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Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the difference? (Pre-print)
(2015-06)
The emergence of Open Educational Resources (OERs) movement has been adopted by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) as one of the ways to promote access to quality educational materials in the developing countries of the ...
Changing the Tune: MOOCs for Human Development? A Case Study (Pre-print)
(2015-06)
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is covered in critical analysis as well as in popular media as a development exclusively bearing on the Higher Education sector (The Economist, 2014). This term has also acquired an ...
Breaking Higher Education's Iron Triangle: Access, Cost, and Quality
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009-04)
Expansion is now the defining trend in the worldwide development of higher education. Some predict that by 2020, 40 percent of the global workforce will be knowledge workers with a need for tertiary qualifications. So the ...
Mass Tertiary Education in the Developing World: Distant Prospect or Distinct Possibility?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2007-06)
In the coming decades the global profile of tertiary education will be transformed by the multiplication and growth of institutions in the developing world. Age participation rates in tertiary education are below 10% in ...
From Innocence to Experience: the Politics and Projects of Cross-border Higher Education
(Springer, 2008)
Many developing countries are struggling to increase access to higher education (HE) since their Age Participation Rates (APRs) are well below the level that the countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and ...
Transforming Education with OER
(Henley Media Group Limited, 2012)
Expanding access to quality tertiary education is a critical challenge for developing countries. Faced with burgeoning demand for higher education, open and distance learning (ODL) is now deployed by many conventional ...
Foreword
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)
'Learning for Development’ is the overarching theme of the Commonwealth of Learning’s work. The recent Education for All, Global Monitoring Report 2013 also emphasizes the centrality of teaching and learning for development. ...
The Right to Education : A Model for making Higher Education equally accessible to All on the Basis of Merit
(Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2008)
We commend this collaboration between leading journals in the field to promote the role of distance education in achieving the aspiration of Asha Kanwar the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that higher education shall ...