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Open Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: Making Change Happen
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)
Education for All has been a concept at the heart of international development since 1990 and has found its latest instantiation within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as SDG 4, ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable ...
Editorial: Open and Distance Learning for Development: How Can New Technologies and Distance Education Leaders Make an Impact?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)
This issue of JL4D continues our popular series on Leaders in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) across the world, and it also includes major discussions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how they can be ...
MOOCifying Courses: Delivery of a MOOC to Enhance University Course Activities
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
Since 2012 MOOCs have been heralded as a new way of learning outside of formal university programs of study and there has been much speculation regarding their impact. While MOOCs have provided millions of global learners ...
Editorial: Distance Education Leaders Across the World: Contributions to Learning for Development
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)
It is a very great pleasure to introduce a new series to JL4D that focuses on the main leaders in distance education and online learning (ODeL) across the world. Articles will cover six areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, North ...
Motivations, Achievements, and Challenges of Self-Directed Informal Learners in Open Educational Environments and MOOCs
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)
This research targeted the learning preferences, goals and motivations, achievements, challenges, and possibilities for life change of self-directed online learners enrolled in a massive open online course (MOOC) related ...
Education for Sustainable Development: Connecting the Dots for Sustainability
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)
Critical pedagogy, practitioner experience and a regulatory perspective are employed to scrutinize the notion of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as it occurs in the literature. They promote understanding of the ...
Book Review: Using ICTs and Blended Learning in Transforming TVET
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)
At a time when skills development for livelihoods is a key priority for most governments, the potential of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to address many of the challenges facing individuals, ...
Print2Screen Mobile App: Embedding Multimedia in Printed ODL Course Materials Using QR Codes
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)
With the rise of OER and multimedia such as YouTube videos, many academic institutions are becoming mindful of the richness they bring into the teaching and learning process. Given that multimedia resources cannot be ...