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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...

Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe

Hirtz, Sandy (Commonwealth of Learning (COL);BCcampus, 2008)

Education for a Digital World contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary ...

Education for Development: From Distance to Open Education

Tait, Alan W (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)

This paper sets out the ways in which technologies for learning have been at the heart of education for development for millennia, not as is sometimes thought only in the last 30 years of the digital revolution. Short case ...

Education for Digital World - Global Efforts

Kanwar, Asha; Panda, Santosh (Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2008)

With Prof. Asha S. Kanwar, Vice President & Programme Director Commonwealth of Learning, Canada. Interviewer - Prof. S. Panda. Duration: 22:34.

Education for Sustainable Development: Connecting the Dots for Sustainability

Gokool-Ramdoo, Sushita; Rumjaun, Anwar B (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)

Critical pedagogy, practitioner experience and a regulatory perspective are employed to scrutinize the notion of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as it occurs in the literature. They promote understanding of the ...

Education for the Future: A Generic Version of the Report of a Caribbean Task Force on Education

Commonwealth of Learning (commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1995)

Through analyses undertaken by a Caricom Advisory Task Force, a far-reaching policy document was produced which outlines a coherent approach to educational development in the Caribbean region. As the document contains much ...

An Education Forum at Future CHOGMs? Outcomes from the Consultation Process

Wright, Alex (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-01)

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has undertaken a consultation process to study the possibility of organising an Education Forum at future Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGMs), in keeping with the request ...

Education in Sierra Leone with Particular Reference to Open and Distance Learning and Information and Communication Technologies

Alghali, A M; Turay, Edward D A; Thompson, Ekundayo J D; Kandeh, Joseph B A (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2005)

Sierra Leone became a British Colony after Portuguese explorers became the first Europeans to arrive in 1492. It gained independence in 1961 and became a republic in 1971. The country has experienced a mixture of democratic, ...

Educational App Development Toolkit for Teachers and Learners

Abeywardena, Ishan S (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-11)

The Educational App Development Toolkit for Teachers and Learners is designed to introduce the basic and some intermediate concepts of Android app development on the App Inventor (AI2) platform. It provides hands-on ...