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PublicationReport on a Round Table on Training Distance Educators( 1990)Papers Presented at a Round Table on Training Distance Educators: COL Headquarters, Canada, 2 - 6 April 1990. // Series formerly called "Perspectives on Teacher Education." Renamed to "Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning." -
PublicationReport of the Training Consultancy in Distance Education Course Development for the Pacific Region:August and September 1990: Suva and Port Vila( 1990)This report describes the details and outcomes of a project undertaken by the Commonwealth of Learning during August and September 1990 to provide staff development training in distance education course development to distance educators employed in developing Commonwealth countries of the Pacific region.
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PublicationAdministrative Structures for Distance Education( 1991)The purpose of this book is to help anyone considering the use of distance education and trying to decide how it should be organised. The acclaimed success of the world's 25+ open universities gives the impression that learning at a distance demands the establishment of an open university. But, in practice, there are many different ways in which governments, universities, or private bodies can teach students at a distance. The book explores and compares the options that may be possible.
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PublicationDistance Education at the University of the South Pacific( 1991)Report of the review of distance education at the University of the South Pacific initiated towards the end of 1989
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PublicationDistance Education in India( 1992)There are over one hundred conventional universities in India, and five Open Universities have also been started. The total student enrolment in the Open system is ten percent of all enrolments in higher education. That proportion will undoubtedly increase. In view of the importance being attached to Distance Education in India, it was felt valuable to look at the experience of this country. // This monograph is based on a paper originally prepared for the Asian Development Bank Round Table Conference on Distance Education, Islamabad, Pakistan (Nov. 6-8, 1989). The paper was later updated and expanded to form this case study. // Series formerly called "Perspectives on Teacher Education." Renamed to "Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning."
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PublicationDistance Education in Single and Dual Mode Universities: Papers Presented to a Symposium on Reforms in Higher Education( 1992)The papers in this collection were prepared for a symposium on reforms in higher education, with particular emphasis on distance education, held in New Delhi, India, in late August, 1992, and sponsored by The Commonwealth of Learning and the University Grants Commission, India. // Series formerly called "Perspectives on Teacher Education." Renamed to "Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning."
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PublicationStudent Support Services: Toward More Responsive Systems: Report of a Symposium on Student Support Services in Distance Education( 1993)This report summarises the results of a symposium convened by The Commonwealth of Learning in Delhi between June 21 and 27, 1992. The symposium was entitled "Models of Student Support Systems in Distance Education" and consequently was oriented more towards policy than practice. Nevertheless, the deliberations were anchored in the personal experiences of participants and their institutions, which lent an especially lively tone to the discussions, These centred on the institutional case studies presented by representatives from the four open universities in India, the new distance education programmed at Bangladesh's national university, and the institutions in two non-Commonwealth countries, Thailand and Indonesia,
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PublicationRoles and Competencies in Distance Education( 1993)This report is designed to be used by planners, policy makers and other decision makers who are instrumental in setting up and/or managing a distance education system, and who are planning for staffing and training needs. It provides guidelines on the basic tasks involved in managing a distance education programme and the staffing required to handle those tasks.
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PublicationTeacher Education in Science, Mathematics and Technical/Vocational Subjects( 1993)The quality of education depends to a large extent on the quality of the teachers involved in its development and delivery. Teacher training is a need for all countries of the world. Nowhere is the need felt more keenly than in the provision of teachers for science, mathematics and technical/vocational subjects. The problem is exacerbated in developing countries, which must simultaneously deal with shortcomings in other areas. The Commonwealth of Leaming (COL) recognises the problem and is committed to finding and applying new methods of teacher education and training to complement conventional systems and to help accelerate solutions. This was the main focus of the Round Table meeting convened by COL in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1992, and attended by 22 experienced educators drawn from 13 countries of the Commonwealth. In order to share the participants’ ideas and experiences more widely, it was considered appropriate to publish the papers and proceedings of the meeting in this form. // Series renamed to "Perspectives on Distance Education."
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PublicationCompendium of Activities 1994( 1994)COL used to produce this "A Compendium of Activities" to provide a detailed account of the work and accomplishments of the organisation. This latest (and last!) version coincided with, and complemented, reporting by COL to the 12th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) which took place in November 1994 in Islamabad, Pakistan. In addition to being a reporting instrument, the Compendium also served as a reference for practitioners, with an interest in distance learning in Commonwealth countries, in the major areas on which COL’s programmes are focussed.
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PublicationEnvironmental Education in Small Island Developing Country( 1994)The United Nations Assembly's decision to dedicate the year of 1994 as the UN Year of Small Island States and the subsequent decision to organise a conference at the highest level to discuss aspects of environment and development in small island nations have both been greeted with sympathy by the international community. There is a consensus that this is a unique opportunity to holistically discuss the various environmental, social and economical issues that are matters of concern to small island nations, and to make these concerns widely known. In this context, a unique opportunity is being provided with regard to the wide debate as to the role of environmental education in the environmental conservation process, and to an analysis of the current strategies to promote the environmentally-sound economic development of small island developing nations
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PublicationColleges Reaching Out: Report on the Status of Distance Education in Canadian Colleges and Technical Institutes( 1994)This report provides a "snap-shot" of the scope and breadth of distance education activities in the college sector in Canada. The first section presents the institutional and programming information collected through a survey distributed to the 120 Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) member colleges. The second section illustrates notable approaches to programming, technology applications and other areas through case studies and issue papers drawn from a cross-section of colleges and regions. (41 pages, plus appendices)
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PublicationQuality Assurance in Higher Education: Symposium Papers( 1994)This collection of essays is part of two approaches to dealing with the issue of quality assurance in distance education. The first approach arises from the agreement on research signed at the sixteenth world congress of the International Council on Distance Education (ICDE), held in Bangkok in Novemeber, 1992, by ICDE and The Commonwealth of Learning (COL). This agreement set up a mechanism under which the two organisations could begin to approach jointly a matter contained in the mandate of each, the encouragement of research in distanced education. The second approach is a more focussed one aimed at work in a particular country. // Series formerly called "Perspectives on Teacher Education." Renamed to "Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning."