Browsing by Subject "Monitoring and Evaluation"

Addressing the Learning Needs of Out-of-School Children and Youths through the Expansion of Open Schooling

Mays, Tony; Singh, Rajiv Kumar (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-12)

At any one time, about 300 million children of school going age are not in school. Experience indicates that when schooling is disrupted, whether by a pandemic, a natural disaster or other reasons, not all children return ...

Assessing Freshman ICT Literacy- A Case Study of UPNG Open College

Erapae, Tuai (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

Bringing Learning Closer to the Workplace: An Online Course for Librarians in Developing Countries

Wild, Joanna; Murugesan, Ravi; Schaeffler, Veronika; Powell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)

Face-to-face training workshops are frequently used in a capacity development context. However, the workshop approach has its limitations as the application of learning in practice can only happen once the learners are ...

Commonwealth’s Support to Member States in Achieving SDGs: Emerging Gaps in Education

Balaji, Venkataraman; Cheng, Ricky (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-03-09)

Analysis of gaps in achieving SDG4 requires use of official data gathered by the UNESCO institute of Statistics from member countries. We have presented a comparison of data and trends for three select indicators for SDG4; ...

Community Radio and Health Development in Rural Cameroon: An Impact Evaluation of COL-Cameroon Link Program in Lebialem SWR, Cameroon

Afutendem, Lucas N (2013-11)

Community radios are key role players and important change makers in establishing and promoting healthy trends and life styles. In an effort to educate, protect, support and promote mother and child health care best practices ...

A Diagnosis of Learner Opinions in BA (Humanities) Programme Offered by Institute of Distance Education, University of Swaziland, Swaziland

Rastogi, Satish (Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)

This Programme Evaluation for BA (Hum) had been based on past learners’ opinion about various activities at Input, Process, and Output stage with a purpose to raise quality of every service rendered by the University of ...

A Digital Education Transformation Roadmap to Achieve a Distributed Learning Ecosystem: Case-Study of the University of Mauritius

Santally, Mohammad I (2019-09)

The University of Mauritius embarked on the open and distance learning journey in 1993 and engaged in the promotion of distance eLearning and technology - enhanced learning in 2001. The University ...

Dynamics of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Quality Review: A Case of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) of India

Rahman, Md Mizanoor; Yeasmin, Sabina (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

The new e ducation agenda, also known as ‘Education 2030’ , is fully captured in Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning ...

eLearning for International Organisations 2015 Programme Evaluation

Sentes, Lee (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-04)

The purpose of the evaluation was to: 1. Update information last collected during a formative programme evaluation in 2008/9. 2. Survey and interview a broad selection of individuals drawn from past course participants, ...

Enhancing Teaching and Learning: Development of a New e-Learning Model at Open University Malaysia

Fadzil, Mansor; Latif, Latifah A (2010-11)

Open University Malaysia (OUM) which was established in 2000 was the first open and distance learning (ODL) university in Malaysia. It has the unique status of a private university yet indirectly owned by the government ...

Evaluating the Design, Development, and Implementation Experiences of the Digital Fluency Course

Mallinson, Brenda (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

The Digital Fluency course is a suite of 5 openly licenced modules designed to enhance capacity for educators in identified topics to support their work in the higher education sector in the 21st Century. OER Africa and ...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Multi-Modal Approach to the Design and Integration of Microlearning Resources in In-Service Teacher Training

Allela, Melisa; Ogange, Betty; Junaid, Mohammed; Prince, Brainard (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

To meet the growing demand for continuing professional development of practicing teachers, the integrated in-service teacher training (INSET) programme aims at making permanent improvements on the quality of teaching and ...

External Evaluation of the 2012–2015 Three-Year Plan

Kemp, Neil (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-05)

1.1 This evaluation was commissioned by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), according to the Terms of Reference (see Annex 2). The two consultants who undertook the evaluation were Neil Kemp and Glen Farrell, selected ...

From Data to Difference!

Kanwar, Asha; Carr, Alexis (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-03-13)

Presentation for the 13 March 2020 Side Event at CSW64/Beijing + 25 (2020) at the Joint Office for Commonwealth Permanent Missions to the United Nations.

From Recommendations to Actions

Balaji, Venkataraman; Carr, Alexis (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-04-28)

Keynote presentation delivered by Dr Venkataraman Balaji, Vice President, Commonwealth of Learning at the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Virtual Commonwealth Learning Week on April 28, 2021.

Impact Assessment of OER Repository of Bangladesh Open University

Rahman, Md Mizanoor; Panigrahi, Manas Ranjan; Panda, Santosh (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

This article reports finding from a study with the students of Bangladesh Open University which replaced traditional textbooks prepared using in-house style with openly licensed books under creative commons (CC) license ...

The Impact of Technology Enabled Learning Implementation using Moodle at the National University of Samoa: Analysis of Student Perceptions

Chan Mow, Ioana; Patu, Tara; Wong Soon, Agnes; Lipine, Oloa; Mose, Mose (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

This paper is based on a research study “The Impact of Technology Enabled Learning Implementation at the National University of Samoa” which evaluated both lecturer and student experience on the implementation of technology ...

The Impact of the Commonwealth of Learning, 2006–2015: Value Through Learning for Development

Murgatroyd, Stephen; Tully, Janet (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-05)

The environment in which COL is operating is fast changing and challenging. Learning and education are seen as critical to the achievement of national development goals, yet learning and education are themselves changing ...

Improving Exam Performance Among Low Achievers of 3rd Year B.A.(Hum) Programme offered by Institute of Distance Education, University of Swaziland

Sukati, C W S; Rastogi, Satish (2013-11)

This project was undertaken to diagnose difficult course content by students in different low performance courses and to wash out these difficulties with the help of a tutor support as well as help these learners for ...

Innovations for Quality Education and Life Long Learning

Goitsemang, Lechani; Seretse, Tebogo Ethel (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)

The Purpose of this paper is to establish the benefits that Open and Distance Learning (ODL)learners derive from using Digital technologies in Open and Distance learning during the course of their study. This study looked ...