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Open and Distance eLearning in Asia: Country Initiatives and Institutional Cooperation for the Transformation of Higher Education in the Region

Bandalaria, Melinda D P (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 ...

Learning for Development in the Context of South Africa: Considerations for Open Education Resources in Improving Higher Education Outcomes

Baijnath, Narend (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)

Education is at the core of South Africa’s national development. The National Development Plan recognizes the potential of education to transform individuals and drive attainment of other development goals. The country’s ...

Education for Development: From Distance to Open Education

Tait, Alan W (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 ...

A Critical Review of eLearning Research Trends in Tanzania

Mtebe, Joel S; Raphael, Christina (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)

This study investigated research trends on eLearning implementation in Tanzania from 2007 to 2017. A total of 74 articles from electronic databases, conference proceedings, and selected electronic journals were reviewed. ...

Book Review: Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Perris, Kirk (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)

Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South takes the reader around the world to learn about developments in open educational resources (OER) from a range of emerging world perspectives. Contributions emanate from South ...

Access and Affordability in Higher Education (Pre-print)

Kanwar, Asha; Mishra, Sanjaya (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-06)

The demand for Higher education continues to rise. A key driver of this demand, according to a recent World Bank working paper, is the steady return on investment. The average rate of return on investment for private and ...

Future Proofing Higher Education in the Pacific with Open and Flexible Learning

Naidu, Som; Roberts, Keith J (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)

Affordable access to higher education is a major challenge for small Pacific island nations. The University of the South Pacific which is owned and governed by twelve island nations in this region plays a special role in ...

Eliciting In-service Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for 21st-Century Skills in Tanzania

Mtebe, Joel S; Raphael, Christina (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)

The Tanzania Vision 2025 articulates the country's aspiration of becoming an industrialized and middle-income country by 2025. The education sector, which is the main driving force towards realizing this goal, is expected ...

Governance of Open Universities: A Few Observations on Trends in Asia

Kaushik, Madhulika; Dhanarajan, G (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)

Like all organisations, good governance is a fundamental requirement for the responsible and accountable management of universities in general and open universities in particular. This is to ensure that these (open) ...

A Social Justice Framework for Understanding Open Educational Resources and Practices in the Global South

Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl A; Trotter, Henry (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)

At the heart of the open educational resources (OER) movement is the intention to provide affordable access to culturally relevant education to all. This imperative could be described as a desire to provide education in a ...