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Academic Silver Linings in a Philippine State University Amid the Early Stages of Pandemic Cases

Toquero, Cathy Mae (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

The primary role of the academe is knowledge building, however, due to the prevailing digital divide, some institutions of higher learning were not able to offer even Emergency Online Teaching (EOT) for continuous formal ...

Achieving Community Development through an Agricultural Extension Programme: Technology Dissemination for Mushroom Farmers

De Silva, Nilantha; Wijeratne, Mahinda (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

Mushroom production is a small-scale business unit in rural areas. The Life Long Learning for Farmers (L3F) Programme aims to enhance the socio-economic conditions for them, increasing their access to and use of knowledge ...

Challenges to the Effective Teaching and Learning of Geography through ODeL at the Zimbabwe Open University

Tanyanyiwa, Vincent Itai; Madobi, Rejoice (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

ODeL offers a lot of opportunities and unique challenges for adult learners. In this paper, the authors sought to examine the main problems that influence the effective teaching and learning of geography and environmental ...

Contradictions in Learner Interactions in a Blended-Learning Writing Course in the ODL Context: An Activity Theory Analysis

Pullenayegem, Judy; De Silva, Radhika; Jayatilleke, Gayathri (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

This paper reports on the use of Engeström’s (1987) Activity Theory (AT) framework to gain insights into the contradictions that emerge within the activity system of the online component of an advanced writing skills course, ...

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 ...

Developing Partnerships to Acquire Impact: The Role of Three Regional Centres’ Capacity Building Efforts for ODL Adoption in the Emerging World

Perris, Kirk; McGreal, Rory (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

Partnerships are central to the awareness, implementation and development of open and distance learning (ODL). It is an attribute that is distinct in the higher education sector, where ODL has made a large footprint by ...

Editorial: Researching Technology-Enabled Teaching, Learning and Training

Panda, Santosh (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

In a recent publication, Mishra and Panda (2020) reasserted ‘policy-capacity-technology’ as a theory of change model in effective implementation of technology-enabled learning (TEL), and at the same time underlined “to ...

The Global Micro-credential Landscape: Charting a New Credential Ecology for Lifelong Learning

Brown, Mark; Nic Giolla Mhichíl, Mairéad; Beirne, Elaine; Mac Lochlainn, Conchúr (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

This article offers a global overview of the burgeoning field of micro-credentials and their relationship to lifelong learning, employability and new models of digital education. Although there is no globally accepted ...

A Learning Design for Deep Learning for a Distance Teacher Education Programme

Bose, Sutapa (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

Self-learning materials (SLM) generally lack the mechanisms for ensuring deep learning but help address the learning needs of large number of learners. Hence, it was retained as the key instructional component for a distance ...

Open Pedagogy: A Systematic Review of Empirical Findings

Clinton-Lisell, Virginia (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

Open licensing used in open educational resources allows for teaching and learning practices that are not possible with traditional copyright. There is a growing body of empirical research on open pedagogy. However, ...

The Perception of Educational Stakeholders on Utilization of E-learning Technology for Quality Instructional Delivery in Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria

Owo, Offia Tugwell; Isaac, Udoka C. N. (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

The study was conducted in Rivers State, South-South, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study, which comprised 168 subjects (44 lecturers and 124 students). Two research questions were posed by the ...

Postgraduate Students’ Perception of the Use of E-portfolios as a Teaching Tool to Support their Learning in an Open and Distance Education Institution

Modise, Mphoentle Puleng (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

E-portfolios have been used for decades in education; however, it is still a new trend in some developing countries as they continue to adopt e-learning practices. The study investigated postgraduate students’ experiences ...

Reports from the Field: Secondary School in Hong Kong Integrating the Spirit of Humanities into STEAM Education

Ng, Sin Fai Eric; Ng, Chin Hung (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

A small project of STEAM education called “Innovation for Love and Care” was implemented in a local secondary school in Hong Kong. Four seventh-grade students participated from November 2020 to February 2021. The project ...

Review: Cleveland-Innes, M. F., & Garrison, D. R. (Eds.), (2021). An introduction to distance education: Understanding teaching and learning in a new era (2nd ed.). New York, N.Y.: Routledge.

Porter, David (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

The second edition of this textbook on distance education is a book of essays by well-known Canadian distance education scholars and their colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. ...