Browsing by Subject "ICT in Education"

C-DELTA: Preparing Students as Digital Leaders in Bangladesh

Khan, Shahnewaz (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

Bangladesh is one of the world’s most densely populated countries with a population of 162 million. The country has made noteworthy progress in the areas of access to primary schools and gender parity in the recent years. ...

Can Mobile Phones Be Used To Improve The Quality Of Learning In Open Schooling?

Mitra, Sushmita (2010-11)

Mobile phones have become ubiquitous. Almost anyone who can have a mobile phone has one. The amount of information and access to it has grown exponentially, thereby the potential for using varied resources for instruction ...

Can we really learn from mobile handheld devices?

Gaskell, Anne (2010-11)

There is much evidence that mobile technologies are playing an increasing role in education. For the most part, this role has been limited to administrative reminders and some elements of learner support particularly in ...

Capacity Building in ICT Across Nine Developing Countries

Greenop, Kirston (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

PCF5: Cross-Cutting Themes // Mindset Network is a non government organisation (NGO) which creates open digital educational content that is aligned to national policies and curricula. The digital format of this content ...

Capacity Building of the mid-level executives through BBA programme of BOU: Efficacy and Efficiency Issues

Rahman, Mahfuzur; Kamal, Mostafa A (2013-11)

In the present wave of rapid technological innovations, changing market conditions and the emergence of a knowledge-based society, it is almost impossible for a country or economy to keep itself separated from the rest of ...

Caribbean Regional Capacity Building Workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER): Policies and Practices

Commonwealth of Learning, / (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-01-29)

A regional capacity building workshop on ‘Open Educational Resources: Policies and Practices’ was organised by COL in collaboration with UNESCO, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Ministry of Education, ...

The Changing Faces of Virtual Education

Farrell, Glen M (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2001)

This study is a report on some of the major developments that are influencing the evolution of virtual education. It examines not only the nature of these developments, but also the implications for the use of virtual ...

Children and the Internet: Learning, in the Times to Come

Mitra, Sugata (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)

It is proposed that the purpose of education is to enable people to live happy, healthy and useful lives — now and in the future. A curriculum and framework for children’s education is derived from the above purpose. Using ...

Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action: An Evaluation

Brown, Cheryl (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-12)

The aim of C-DELTA was to develop participants’ digital literacy, knowledge of digital education and ability to lead and implement digital education initiatives in their various contexts. To achieve this, and its overall ...

Commonwealth of Learning: Rethinking Education for Innovation, Growth, Innovation in a Post-Covid World

Kanwar, Asha (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-04-28)

"Commonwealth of Learning: Rethinking Education for Innovation, Growth, Innovation in a Post-Covid World", presentation of COL progress report and workplan by Professor Asha Kanwar, COL President & CEO, at the 21st Conference ...

Congratulatory Remarks

Aguti, Jessica N (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2014-09-13)

Transcript from a speech given at the Launch of the Diploma in ELT with ICT Skills for Upper Primary Teachers, Gauhati University, India, 13 September 2014. Presented by Dr. Jessica Norah Aguti, Education Specialist, Teacher ...

Connections (vol. 13, no. 1)

Wilson, Dave; Speirs, Karen (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008-02)

COL newsletter published February 2008

Connections (vol. 4, no. 3)

Wilson, Dave (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1999-10)

COL newsletter published October 1999

Covid-19 - A Two-Week Transition from Campus to Online at the Acsenda School of Management, Canada

Daniel, John (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)

In March 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic obliged Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in many countries to vacate their campuses and operate at a distance. We narrate the experience of the Acsenda School of Management (ASM) in ...

COVID-19 and Technology Enhanced Teaching in Higher Education in sub-Saharan Africa: A Case of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mtebe, Joel S.; Fulgence, Katherine; Gallagher, Michael (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

This article aims to share an experience on the process taken by the University of Dar es Salaam to adopt and deliver technology-enhanced teaching and learning during the COVID-19 crisis. The university started by forming ...

Cybersecurity Training for Teachers (CTT)

Commonwealth of Learning (2020-11)

To mitigate the effects of school closures as a result of COVID-19, digital platforms have been variously adopted by governments to enable teachers to deliver blended or full online lessons to the learners. In many families ...

Dare2BDigital

Stacey, Paul; Hirtz, Sandy (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

BCcampus, a Ministry of Advanced Education initiative in the province of British Columbia (BC) Canada, conducted a survey across BC post secondary education system seeking recommendations on how to promote and enhance ...

Deploying Online Streaming of videos via the internet for the delivery of classroom lectures (Real time/On-demand streaming) in ODL schooling

Odion, Amadasun O (2013-11)

This paper, investigates the model of online streaming which provides a free-of-charge access to streaming educational lectures via the internet. Streaming video can be used for live instructional broadcasts or recorded ...

Design and Implementation of Real Time E-Lecturing System

Adebari, Fasasi A; Abdul, Ibrahim A; Yekini, Asafe N (Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)

Advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) is making video streaming a viable way of getting a real-time event to people anywhere in the world through computer systems and handheld devices. In teaching ...

Developing Multimedia Enhanced Content to Upgrade Subject Content Knowledge of Secondary School Teachers in Tanzania

Mtebe, Joel S; Kibga, Elia Y; Mwambela, Alfred A; Kissaka, Mussa M (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)

The failure rates and lack of interest amongst students in science and mathematics in secondary schools in Tanzania is a serious problem. The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) implemented the project ...