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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 ...
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 ...
Unlocking the Potential of Public Libraries in Supporting Distance Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
This paper examines the place of public libraries in supporting distance learners in Makerere University, exploring the factors which affect utilisation of their services. The study adopted a survey design with 300 B.Ed. ...
Developing Multimedia Enhanced Content to Upgrade Subject Content Knowledge of Secondary School Teachers in Tanzania
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)
The failure rates and lack of interest amongst students in science and mathematics in secondary schools in Tanzania is a serious problem. The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) implemented the project ...
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 ...
From Learning to Empowerment: A Study of Smallholder Farmers in South West Uganda
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-11)
The relationship between education and empowerment has been widely debated in development
literature. In recent times, social capital and community-centric learning have been increasingly recognized as
important variables ...
Positioning extension Massive Open Online Courses (xMOOCs) within the open access and the lifelong learning agendas in a developing setting
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
Recent reports on xMOOCs indicated that underprivileged learners in need for higher education have minimally been reached by these courses. While the open access agenda is needed to reach such learners, most MOOCs were ...
Tracking Students’ Eye-Movements when Reading Learning Objects on Mobile Phones: A Discourse Analysis of Luganda Language Teacher-Trainees’ Reflective Observations
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
Although eye-tracking technologies such as Tobii-T120/TX and Eye-Tribe are steadily becoming ubiquitous, and while their appropriation in education can aid teachers to collect robust information on how students move their ...
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 ...
Developing and Piloting Interactive Physics Experiments for Secondary Schools in Tanzania
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)
Students in secondary schools in Tanzania have been facing difficulties in conducting laboratory experiments. This has been due to the acute shortage of laboratory facilities and poor teaching methodologies. Consequently, ...