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Educational Media in Asia

(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2005)

Commonwealth Asia has often been a test bed for experimentation in, and use of, media for education. But this is a region of extremes. At one end are the "Asian tigers" - Malaysia, Singapore and India - that have successfully ...

Vocational Education and Training through Open and Distance Learning

(commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver and Routledge, 2004)

The world needs workers with more and better skills. Conventional apprenticeships and old methods of professional training are not providing enough skilled workers, so governments, companies and colleges are all using open ...

Skills Development Through Distance Education

(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2002)

Open and distance learning provides a means to accessing the skills needed for development. The demands for training from the labour market are very large and ongoing; the demands from young people seeking employment or ...

Library Services to Distance Learners in the Commonwealth: A Reader

(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1997)

While distance education is an effective and versatile means of addressing the problems of human resource development in the Commonwealth, an important concern is adequate and appropriate services to support distance ...

Brave New Women of Asia: How Distance Education Changed Their Lives

(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2001)

The aim of this book of case studies is to inspire and encourage women to participate in open and distance learning. Going through the case studies, potential women learners will see that most of their reservations and ...

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

(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 ...

Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding

(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009)

Peacebuilding, whether at the individual or community level, requires direct contact between human beings. So what role can distance education play? Various contributions, notably the description of the Wan Smolbag Theatre ...

An Overview of Open and Distance Learning: Trainers' Kit 001

(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 ...

Reflections on Ten Years of the Commonwealth of Learning

Dhanarajan, Gajaraj (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2001)

The purpose of this document is to reflect and encourage discussions about The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and its strategic objectives for the ten years beginning July 2000. It draws on COL’s experiences since its ...

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 ...