enabled learning (TEL) is an increasingly popular method of teaching learning delivery at the on-campus educational institutions all over the world. Bangladesh is not the exception in this practice too. However, ...

Managing Student Transition from Conventional to Open Schooling: A Case Study of Namibia

Murangi, Heroldt V (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

The provision of school equivalency programme through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) has gained momentum in the 21st century through the establishment of open schools. The latter have now become the model of choice for ...

Open and Distance Learning (ODL): Experiences from Biology Learners of the Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos

Ebabhi, Abosede M; Olubiyo, Oluwaseun A (Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)

This study examined a survey of the challenges facing Biology learners in Distance Learning Institute, University of Lagos. The study was conducted using qualitative and quantitative approaches. The population of study ...

Open School Learners’ Access to Paperless Initiatives at the Bangladesh Open University: Challenges and Barriers

Yeasmin, Sabina; Rahman, Md Mizanoor; Murthy, C R K (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

Open School has been one of the faculties of Bangladesh Open University (BOU) and runs the pre-University programmes for the dropouts. It executes paperless strategies to facilitate open schooling which has challenges and ...

Planning and Management of Open and Distance Learning: Trainers' Kit 003

Commonwealth of Learning; Asian Development Bank; International Extension College (Commonwealth of Learning (COL);Asian Development Bank, 1999)

1 . Background (excerpt) The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are pleased to provide this toolkit for your use and we sincerely hope that it will be a valuable resource for anyone planning ...

Promoting Research on Profiling Learners' Lives to Create Better Open Distance Learning (ODL) Ergonomics

Dzakiria, Hisham (2013-11)

This paper deals with fundamental purpose of improving ergonomic design for open distance learning which may impact students’ learning performance and reduces dropout rates. Within this paper, learning ergonomics refers ...

Responding to the Library Needs of Distance Learners

Daniel, John (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009-11-11)

MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND CULTURE, COBISS 2009, Maribor, Slovenia, 11 November 2009 by Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning // One of the current trends in higher ...

Role of Open and Distance Learning System in Reducing the Stress Among the Learners

Rai, Bal K; Sharma, Oum P (2010-11)

During the past few years it has been observed that a large number of students in the formal system of education have taken very harsh steps even up to suicidal attempts. Moreover, many of the students who have successfully ...

Student Support Services: Toward More Responsive Systems: Report of a Symposium on Student Support Services in Distance Education

Sweet, Robert (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1993)

This report summarises the results of a symposium convened by The Commonwealth of Learning in Delhi between June 21 and 27, 1992. The symposium was entitled "Models of Student Support Systems in Distance Education" and ...