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Marketing and branding of open and distance learning
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2012)
Open and distance learning (ODL) has evolved over the last century, but the ways in which its benefits are marketed to students and other stakeholders have remained relatively unchanged. The benefits are still relevant but ...
Analysing Costs/Benefits for Distance Education Programmes
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2001)
Through cost analysis you can find out how much something actually costs, set a budget, determine a price and compare the costs of different options. In distance education, the main areas are:- Correspondence systems based ...
Audio/Audioconferencing in Support of Distance Education
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2001)
Whilst the latest generation of distance education has brought us a dizzying array of high tech,computer-based education technology and information saturation via the internet, simple audio and audioconferencing technologies ...
Using Information and Communications Technology for Agricultural Extension
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2005)
Agriculture is the mainstay of many low-income or developing nations’ economies and exports, and provides for the livelihoods of billions of smallholders. These smallholder farmers face low or reducing crop yields and ...
Instructional Design for Self-Learning for Distance Education
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2000)
Having been asked to write about how to design and develop distance education courses, I have to start by stating "it all depends". Though it sounds like a bit of a cop out, it's true. Context is paramount. Having worked ...
Institutional Collaboration in Distance Education Development and Delivery
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2003)
Education institutions worldwide are experiencing funding cuts, even as global demand for training in new skills and for professional upgrading increases. Providing courses and programmes at a distance is one of the proven ...
Mobile Learning in Developing Countries
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2005)
Mobile learning, or m-learning, is a personal, unobtrusive, spontaneous, “anytime, anywhere” way to learn and to access educational tools and material that enlarges access to education for all. It reinforces learners’ sense ...
Acquiring Accreditation in Distance Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2007)
In the higher education community, distance education (DE) has been perceived as not being as good as contact education or as a last resort. Actually, it is just a different way of delivering education and is often the ...
Adapting Learning Materials for Distance Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2007)
In face-to-face education, instructors are present to guide the instructional/ learning process. In distance education (DE) instructors and students are separated and instructors have limited opportunity to observe, ...
Designing Learning Objects for Online Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2007)
he phrase “learning object” (LO) comes from the idea of objectoriented programming, where parts of computer code are reused for various software applications. This concept was transferred to re-purposing content for different ...