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Report on a Round Table on Training Distance Educators

Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1990)

Papers Presented at a Round Table on Training Distance Educators: COL Headquarters, Canada, 2 - 6 April 1990. // Series formerly called "Perspectives on Teacher Education." Renamed to "Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning."

Report of the Training Consultancy in Distance Education Course Development for the Pacific Region:August and September 1990: Suva and Port Vila

Robertson, William D; Mattock, Dale L (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1990)

This report describes the details and outcomes of a project undertaken by the Commonwealth of Learning during August and September 1990 to provide staff development training in distance education course development to ...

Administrative Structures for Distance Education

Perraton, Hilary (Commonwealth of Learning (COL);Commonwealth Secretariat, 1991)

The purpose of this book is to help anyone considering the use of distance education and trying to decide how it should be organised. The acclaimed success of the world's 25+ open universities gives the impression that ...

Appraisal of Distance Education at the University of the West Indies: First Impressions

Renwick, William (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1991)

Distance Education at the University of the South Pacific

Renwick, William; King, St. Clair; Shale, Douglas (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1991)

Report of the review of distance education at the University of the South Pacific initiated towards the end of 1989

Distance Education in Single and Dual Mode Universities: Papers Presented to a Symposium on Reforms in Higher Education

Mugridge, Ian (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1992)

The papers in this collection were prepared for a symposium on reforms in higher education, with particular emphasis on distance education, held in New Delhi, India, in late August, 1992, and sponsored by The Commonwealth ...

Distance Education in India

Singh, Abhimanyu (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1992)

There are over one hundred conventional universities in India, and five Open Universities have also been started. The total student enrolment in the Open system is ten percent of all enrolments in higher education. That ...

Teacher Education in Science, Mathematics and Technical/Vocational Subjects

Emmal, Marline; Kinyanjui, Peter E (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1993)

The quality of education depends to a large extent on the quality of the teachers involved in its development and delivery. Teacher training is a need for all countries of the world. Nowhere is the need felt more keenly ...

Roles and Competencies in Distance Education

O'Rourke, Jennifer (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1993)

This report is designed to be used by planners, policy makers and other decision makers who are instrumental in setting up and/or managing a distance education system, and who are planning for staffing and training needs. ...

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 ...

Environmental Education in Small Island Developing Country

Filho, Walter L (1994)

The United Nations Assembly's decision to dedicate the year of 1994 as the UN Year of Small Island States and the subsequent decision to organise a conference at the highest level to discuss aspects of environment and ...

Compendium of Activities 1994

Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1994)

COL used to produce this "A Compendium of Activities" to provide a detailed account of the work and accomplishments of the organisation. This latest (and last!) version coincided with, and complemented, reporting by COL ...

Colleges Reaching Out: Report on the Status of Distance Education in Canadian Colleges and Technical Institutes

McWilliams, Patricia (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1994)

This report provides a "snap-shot" of the scope and breadth of distance education activities in the college sector in Canada. The first section presents the institutional and programming information collected through a ...

The Funding of Open Universities

Mugridge, Ian (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1994)

A collection of case studies, based on papers prepared for the COL/International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) symposium on funding and costing of open universities at the Asian Association of Open Universities ...

Open Schooling: Selected Experiences

Mukhopadhyay, Marmar; Phillips, Susan (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1994)

The first open school programme is believed to have begun in 1914 as correspondence lessons prepared at the request of a parent in Beech Forest in the Otway Mountains in Australia. By 1916, a special correspondence branch ...

Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Symposium Papers

Deshpande, Prakash M; Mugridge, Ian (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1994)

This collection of essays is part of two approaches to dealing with the issue of quality assurance in distance education. The first approach arises from the agreement on research signed at the sixteenth world congress of ...

Key Partners in Sustainable and Equitable Development: Resource materials on women and sustainable development

Ofosu-Amaah, Waafas (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1994)

This report responds to Commonwealth mandates by producing training materials on women and sustainable development. It extrapolates, from selected "success stories," the common lessons for learning and teaching about the ...

European Distance Education: A Handbook of Current European Programmes and Networks

Jenkins, Janet (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1994)

The purpose of this handbook is to provide accessible information to personnel in ministries, educational institutions and other bodies concerned with education and training in order to inform them of new developments in ...

Water Safe: An Introduction to Water Quality Issues

Williams, Elizabeth (commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1994)

A coursebook for a self-study programme that will help in the understanding of the importance of good, clean, and safe water in everyday lives, but particularly when used in the preparation of food.

Directory of Courses and Materials for Training in Distance Education

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

Revised, and updated in both content and design, this directory describes materials and programmes that have been developed by distance education trainers, working at all levels and sectors of public educational systems ...