Browsing 01. Research & Publications by Title

E-Learning: A Guidebook of Principles, Procedures and Practices

Naidu, Som (Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), 2006)

This guidebook will help readers to systematically approach their engagement with e-learning, irrespective of the educational sector or level within which they may be working. The content of this guidebook has been carefully ...

Early Years of the Journal of Learning for Development: A Combination of Bibliometrics and Thematic Analysis

Mishra, Sanjaya (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)

The paper analyses the contributions to Journal of Learning for Development (JL4D) from volume one to five using bibliometrics and content analysis techniques. Analysing the 91 papers in various categories of JL4D, the ...

Editing Distance Education Materials

Swales, Christine (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2000)

Distance education materials take a learner-centred approach rather than the traditionally content-centred approach of textbooks. The key is the student. Learners need to become involved and motivated by the materials and ...

Editorial

Tait, Alan (Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)

In a world crowded by journals, what is the need for a new one? The worlds of education and development live two separate lives, and educators in particular too often limit their interest to the educational systems within ...

Editorial: Celebrating the 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum and Distance Education Leaders

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)

It is a great pleasure to introduce this special issue of JL4D, which continues our features on Leaders in Distance Education around the world but also has as its main focus a celebration of the 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum ...

Editorial: COVID-19 Pandemic and Innovations in Institutional Transformation, Technology and Pedagogy

Panda, Santosh (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)

Given the concern and the context, the Editorial Board of JL4D at the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) took a considered decision to devote its November 2020 issue to ‘Covid and Learning for Development’. The 18 papers and ...

Editorial: Distance Education Leaders Across the World: Contributions to Learning for Development

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)

It is a very great pleasure to introduce a new series to JL4D that focuses on the main leaders in distance education and online learning (ODeL) across the world. Articles will cover six areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, North ...

Editorial: Furthering Research and Development in Technology-Enabled Learning

Panda, Santosh (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-03-20)

Considerable attention has been paid, in the recent past, to technology-enabled learning (TEL) and how digital technologies have been facilitating teachers, learners and trainers in transforming the ways they approach ...

Editorial: Meeting sustainable development goal 4: Some key contributions

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-04)

The articles in this issue all provide important contributions towards meeting SDG4. They highlight the role of informal learning (Kidu), community development (Pascevicius & Hodgkins-Williams), Open Educational Resources ...

Editorial: Open and Distance Learning for Development: How Can New Technologies and Distance Education Leaders Make an Impact?

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)

This issue of JL4D continues our popular series on Leaders in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) across the world, and it also includes major discussions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how they can be ...

Editorial: Open Education, Open Educational Practice and the Concept of Openness: Issues and Challenges

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)

All the articles in this issue contribute to the debates surrounding Open Education, including Open Universities, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

Editorial: Professional Development and Capacity Building in Learning for Development

Panda, Santosh (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-07-20)

The work of the Commonwealth of Learning, as also that of many governmental and institutional initiatives, has been, in the past, based on ‘policy-capacity-technology’ as a theory of change framework within which national ...

Editorial: Researching Technology-Enabled Teaching, Learning and Training

Panda, Santosh (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

In a recent publication, Mishra and Panda (2020) reasserted ‘policy-capacity-technology’ as a theory of change model in effective implementation of technology-enabled learning (TEL), and at the same time underlined “to ...

Editorial: Sustainable Development and Inclusive Quality Education

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)

This issue of JL4D has a particular focus on the sustainable development of inclusive quality education for all. We are also very pleased to launch a new series in JL4D in which members of COL’s Board of Governors and ...

Editorial: Technology-Enabled Learning: OER, MOOCs, and other TEL Designs

Panda, Santosh (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-03-18)

In a recent work, published by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (Panda & Mishra, 2020), we critically reflected upon the future of technology-enabled learning (TEL) and how to mainstream TEL into teaching-learning and ...

Editorial: The Open Education Movement: How Can We Realize its Full Potential?

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)

Great claims have been made about the potential of the Open Education movement to extend accessible and relevant educational opportunities to all. But how far does the reality of Open Educational Practice match these ...

Education Development Challenges and Potential for Flexible and Open Learning in Tuvalu for Department of Education, Ministry of Education Youth and Sports

Raturi, Shikha (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-03)

The objective was to conduct a country study on the education development challenges and potential for flexible and open learning in Tuvalu in line with the national priorities given in the national development plan Te ...