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How can we Maximise the Potential of New Technologies to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)
The United Nations’ plan of action for sustainable development notes the immense challenges that we
face, but recognizes that “The spread of information and communications technology [ICT] and global
interconnectedness ...
Using Mobile-based Social Media to Facilitate Interaction and Build Communities through the lens of Ubuntu in Distance Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)
This paper examines how WhatsApp can be used to build learning communities and facilitate interaction, through the lens of Ubuntu – an African concept of humanness, which means that an individual person owes his or her ...
Mobile Language Learning Innovation Inspired by Migrants
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)
Migrants arriving in a country are not always welcome. Similarly, the arrival of new technologies can be perceived as a blot on the familiar landscape of established educational practices. This paper seeks a productive ...
May the Fourth Be with you: Creating Education 4.0
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)
The paper looks back across dominant ways of delivering Higher Education until the present day and then looks forward. There is an approximate continuum described from Education 1.0 through 2.0 to 3.0. Education is mapped ...
Creating Open Online Courses with Learner Representative Partners to Widen Participation in Higher Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)
Open online courses could provide stepping stones for audiences that are under-represented in higher education (HE). However, there are concerns that these instead proliferate forms of exclusion and do not address known ...
Promoting student support in Open and Distance learning using Information and Communication Technologies
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)
The study investigated the use of ICTs in students support in Open and Distance learning (ODL) at Makerere University. The study adopted a survey design with 327 ODL students, and the data from participants were collected ...
Book Review: Guide to Blended Learning by M. Cleveland-Innes with D. Wilton
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)
This compact yet complete Guide to Blended Learning is a welcome addition to the arsenal of useful
resources published every year by the Commonwealth of Learning. Eight chapters, a reference list and
two appendices (one ...
Early Years of the Journal of Learning for Development: A Combination of Bibliometrics and Thematic Analysis
(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 ...