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Book Review: Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)
As seen by Otto Peters in his foreword to this substantial volume, the early days of correspondence-based distance education garnered little attention from researchers. As distance education became more widely adopted and ...
Sustainable Development Begins with Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)
This article builds on the report of a meeting of the Memory and Future Club of the Association of Former UNESCO Staff Members held in February 2016 to discuss the impact of UNESCO's work on Education for All. It also ...
MOOC Quality: The Need for New Measures
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)
MOOCs are re-operationalising traditional concepts in education. While they draw on elements of existing educational and learning models, they represent a new approach to instruction and learning. The challenges MOOCs ...
Editorial: Sustainable Development and Inclusive Quality Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)
This issue of JL4D has a particular focus on the sustainable development of inclusive quality education for all. We are also very pleased to launch a new series in JL4D in which members of COL’s Board of Governors and ...
European Figures in Distance and e-Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)
In my contribution on European figures who have really made a difference in distance and e-learning I want firstly to observe that Europe has produced, or at least been the happy host of many of the major figures in our ...
Editorial: Distance Education Leaders Across the World: Contributions to Learning for Development
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)
It is a very great pleasure to introduce a new series to JL4D that focuses on the main leaders in distance education and online learning (ODeL) across the world. Articles will cover six areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, North ...
A Discourse Analysis of Teacher-Trainees’ Abstract Conceptualizations of Emerging Technologies in Teaching to Revitalise Luganda Language
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)
While many young learners of the 21st century have grown up with, and generally prefer to learn using Emerging Technologies (ETs), few teachers of Luganda language graduate with learning experiences of integrating ETs in ...
A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2015)
The organization Helping Our People has been setup in 2011 by a team of education professionals working at the Virtual Centre for Innovative Technologies (VCILT) at the University of Mauritius. In 2009, the VCILT embarked ...
Mobile Learning: Challenges for Teachers of Indian Open Universities
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
“Mobile Learning” (m-Learning) has emerged as a trend in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It is removing the time and geographical barriers for learning by placing learning opportunities at the fingertips of ...
Communication and capacity building to advance adaptation strategies in agriculture in the context of climate change in India
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-04)
Climate change is perhaps the most serious issue that affects food security of a very large number of
human beings and animals. Impacts of climate change will be particularly significant in South Asia
where most of food ...