Browsing 01. Research & Publications by Subject "Open Educational Resources (OER)"
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Addressing the Learning Needs of Out-of-School Children and Youths through the Expansion of Open Schooling
(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 ... -
A Baseline Study on Technology-Enabled Learning in the African and Mediterranean Countries of the Commonwealth: Report
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-09)The study reports the findings of a desk review derived from Internet-based searches on the status of technology-enabled learning (TEL) in the African and Mediterranean countries of the Commonwealth in June 2015. Wherever ... -
A Baseline Study on Technology-Enabled Learning in the Asian Commonwealth
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-08)This report presents the findings of a study of technology-enabled learning in Commonwealth Asia to identify the basic mileposts in these countries’ vision and mission regarding ICT in education policies. The study looked ... -
A Baseline Study on Technology-Enabled Learning in the Commonwealth Pacific Island Countries: Report
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-11)This report presents an overview of the developments related to technology-enabled learning in the nine Commonwealth countries of the Pacific as in June 2015. The author provides in-depth analyses of specific country ... -
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL);United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2015)Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to think about when exploring how to use OER most effectively. The second section ... -
Benefits and Challenges of OER for Higher Education Institutions
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2010)Paper commissioned by the Commonwealth of Learning for workshop discussions at the Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop for Heads of Commonwealth Universities, Cape Town, South Africa, 28 April 2010, and workshop ... -
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: 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: 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: Promoting Use and Contribution of Open Educational Resources
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)The current movement toward Open Educational Resources (OER) has a long historical precedence in the open education movements including that of the provision of equality of educational opportunity, recognising, though, ... -
Can New Modes of Digital Learning Help Resolve the Teacher Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)Sub-Saharan Africa, more than any other part of the world, is experiencing a crisis in finding sufficiently qualified teachers to meet the needs of expanding school systems. The professional development support provided ... -
Case Studies on OER-based eLearning
(Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), 2014)Preface Case Studies: Open University of Sri Lanka Integrating OER in a Teacher Education Course by Shironica Karunanayaka Indira Gandhi National Open University OER-based Post Graduate Diploma in e-Learning by G. Mythili ... -
Challenges and Opportunities in the Implementation of School-Based Teacher Professional Development: A Case from Kenya
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-03)This study investigated how a school-based professional development programme, designed by the Headteacher and staff of a Kenyan primary school, and delivered by a Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) team, ... -
Challenges of Adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) in Kenyan Secondary Schools: The Case of Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)Kenya, like many African countries, has faced enormous challenges in the production of and access to quality relevant teaching and learning materials and resources in primary and secondary school classrooms. This has been ... -
Changing our (Dis)Course: A Distinctive Social Justice Aligned Definition of Open Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)This paper investigates the degree to which recent digital Open Education literature is aligned to social justice principles, starting with the first UNESCO definition of Open Educational Resources (OER). A critical analysis ... -
Changing the Tune: MOOCs for Human Development? A Case Study (Pre-print)
(2015-06)The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is covered in critical analysis as well as in popular media as a development exclusively bearing on the Higher Education sector (The Economist, 2014). This term has also acquired an ... -
A Collaborative Approach to OER Policy and Guidelines Development in the Commonwealth: The Case of Botswana, Cameroon, and Sri Lanka
(Athabasca University Press, 2018-04)Access to relevant learning resources is an important aspect in ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all as outlined in the sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4). The ... -
Connections (vol. 11, no. 3)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2006-10)COL newsletter published October 2006 -
Copyright and Open Educational Resources
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2010)Open Educational Resources (OERs) are characterised by the fact that their copyright scope is limited by means of an open content license. The “all rights reserved” model of traditional copyright is replaced with a more ... -
Creating, Using and Sharing Open Educational Resources
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2013)Open Educational Resources (OER) are free learning resources available on the Internet. OER can be openly licensed or in the public domain, and can be used or reused for free. They can exist in many formats: text (either ...
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