01. Research & Publications: Recent submissions

    • Open Universities in the Commonwealth: At a Glance 

      Mishra, Sanjaya (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-08)
      In the absence of comparative data about open universities, the current impact of ODL institutions is not clear. To develop a database of open universities in the Commonwealth, COL initiated a survey. The present report ...

    • Newsletter of Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (vol. 3, no. 2) 

      Rasool, Shahid; Panigrahi, Manas R; Mishra, Sanjogita (Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), 2017-07)
      CEMCA newsletter published July 2017

    • Report of the Baseline Study on Technology-Enabled Learning at the National University of Samoa 

      Mow, Ioana C (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
      The report presents the status of technology-enabled learning at National University of Samoa (NUS). It is based on data collected from the teachers and students of NUS and also based on an infrastructure audit at the ...

    • The Status of ICT in Education in Saint Lucia 

      Millar, Harvey (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
      ​This report examines the status of ICT in education in Saint Lucia. The study involved the examination of desk literature, followed by a survey of teachers, principals and students; 52 principals, 107 teachers and 15 ...

    • Report of the Massive Open Online Course on Introduction to Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL MOOC) 

      Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Ostashewski, Nathaniel; Wilton, Daniel; Murphy, JoAnne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL);Athabasca University, 2017-07)
      ​This is a report on the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Introduction to Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL) organised by Athabasca University, Canada in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning from January 9 ...

    • Connections (vol. 22, no. 2) 

      McGowan, Sparrow; Prakash, Puja (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
      COL Newsletter published July 2017.

    • Leaders in Open and Distance Education in North America 

      Ally, Mohamed (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
      The North American leaders in open and distance contributed to leadership, theory and research in open and distance education. Early distance education in North America can be traced back to Charles Wedemeyer who was a ...

    • MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation 

      Wolfenden, Freda; Cross, Simon; Henry, Fiona (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
      There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online ...

    • 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 ...

    • Leaders in Distance Education on the African Continent 

      Prinsloo, Paul (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
      Both the task of identifying leadership in distance education, as well as leadership per se, does not happen in a vacuum. We need to understand the definition of leadership and the processes of identifying leadership in a ...