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Book Review: Education and International Development: Theory, Practice and Issues
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)
Education has been a driving force for developmental activities in all spheres associated with human development. Development as a phenomenon can acquire many forms, depending upon nature, cause and purpose. However, the ...
Book Review: Selwyn, Neil (2013). Education in a Digital World: Global Perspectives on Technology and Education. New York: Routledge.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)
This is a relatively short book but in its 164 pages and eight chapters, Selwyn manages to present a penetrating analysis of the role of educational technology in international development and the often hidden ideologies ...
Book Review: Moon, Bob. (2013). Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development: A Global Analysis. New York: Routledge.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)
This is a wide-ranging, ambitious book that sets out to explore the connectivities between teacher education and the development agenda, in the context of low and middle-income economies. In four distinct sections, it ...
Book Review: Depover, C., Orivel, F. (2012). Developing countries in the elearning era (Vol. 96). Paris: UNESCO IIPE.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)
This review will depart from the standard format of a review, which usually starts by giving a brief summary of the reviewed item. Given that the book is readily available online at this URL and includes a good advance ...
Lecturers’ Experiences of Teaching STEM to Students with Disabilities
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
Innovative teaching is a concept based on student-centred teaching strategies. Access to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects has not been equitable due to use of traditional teaching strategies. ...
Book Review: Dron, Jon and Terry Anderson (2014). Teaching Crowds - Learning and Social Media, Edmonton: AU Press.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)
This volume written by Dron and Anderson consists of ten chapters and is completed by a reference section and a useful index. The preface details the book’s objectives, after briefly explaining the ambiguous nature of its ...
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 ...
The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth
(Routledge, 2009)
The Virtual University for the Small States of the Commonwealth was conceived by Ministers at their triennial Conference of Commonwealth Ministers of Education in 2000. The Commonwealth of Learning was asked to investigate ...
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 ...
eLearning for Development: Using Information and Communications Technologies to Bridge the Digital Divide
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009-06)
eLearning has the potential to make an important contribution to reducing educational deprivation, which in turn can aid progress in achieving development goals. The major obstacles to eLearning are connectivity, equipment, ...