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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 ...
Education for Sustainable Development: Connecting the Dots for Sustainability
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)
Critical pedagogy, practitioner experience and a regulatory perspective are employed to scrutinize the notion of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as it occurs in the literature. They promote understanding of the ...
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, ...
Distance Learner's Perspective on User-Friendly Instructional Materials at the University of Zambia
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)
This case study focuses on print-based instructional materials available to distance education learners at the University of Zambia. Using the Visual Paradigm Software, we model distance education learners’ voices into ...
Book Review: Promoting Use and Contribution of Open Educational Resources
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)
The current movement toward Open Educational Resources (OER) has a long historical precedence in the open education movements including that of the provision of equality of educational opportunity, recognising, though, ...
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 ...
Leaders in Distance Education on the African Continent
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
Both the task of identifying leadership in distance education, as well as leadership per se, does not happen in a vacuum. We need to understand the definition of leadership and the processes of identifying leadership in a ...
Higher Education Faculty Attitude, Motivation and Perception of Quality and Barriers Towards OER in India
(African Minds;ROER4D;International Development Research Centre, 2017-10)
The premise of this study is that teachers’ conceptions of the quality of Open Educational Resources (OER) and their attitudes and motivations towards using OER will influence whether and how they use and/or contribute ...
Leaders in Open and Distance Education in North America
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
The North American leaders in open and distance contributed to leadership, theory and research in open and distance education. Early distance education in North America can be traced back to Charles Wedemeyer who was a ...
MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online ...