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Future Proofing Higher Education in the Pacific with Open and Flexible Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
Affordable access to higher education is a major challenge for small Pacific island nations. The University of the South Pacific which is owned and governed by twelve island nations in this region plays a special role in ...
Eliciting In-service Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for 21st-Century Skills in Tanzania
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
The Tanzania Vision 2025 articulates the country's aspiration of becoming an industrialized and middle-income country by 2025. The education sector, which is the main driving force towards realizing this goal, is expected ...
Governance of Open Universities: A Few Observations on Trends in Asia
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
Like all organisations, good governance is a fundamental requirement for the responsible and accountable management of universities in general and open universities in particular. This is to ensure that these (open) ...
A Social Justice Framework for Understanding Open Educational Resources and Practices in the Global South
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
At the heart of the open educational resources (OER) movement is the intention to provide affordable access to culturally relevant education to all. This imperative could be described as a desire to provide education in a ...
Changing our (Dis)Course: A Distinctive Social Justice Aligned Definition of Open Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
This paper investigates the degree to which recent digital Open Education literature is aligned to social justice principles, starting with the first UNESCO definition of Open Educational Resources (OER). A critical analysis ...
Editorial: The Open Education Movement: How Can We Realize its Full Potential?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
Great claims have been made about the potential of the Open Education movement to extend accessible and relevant educational opportunities to all. But how far does the reality of Open Educational Practice match these ...
Reflecting on the Impact of the Open Education Movement
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
This paper critiques the rise and impact of the open education movement, focusing in particular on Higher Education. It considers the impact of adopting more open practices on learning, teaching and research. In terms of ...
Enhancing ICT Adoption and Use Through Change Leadership: Technology Stewardship Training for Caribbean Agricultural Communities of Practice
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
Beginning in 2012, the University of Alberta in partnership with others has been undertaking participatory action research in Sri Lanka and, since 2017, in the Caribbean to foster inclusive innovation through a Joint ...
Book Review: Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
Daniel Wagner’s Learning as development is an important contribution in this area and, as Marlaine Lockheed of the World Bank points out, the volume “humanizes and broadens the discussion of education and development”. ...
Book Review: Higher Education and Open Distance Learning Trajectory in India: Reflections of an Insider
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
The volume provides a critique on the functionalities of the ODL system, especially the open universities, with plausible arguments, and touches upon all the crucial aspects of the system broadly. The author takes advantage ...