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Data for Development: Shifting Research Methodologies for Covid-19

Traxler, John; Smith, Matt (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)

Successful and appropriate informal digital learning can help individuals and communities build sustainable and meaningful livelihoods, strengthen social cohesion and resilience, preserve and enhance cultural traditions ...

Decrypting the Learners’ Retention Factors in Massive Open Online Courses

Pant, Harsh Vardhan; Lohani, Manoj Chandra; Pande, Jeetendra (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-03-19)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have recently become attractive at most universities, and the number of MOOCs has risen significantly, particularly in India. Despite their popularity, previous research has revealed a ...

Department Involvement in Instructional Materials Development for ODL Study at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU)

Tanyanyiwa, Vincent I; Mutambanengwe, Betty (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)

The teaching and designing of modules at Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) is the principal responsibility of a single body of teaching staff, although some authors and content reviewers could be sourced from elsewhere if ...

Designing Reflective Practice in the Context of OER-based e-Learning

Karunanayaka, Shironica P; Naidu, Som; Rajendra, J C N; Ratnayake, H U W (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)

Much is said about the importance of reflective practice especially in the professions. Yet much of what happens as part of reflective practice in the professions such as teaching is most of the time left to chance. ...

Developing and Piloting Interactive Physics Experiments for Secondary Schools in Tanzania

Msoka, Vidate C; Kissaka, Mussa M; Kalinga, Ellen C; Mtebe, Joel S (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)

Students in secondary schools in Tanzania have been facing difficulties in conducting laboratory experiments. This has been due to the acute shortage of laboratory facilities and poor teaching methodologies. Consequently, ...

Developing Multimedia Enhanced Content to Upgrade Subject Content Knowledge of Secondary School Teachers in Tanzania

Mtebe, Joel S; Kibga, Elia Y; Mwambela, Alfred A; Kissaka, Mussa M (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)

The failure rates and lack of interest amongst students in science and mathematics in secondary schools in Tanzania is a serious problem. The Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) implemented the project ...

Developing Multimedia Programmes for Out-of-School Girls: The Case of GIRLS Inspire in Tanzania

Gasuku, Samwel (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-03-19)

Learning resources such as audio, video and online content are developed as supplementary learning resources to print-based materials. This study focuses on the development of multimedia learning in adult education programmes ...

Developing Partnerships to Acquire Impact: The Role of Three Regional Centres’ Capacity Building Efforts for ODL Adoption in the Emerging World

Perris, Kirk; McGreal, Rory (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)

Partnerships are central to the awareness, implementation and development of open and distance learning (ODL). It is an attribute that is distinct in the higher education sector, where ODL has made a large footprint by ...

Developing Self-regulated Learning Skills in University Students Studying in the Open and Distance Learning Environment by Using KWL Method

De Silva, D.V.M. (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-07-20)

Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is considered an important strategy for increasing educational access. However, students learning in ODL environments face many challenges. Studies have indicated that students with ...

Developing Skills to Unlock Kenya’s industrial Growth: The Influence of Provision of Modern Teaching and Learning Equipment in TVET in Kenya

Musyimi, Caroline (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-03-19)

This study explores the influence of modern teaching and learning equipment on improving vocational education quality and employment rates and its long-term effect on Kenya’s journey to achieve industrialisation by the ...

A Discourse Analysis of Teacher-Trainees’ Abstract Conceptualizations of Emerging Technologies in Teaching to Revitalise Luganda Language

Kabugo, David; Masaazi, Fred M; Mugagga, Anthony M (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)

While many young learners of the 21st century have grown up with, and generally prefer to learn using Emerging Technologies (ETs), few teachers of Luganda language graduate with learning experiences of integrating ETs in ...

Distance Education Leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean

Torres, Patricia L; Rama, Claudio (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-04)

Distance higher education has only relatively recently been established in some Latin American and Caribbean countries, as part of wider higher education reforms. It has steadily boosted enrollment since the 1970s but ...

Distance Learner's Perspective on User-Friendly Instructional Materials at the University of Zambia

Simui, F; Thompson, L C; Mundende, K; Mwewa, G; Kakana, F; Chishiba, A; Namangala, B (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)

This case study focuses on print-based instructional materials available to distance education learners at the University of Zambia. Using the Visual Paradigm Software, we model distance education learners’ voices into ...

Does Collaborative Use of the Internet Affect Reading Comprehension in Children?

Mitra, Sugata (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-03)

This paper examines the effect of the Internet on the reading comprehension of children reading together in groups. First, we describe an experiment to determine if children reading together off the Internet from big ...

Dual-Mode Universities in Higher Education: Way Station or Final Destination?

Daniel, John (Routledge, 2012-01)

With online learning it became much easier for academic staff to produce versions of their campus courses for distance students and to interact with them by e-mail and other web tools. This promise of a direct relationship ...

Early Years of the Journal of Learning for Development: A Combination of Bibliometrics and Thematic Analysis

Mishra, Sanjaya (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)

The paper analyses the contributions to Journal of Learning for Development (JL4D) from volume one to five using bibliometrics and content analysis techniques. Analysing the 91 papers in various categories of JL4D, the ...

Editorial

Tait, Alan (Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)

In a world crowded by journals, what is the need for a new one? The worlds of education and development live two separate lives, and educators in particular too often limit their interest to the educational systems within ...

Editorial: Celebrating the 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum and Distance Education Leaders

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)

It is a great pleasure to introduce this special issue of JL4D, which continues our features on Leaders in Distance Education around the world but also has as its main focus a celebration of the 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum ...

Editorial: COVID-19 Pandemic and Innovations in Institutional Transformation, Technology and Pedagogy

Panda, Santosh (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)

Given the concern and the context, the Editorial Board of JL4D at the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) took a considered decision to devote its November 2020 issue to ‘Covid and Learning for Development’. The 18 papers and ...

Editorial: Distance Education Leaders Across the World: Contributions to Learning for Development

Gaskell, Anne (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)

It is a very great pleasure to introduce a new series to JL4D that focuses on the main leaders in distance education and online learning (ODeL) across the world. Articles will cover six areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, North ...