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Emerging Trends in the Development of School Networking Initiatives
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2004)
This collection of research and case studies provides snapshots of developments in school networking in seven regions of the world. Schoolnets can be defined as the entities that facilitate collaboration among schools and ...
Case Studies of Non-Formal Education by Distance and Open Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL);Department for International Development (DFID), 2000)
This research report will be useful to people involved or interested in the planning, development and implementation of non-formal education programmes because of the useful lessons it offers. The case studies in this ...
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. ...
Costing distance education and open learning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Working Group on Distance Education and Open Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2004)
Both of these "Surveys of policy and practice" were conducted on behalf of COL by the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) as part of COL's partnership agreement with the Association for the Development ...
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 ...
Higher Education through Open and Distance Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning and Routledge, 1999)
Open and distance learning has expanded dramatically in recent years across the world, across the spectrum of subject areas, and across educational levels. This book takes a detailed look at the state of the art of open ...
Library Services to Distance Learners in the Commonwealth: A Reader
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1997)
While distance education is an effective and versatile means of addressing the problems of human resource development in the Commonwealth, an important concern is adequate and appropriate services to support distance ...
Setting Standards, Maintaining Quality: Quality Assurance Policies for Open Schooling
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015-07)
For ODL to be successful and credible, and for learners to gain maximum benefit
from it, it must be recognised as delivering consistently high-standard teaching
and learning. That requires quality assurance (QA) and ...
Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009)
Peacebuilding, whether at the individual or community level, requires direct contact between human beings. So what role can distance education play? Various contributions, notably the description of the Wan Smolbag Theatre ...
Field Trials of Aptus Prototype: An overview of results from 15 countries
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014-07)
Aptus is a server with its own WiFi router. It can be deployed in areas with no access to grid electricity or data connectivity, and the users (with Tablets, smart phones or Laptops) can access several thousand Open ...