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Quality and Effectiveness of Distance Education in Secondary and Higher Secondary Programmes of Bangladesh Open University – A Learner-Based Evaluation
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)To materialize Bangladesh’s goal for becoming a middle-income country by 2021 requires creation of techo-based large educated workforce. Due to socio-economic drawbacks a big number of students drop out from conventional ... -
Quality and Equity in learning: A Comparative Study on Students Performance In Masai Technical Training Institute
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Education is facing drastic change, with open, distance and flexible learning taking the centre stage. The increased demand of education among the adult learners and the learners in informal sector is changing the way ... -
Quality Control Measures at Institute of Distance Education, University of Swaziland, Swaziland
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)The system of distance education is a ray of hope for mass education among people of Swaziland. It would attract a large number of students for different programmes in future, and, may fulfil the country’s requirements of ... -
Quality of Learning Resources of Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration Programme: A Case of Bangladesh Open University
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Commonwealth Executive Master of Business Administration (CEMBA) programme is a one of the prestigious programme in Bangladesh for making skilled professionals. For ensuring better learning engagements quality of learning ... -
Reach, Effectiveness and Listenership of Community Radio- A Study by National Institute Of Open Schooling (NIOS)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Mass communication has been playing a great role in education, and particularly in open and distance education. Besides, many means of mass communication, community radio has emerged as one of the best means to educate ... -
Resource Architecture in the Virtual Digital Learning Landscape (RAVD)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)As technology becomes pervasive, the teaching and learning landscape is now capable of presenting an interoperable and seamless learning architecture to connect, integrate, and share learning resources. Although we have ... -
The Role of the Commonwealth Education Hub in Sustainable Development
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)The Commonwealth Education Hub portal is a project that learns and adjusts as it progresses. The project allows the testing of knowledge-sharing approaches. The Education Hub offers four key services: collect – access to ... -
Running NOUN-MOOC on MOOkit Platform: Insight from Collaboration Between Institute of Technology Kanpur and National Open University of Nigeria
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)As part of its effort to embrace the Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) initiative and specifically to employ it as tool to improve access and equity in education, the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) launched ... -
Separating Rhetoric from Reality: The Process of Institutionalizing OER Practices at African Universities
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)OER Africa is working with four universities in Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa to support the deepening of pedagogical practices that employ open educational resources (OER) and use information and communication ... -
Skill Development Through MOOC for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: A Review of Policies in the Asian Commonwealth Countries
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Economic growth of the Commonwealth countries in Asia depends on productivity and the availability of the skilled human resources. About 70 per cent of the Commonwealth’s two billion citizens belong to South Asia. Skilled ... -
Social Interactions Using Social Media in Open and Flexible Distance Learning System
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)This paper discusses the status and use of social media in India with an attempt to throw light on the need to use social media in Open and Flexible Distance Learning Systems (OFDL) systems in the country. // Education and ... -
Social Media as Massive Open Online Resource (MOOR) and the Performance of Francophones Learning Spoken English in Cameroon: A Case Study Of The Trilingual Students in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages, University Of Dschang
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)This paper examines the performances of students using social media like Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Linked In, and SMS in learning English in the context of multilingual Cameroon. Social media refers to activities, ... -
Solar-Powered Floating Schools in Flood-Prone Bangladesh: An Inclusive and Sustainable Solution Towards Greater Equality
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)One fifth of Bangladesh floods annually during the monsoon season, but extreme floods cover up to two thirds. In recent years, the flooding has become more severe. During the monsoon period, thousands of schools are forced ... -
Students’ Learning Outcomes in Online Courses: Continual Quality Improvement
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Much has been written to enumerate the reasons for the success and failures of online learning, and the common view is that the relative success and failure of a student is caused by a combination of three major factors: ... -
Students’ Voices on Flexible Learning Materials in a Fixed Learning System
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)With the variety of faculty, wide range of expertise and the continuous review process involved in producing flexible distance learning materials- the quality of output should not be debated. But there are other issues ... -
A Study of Mediating Effect of Attitude on Perceived Ease of Use and Students Intention to Use Online Learning Platform Among Online Learning Institutions in Malaysia
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)The purpose of this study is to develop an understanding on the mediating effect of attitude on perceived of use and students’ intention to use online learning platform in Malaysia. In this study, Perceived ease of use is ... -
A Study on the Adoption and Integration of OER Materials in Self-Instructional Course Development
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Creation of large number of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and adoption and integration of such resources for classroom teaching and creation of new learning materials are expected to impact on creation of quality ... -
Summary of the PCF8 Online Discussion Forums
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)In order to kick-start momentum for the eighth Pan-Commonwealth Forum (PCF8), the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM) organised four online discussion forums around PCF8’s sub-themes. We used ... -
Sustainable Development Through ODL: The Experience of KKHSOU
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)When the universities in a state like Assam are trying to take cognizance of the needs of the learners by carefully structuring the curriculum of the different academic programmes, they should also pay heed to the changes ... -
Teacher Perceptions of Open Distance Learning in Samoa
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)This paper examines in service teachers perceptions of the effectiveness of the Open Distance Learning (ODL) as an alternative mode for training and upgrading primary school teachers located in remote areas of Samoa. A ...
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