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Book Review: Dede & Richards, Eds., The 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-03-19)The 60-Year curriculum: New models for lifelong learning in the digital economy examines new vantage points for higher education reform and global shifts in workforce development driven primarily by new models of lifelong ... -
Creating Open Online Courses with Learner Representative Partners to Widen Participation in Higher Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)Open online courses could provide stepping stones for audiences that are under-represented in higher education (HE). However, there are concerns that these instead proliferate forms of exclusion and do not address known ... -
Developing Partnerships to Acquire Impact: The Role of Three Regional Centres’ Capacity Building Efforts for ODL Adoption in the Emerging World
(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 ... -
The Development of Virtual Education: A Global Perspective
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1999)The term "virtual education" is something that is heard with increasing frequency now as the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) becomes ever more present in the conduct of open and distance education. ... -
Education for Development: From Distance to Open Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)This paper sets out the ways in which technologies for learning have been at the heart of education for development for millennia, not as is sometimes thought only in the last 30 years of the digital revolution. Short case ... -
The Effects of Authentic Learning Practices on Problem-Solving Skills and Attitude towards Science Courses
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-03-18)This study aims to investigate the effects of authentic learning methods — applied in science courses — on the problem-solving skills and attitudes towards those courses. As a research design, a quasi-experimental design ... -
European Distance Education: A Handbook of Current European Programmes and Networks
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1994)The purpose of this handbook is to provide accessible information to personnel in ministries, educational institutions and other bodies concerned with education and training in order to inform them of new developments in ... -
European Figures in Distance and e-Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)In my contribution on European figures who have really made a difference in distance and e-learning I want firstly to observe that Europe has produced, or at least been the happy host of many of the major figures in our ... -
Examining the Practices and Challenges of Distance Education of PhD Candidates in the Context of COVID-19
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-03-19)The distance education system is actively developing in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The sharp transition of PhD candidates to distance education caused difficulties in organising the educational process. The ... -
From Modernisation, Dependency and Soft Power Toward a Commonwealth of Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-11-19)This article reflects on some influential theories, concepts and institutions that have shaped the nature and substance of international development since the mid-20th century. In particular, theories of modernisation and ... -
The Global Micro-credential Landscape: Charting a New Credential Ecology for Lifelong Learning
(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 ... -
Learning Development’s Role in Supporting Academic Synergies through Co-evolution of Teaching Excellence and Practice
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-11-19)This report from the field discusses a new approach taken to the co-evolution of teaching excellence and evidence-based practice in the context of Learning Development in a Technological University in Ireland. It explores ... -
May the Fourth Be with you: Creating Education 4.0
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)The paper looks back across dominant ways of delivering Higher Education until the present day and then looks forward. There is an approximate continuum described from Education 1.0 through 2.0 to 3.0. Education is mapped ... -
Mobile Language Learning Innovation Inspired by Migrants
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)Migrants arriving in a country are not always welcome. Similarly, the arrival of new technologies can be perceived as a blot on the familiar landscape of established educational practices. This paper seeks a productive ... -
Mobile Technologies in Open Schools
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009)Preface (extract)- This book is encouraging evidence that the open schooling community is planning proactively for its future. Mobile technology — particularly mobile phones — will one day be part of the furniture of open ... -
National Open Educational Resources Policy for Malta
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018)Malta’s National Lifelong Learning Strategy 2020 embraces open education and OER to promote connected learning. The document sets out the strategy and contains several recommendations for raising awareness about OER. A ... -
Open Badges as Credentials in Open Education Systems: Case Studies from Greece and Europe
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-03)Open Badges are digital representations of achievements or skills which describe the framework, significance, and outcomes of a learning procedure based on specific criteria. The Open Badges’ collection can be used by ... -
(Re)Designing Augmented Reality Applications to Facilitate Intercultural Telecollaborations
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-03-18)This paper draws on design-based research to develop a real-world classroom Augmented Reality (AR) scenario which was accompanied by tasks used to mediate intercultural telecollaboration. It investigates the role of these ... -
Reports from the Field: Primary School in Brazil Using Finnish Innovation Pedagogy to Create Meaningful Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)ISO Colegío in Paraiba, Brazil, implemented Finnish innovation pedagogy from Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) as a pedagogical strategy in their new primary school in early 2020. The implementation started in ... -
The State of Open Universities in the Commonwealth: A Perspective on Performance, Competition and Innovation
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-02)The goal of this report is to critically examine one of the marvels of modern higher education: specialist open and distance learning (ODL) universities. These institutions, such as The Open University (UKOU), Indira ...
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