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A theoretical framework for rural knowledge centers
(David Publishing, 2011)
Exponential growth in ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and establishment of RKCs (Rural Knowledge Centers) have been fast spreading across the globe. In the continuous process, there are tens of thousands ...
Addressing the Successes and Failures of the Campaign for Universal Primary Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2010)
The report card of the global campaign to achieve universal primary education (UPE), which began at the Jomtien Conference in 1990 and was reinforced by the Dakar Forum in 2000, is a blend of success and failure. Both ...
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 ...
Dual-Mode Universities in Higher Education: Way Station or Final Destination?
(Routledge, 2012-01)
With online learning it became much easier for academic staff to produce versions of their campus courses for distance students and to interact with them by e-mail and other web tools. This promise of a direct relationship ...
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 ...
Transforming Education with OER
(Henley Media Group Limited, 2012)
Expanding access to quality tertiary education is a critical challenge for developing countries. Faced with burgeoning demand for higher education, open and distance learning (ODL) is now deployed by many conventional ...
The Nexus between Stakeholder Engagement and Instructional Quality: The Case of The UWI Open Campus’s Awareness and Professional Development Towards a Quality Support Framework
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)
With changes in the global economic landscape, universities are employing adjunct staff to instruct their online courses in new and expanding programs. Concomitantly, the growth of information and communication technology ...
Curriculum Transaction in NIOS: Overcoming the Limitations of Packaged Instructions
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)
Low learning outcomes in Indian schools and the promotion of rote learning by their instructional systems have been documented time and again. Schools are therefore required to adopt India’s National Curriculum Framework ...