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Promoting Developmental Research – a Challenge for African Universities
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
There are two well-known and often-quoted facts about Sub-Saharan Africa. One is that, in spite of significant progress made in recent years, Africa remains the least developed region in the world and is unlikely to achieve ...
Harnessing OER to Develop Teachers: The Guyana Experience
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
The Ministry of Education in Guyana has prioritised increasing the number of qualified teachers by providing opportunities to both pre- and in-service teachers to gain relevant qualifications. This paper describes the ...
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 ...
Feasibility of Open Schooling in Disturbed Societies: The Case of Afghanistan
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
Most countries have enshrined the right to education in their constitution but, in reality, to fulfil this commitment, countries do face a number of challenges. And this is true with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, ...
The Jeffrey Town Model for Community Development
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
The Jeffrey Town model for community development has been effectively applied to the rural community of Jeffrey Town in Jamaica with Information and Computer Technology (ICT) as a key element. The farmer's association is ...
Using Community Radio in a Rural Women’s Post-literacy Programme in Nepal
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
This paper examines the literacy and post-literacy needs of rural women in Nepal, describes a pilot study in using community radio to supplement a classroom-based post-literacy programme for these women, analyses the ...
Technology Leadership and ICT Use: Strategies for Capacity Building for ICT integration
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
Technology leadership is a fairly new concept in school leadership focus. It has become a concern for study in recent times, in tandem with the pedagogical change of integrating ICT in teaching and learning especially in ...
Exploring the Potential of Online Courses to Develop Capacity for Sustainable Development
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
A small team of independent entrepreneurs has developed two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in French, on sustainable development that attracted, respectively, 250+ and 150+ participants. This article describes the ...