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Distance education and open learning in Sub-Saharan Africa: A literature survey on policy and practice
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2002)
This report is a review of the literature on current developments and prospects
in the field of open and distance learning in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Education is seen as a major impetus behind fundamental change ...
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 ...
Open Educational Resources: An Asian Perspective
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL);OER Asia, 2013)
This book, the result of an OER Asia research project hosted and implemented by the Wawasan Open University in Malaysia, with support from Canada’s International Development Research Centre, brings together ten country ...
Women and Leadership in Open and Distance Learning and Development
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2013)
This book could not have come at a better time. Many women in Commonwealth Member States continue to face great challenges of severe discrimination and violence. Education is one means of equipping women to deal with this ...
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 ...
Costing ODL
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2004-06)
Costing ODL (CDROM) -- Provides an introduction to costing in open and distance learning (ODL). It is designed for people setting up new ODL programmes and for people wishing to improve the quality of the management of ...
Designing Materials for Open and Distance Learning: Trainers' Kit 002
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL);Asia Development Bank, 1999)
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are pleased to provide this toolkit for your use and we sincerely hope that it will be a valuable resource for anyone planning and conducting training ...
Distance education and open learning in Sub-Saharan Africa: Criteria and conditions for quality and critical success factors
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2002)
ADEA (2002, 2003) notes that with increasing demand for access to educational opportunities at all levels, and often decreasing budgets in real terms for educational provision, there has been a growing interest in sub-Saharan ...
Vocational Education and Training through Open and Distance Learning
(commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver and Routledge, 2004)
The world needs workers with more and better skills. Conventional apprenticeships and old methods of professional training are not providing enough skilled workers, so governments, companies and colleges are all using open ...
An Introduction to Open and Distance Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2000)
This introduction to open and distance learning was based on introductory materials in COL's "training toolkits." The development of the toolkits, in various topics related to open and distance learning, involved the time ...