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Willingness to Engage in Open Educational Practices Among Academics in Rwandan Public Higher Education and Responsive Actions
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)
Academics’ engagement in Open Educational Practices (OEPs) is critical for opening up higher education. It is in this perspective that the willingness to engage in such practices among academics in Rwandan public higher ...
Sustaining and Scaling Pedagogic Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Grounded Insights for Teacher Professional Development
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-04)
Developing sustainable and scalable educational initiatives is a key challenge in low-income countries where donor-funded short-term projects are limited by both contextual factors and programme design. In this concept ...
Student Perceptions of the Creation and Reuse of Digital Educational Resources in a Community Development-Oriented Organisation
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-04)
This case study explores students’ perceptions of the creation and reuse of digital teaching and learning resources in their work as tutors as part of a volunteer community development organisation at a large South African ...
Challenges of Adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) in Kenyan Secondary Schools: The Case of Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)
Kenya, like many African countries, has faced enormous challenges in the production of and access to quality relevant teaching and learning materials and resources in primary and secondary school classrooms. This has been ...
Learning for Development in the Context of South Africa: Considerations for Open Education Resources in Improving Higher Education Outcomes
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)
Education is at the core of South Africa’s national development. The National Development Plan recognizes the potential of education to transform individuals and drive attainment of other development goals. The country’s ...
A Critical Review of eLearning Research Trends in Tanzania
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)
This study investigated research trends on eLearning implementation in Tanzania from 2007 to 2017. A total of 74 articles from electronic databases, conference proceedings, and selected electronic journals were reviewed. ...
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 ...
From Policies to Implementation of Open Distance Learning in Rwanda: A Genealogical and Governmentality Analysis
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-04)
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the interplay between policy formulation and implementation in terms of the present historical and cultural practices of open distance learning (ODL) in Rwanda. This paper draws on ...