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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. ...
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 ...
Survey on Governments’ Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL)United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2012)
As part of their joint project Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) invited all governments to provide information about their policies ...
The Use of Distance Learning in Non-Formal Education: a report on a survey carried out for the Commonwealth of Learning by the International Extension College
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1996)
The report documents information on 73 projects, in 56 developing countries and 17 industrialised countries, and presents a number of conclusions and proposals for further action. The survey found that there is considerable ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...