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The Role Distance Learning has to Play in Offender Education
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
This article looks into the uses of digital and online tools in distance learning to improve literacy and numeracy of offenders in New Zealand prisons. Looking at the benefits and restrictions of digital education within ...
Open and Distance Learning and Information and Communication Technologies- Implications on Formal and Non formal Education.
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2015)
The Population; female (% of total) in Kenya was last reported at 50.05 in 2011, according to a World Bank report published in 2012. Despite this higher percentage, women in Kenya are not well represented in education and ...
Bridging the Gap between Community and Cardiologists
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2015)
Cardiovascular diseases are an emerging cause of morbidity and mortality in India. India produces less than 150 cardiologists annually leading to a gap between the need and availability of trained professionals. Three years ...
Book Review: Chinedu I. O. Okeke & Comfort B.S. Mndebele (2013) Education Reform in the SADC Region: Challenges and Responses in the 21st Century. Scientific & Academic Publishing, USA.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)
This book promised much; a series of vignettes and critical studies of innovations, initiatives and debates across different education sectors in Southern Africa from local academics with a variety of discipline backgrounds ...
Department Involvement in Instructional Materials Development for ODL Study at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)
The teaching and designing of modules at Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) is the principal responsibility of a single body of teaching staff, although some authors and content reviewers could be sourced from elsewhere if ...
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 ...
Learning for Development from Within and Beyond the Reef: Early Implementations of Open Distance Learning and Use of Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Teaching of English in a Small Island State
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)
The following article examines the beginnings of open distance learning and use of OER by the National University of Samoa Faculty of Education to address an identified national need for more teachers and to improve their ...
Book Review: Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice (Notes From the Trenches of Distance Education)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)
In summary, the publication achieves the editors’ purposes. It delineates the state of flexible learning in higher education, circa 2010, within the context of available and emergent digital technologies. The contributions ...
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 ...
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