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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 ...
Asian Leaders in Open and Distance Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)
The Asian distance education system is probably the largest in the world. No other continent has seen such a serious policy discourse, as well as determined efforts in its practice, as Asia, since the focus invariably has ...
Leaders in Distance Education in the English-Speaking Caribbean
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)
In examining the provision of distance education in the English-speaking (Commonwealth) Caribbean, it must be acknowledged that, historically, the main providers have been external institutions: the University of London ...
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 ...
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, ...
Editorial: Celebrating the 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum and Distance Education Leaders
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
It is a great pleasure to introduce this special issue of JL4D, which continues our features on Leaders in Distance Education around the world but also has as its main focus a celebration of the 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum ...
Open and Distance eLearning in Asia: Country Initiatives and Institutional Cooperation for the Transformation of Higher Education in the Region
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)
This paper is an attempt to describe the situation of higher education in Asia including the challenges it faced as well as the open and distance elearning initiatives by different countries and universities. Data gathering ...
Education for Development: From Distance to Open Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)
This paper sets out the ways in which technologies for learning have been at the heart of education for development for millennia, not as is sometimes thought only in the last 30 years of the digital revolution. Short case ...
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 ...
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 ...
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