Browsing 01. Research & Publications by Subject "Capacity Building"

    • An Anthology of "Best Practices" in Teacher Education 

      Lakshmi, T K S; Rama, K; Hendrikz, Johan (National Assessment and Accreditation Council, India;Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2007-08)
      Quality Assurance in the education sector is one of the major initiatives of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in its Three-Year Plan for 2006-09. To achieve the outcome of enhanced quality at all levels of education, COL ...

    • Communication and capacity building to advance adaptation strategies in agriculture in the context of climate change in India 

      Balaji, Venkataraman; Ganapuram, Sreedhar; Devakumar, C (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-04)
      Climate change is perhaps the most serious issue that affects food security of a very large number of human beings and animals. Impacts of climate change will be particularly significant in South Asia where most of food ...

    • Eliciting In-service Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for 21st-Century Skills in Tanzania 

      Mtebe, Joel S; Raphael, Christina (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)
      The Tanzania Vision 2025 articulates the country's aspiration of becoming an industrialized and middle-income country by 2025. The education sector, which is the main driving force towards realizing this goal, is expected ...

    • MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation 

      Wolfenden, Freda; Cross, Simon; Henry, Fiona (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)
      There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online ...

    • OER Capacity Building - Yaba College of Technology 

      Deurwaarder, J M (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-07)
      The workshop was held at the Academic Board Chamber of YCT from May 18-25, 2016 with approximately 50 participants. By the end of the input, it was expected that YCT would have a set of blueprints and good quality learning ...

    • OER Capacity Building – The Open University of Sri Lanka 

      Kamal, Mostafa A (Commonwealth of Learning, 2016-07)
      The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in collaboration with the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) organized a capacity building workshop on the use/reuse of OER in ODL course development for academic staff of OUSL on February ...

    • Technology Leadership and ICT Use: Strategies for Capacity Building for ICT integration 

      Mwawasi, Felix M (Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)
      Technology leadership is a fairly new concept in school leadership focus. It has become a concern for study in recent times, in tandem with the pedagogical change of integrating ICT in teaching and learning especially in ...

    • Unlocking the Potential of Public Libraries in Supporting Distance Learning 

      Nabushawo, Harriet M; Aguti, Jessica N; Winterbottom, Mark (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)
      This paper examines the place of public libraries in supporting distance learners in Makerere University, exploring the factors which affect utilisation of their services. The study adopted a survey design with 300 B.Ed. ...