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Quality Assurance in Asian Open and Distance Learning: Policies and Implementation
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)
Open universities have emerged as an innovative pillar in the expansion of access to higher education participation, with single-mode distance education providers broadening access in many countries through economies of ...
Continuity Education in Emergency and Conflict Situations: The Case For Using Open, Distance and Flexible Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)
Emergency and conflict in countries such as Syria, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan have made us more aware of the long-term serial disruption and psychosocial damage faced by people caught up in emergency and ...
Towards Inclusive Education: A Case Study of IGNOU
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)
Towards the end of the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007 -2012), India catered to about 20 per cent of the youth in the age group 17 to 24 years. However, to achieve the threshold level of about 30 per cent by 2020, and address ...
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 ...
Mobile Learning: Readiness and Perceptions of Teachers of Open Universities of Commonwealth Asia
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)
Integration of ‘Mobile Learning’ (m-learning) in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) systems can play a crucial role in reducing the ‘Digital Divide’ and strengthening ‘Democratization of Education’ by providing quality ...
Mobile Learning: Challenges for Teachers of Indian Open Universities
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
“Mobile Learning” (m-Learning) has emerged as a trend in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It is removing the time and geographical barriers for learning by placing learning opportunities at the fingertips of ...
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 ...
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 ...