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Book Review: Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice (Notes From the Trenches of Distance Education)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)In summary, the publication achieves the editors’ purposes. It delineates the state of flexible learning in higher education, circa 2010, within the context of available and emergent digital technologies. The contributions ... -
Book Review: Guide to Blended Learning by M. Cleveland-Innes with D. Wilton
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)This compact yet complete Guide to Blended Learning is a welcome addition to the arsenal of useful resources published every year by the Commonwealth of Learning. Eight chapters, a reference list and two appendices (one ... -
Book Review: Higher Education and Open Distance Learning Trajectory in India: Reflections of an Insider
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)The volume provides a critique on the functionalities of the ODL system, especially the open universities, with plausible arguments, and touches upon all the crucial aspects of the system broadly. The author takes advantage ... -
Book Review: Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)Daniel Wagner’s Learning as development is an important contribution in this area and, as Marlaine Lockheed of the World Bank points out, the volume “humanizes and broadens the discussion of education and development”. ... -
Book Review: McNaught & Gravett, Eds., Embedding Social Justice in Teacher Education and Development in South Africa
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-03-19)This edited volume by Carmel Mc Naught and Sarah Gravett is part of a series titled Perspectives on education in Africa. The series seeks to “offer tools for analysing, for understanding, and for decisionmaking concerning ... -
Book Review: Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)The book primarily covers different mobile devices and technology being used; design and development of learning material compatible with the smart devices; and strategies for delivery of learning and training through these ... -
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: Moon, Bob. (2013). Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development: A Global Analysis. New York: Routledge.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)This is a wide-ranging, ambitious book that sets out to explore the connectivities between teacher education and the development agenda, in the context of low and middle-income economies. In four distinct sections, it ... -
Book Review: Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)As seen by Otto Peters in his foreword to this substantial volume, the early days of correspondence-based distance education garnered little attention from researchers. As distance education became more widely adopted and ... -
Book Review: Open and Distance Non-formal Education in Developing Countries by Colin Latchem
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-03)In compiling over 180 cases of successful open and distance non-formal education (ODL NFE) interventions from across the developing world, the late Colin Latchem, author of Open and distance non-formal education in ... -
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, ... -
Book Review: Selwyn, Neil (2013). Education in a Digital World: Global Perspectives on Technology and Education. New York: Routledge.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014)This is a relatively short book but in its 164 pages and eight chapters, Selwyn manages to present a penetrating analysis of the role of educational technology in international development and the often hidden ideologies ... -
Book Review: Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)This publication is a collection of articles compiled from papers presented at a forum convened by the Asia Development Bank in Manila in December 2011. The forum brought together a diverse group of international experts, ... -
Book Review: Transforming Universities with Digital Distance Education: The Future of Formal Learning
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)"Transforming universities with digital distance education: The future of formal learning" arrives at a timely demarcation point to consider the future for digital universities. The author provides an insightful and ... -
Book Review: Using ICTs and Blended Learning in Transforming TVET
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)At a time when skills development for livelihoods is a key priority for most governments, the potential of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) to address many of the challenges facing individuals, ... -
Breaking Higher Education's Iron Triangle: Access, Cost, and Quality
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2009-04)Expansion is now the defining trend in the worldwide development of higher education. Some predict that by 2020, 40 percent of the global workforce will be knowledge workers with a need for tertiary qualifications. So the ... -
Bridging Fields at a Critical Time
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)The launch of the Journal of Learning for Development occurs at a critical time for the education and development field. The ‘massive open online course’ concept currently being implemented by Western educators is considered ... -
Bridging the Gap between Community and Cardiologists
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2015)Cardiovascular diseases are an emerging cause of morbidity and mortality in India. India produces less than 150 cardiologists annually leading to a gap between the need and availability of trained professionals. Three years ... -
Building an Efficient and Effective Test Management System in an ODL Institution
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)Open University Malaysia (OUM) is progressively moving towards implementing assessment on demand and online assessment. This move is deemed necessary for OUM to continue to be the leading provider of flexible learning. ...
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