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Accelerating Gender Parity
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-03-08)Video message delivered for International Women's Day 2016, 8 March 2016 by Professor Asha Kanwar, President & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning. -
Addressing the Successes and Failures of the Campaign for Universal Primary Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2010)The report card of the global campaign to achieve universal primary education (UPE), which began at the Jomtien Conference in 1990 and was reinforced by the Dakar Forum in 2000, is a blend of success and failure. Both ... -
Assistive Technologies: Inclusive Teaching Guidelines for Educators
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-09)In education, assistive technologies include devices or services that increase learners’ independence, participation or achievement to ensure that they reach their full potential. This guide describes how educators using ... -
Blended Course Learnability Evaluation Checklist
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018)This blended course learnability evaluation checklist can be used for measuring the quality of the course. It can be used as a developmental tool by the teachers developing the blended course. -
Book Review: Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South takes the reader around the world to learn about developments in open educational resources (OER) from a range of emerging world perspectives. Contributions emanate from South ... -
Book Review: An Introduction to Cybersecurity for Busy People: Learn how to be safe and secure in the digital world
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-07-20)This book is short and purposefully presented as a quick read for those who need an overview on the topic of cyber security. Keats speaks about the threats users and organisations face, presents examples of typical threats ... -
Book Review: Assignments as Controversies: Digital Literacy and Writing in Classroom Practice by Ibrar Bhatt
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-03)Assignments as controversies tells a multifaceted story about academic assignments and how they are completed in the classroom. It looks at the complex task of assignment writing from a perspective of the different ... -
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 ... -
Book Review: Depover, C., Orivel, F. (2012). Developing countries in the elearning era (Vol. 96). Paris: UNESCO IIPE.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)This review will depart from the standard format of a review, which usually starts by giving a brief summary of the reviewed item. Given that the book is readily available online at this URL and includes a good advance ... -
Book Review: Dron, Jon and Terry Anderson (2014). Teaching Crowds - Learning and Social Media, Edmonton: AU Press.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)This volume written by Dron and Anderson consists of ten chapters and is completed by a reference section and a useful index. The preface details the book’s objectives, after briefly explaining the ambiguous nature of its ... -
Book Review: Education and International Development: Theory, Practice and Issues
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)Education has been a driving force for developmental activities in all spheres associated with human development. Development as a phenomenon can acquire many forms, depending upon nature, cause and purpose. However, the ... -
Book Review: Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice (Notes From the Trenches of Distance Education)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)In summary, the publication achieves the editors’ purposes. It delineates the state of flexible learning in higher education, circa 2010, within the context of available and emergent digital technologies. The contributions ... -
Book Review: Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)Daniel Wagner’s Learning as development is an important contribution in this area and, as Marlaine Lockheed of the World Bank points out, the volume “humanizes and broadens the discussion of education and development”. ... -
Book Review: Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)The book primarily covers different mobile devices and technology being used; design and development of learning material compatible with the smart devices; and strategies for delivery of learning and training through these ... -
Book Review: Moocs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes and Opportunities
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-03-20)Many Western educators live under the mistaken impression that Massive Open Online Courses are a waning fad that never lived up to the disruptive potential claimed by its early evangelists. However, even so-called ... -
Book Review: Moon, Bob. (2013). Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development: A Global Analysis. New York: Routledge.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)This is a wide-ranging, ambitious book that sets out to explore the connectivities between teacher education and the development agenda, in the context of low and middle-income economies. In four distinct sections, it ... -
Book Review: Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)As seen by Otto Peters in his foreword to this substantial volume, the early days of correspondence-based distance education garnered little attention from researchers. As distance education became more widely adopted and ... -
Book Review: Open and Distance Non-formal Education in Developing Countries by Colin Latchem
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-03)In compiling over 180 cases of successful open and distance non-formal education (ODL NFE) interventions from across the developing world, the late Colin Latchem, author of Open and distance non-formal education in ... -
Book Review: Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-04)Democratisation of education is the need of the hour across the globe. Before it is done, education needs to be liberated from the cost circumference in addition to removing other barriers. The “Open” movement is one such ... -
Book Review: Selwyn, Neil (2013). Education in a Digital World: Global Perspectives on Technology and Education. New York: Routledge.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)This is a relatively short book but in its 164 pages and eight chapters, Selwyn manages to present a penetrating analysis of the role of educational technology in international development and the often hidden ideologies ...
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