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Mass Tertiary Education in the Developing World: Distant Prospect or Distinct Possibility?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2007-06)In the coming decades the global profile of tertiary education will be transformed by the multiplication and growth of institutions in the developing world. Age participation rates in tertiary education are below 10% in ... -
May the Fourth Be with you: Creating Education 4.0
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)The paper looks back across dominant ways of delivering Higher Education until the present day and then looks forward. There is an approximate continuum described from Education 1.0 through 2.0 to 3.0. Education is mapped ... -
Mediated Authentic Video: A Flexible Tool Supporting a Developmental Approach to Teacher Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)You Tube now has more searches than Google, indicating that video is a motivating and, potentially, powerful learning tool. This paper investigates how we can embrace video to support improvements in teacher education. It ... -
A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Parental Involvement on Students’ Academic Achievement
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)This study aims to examine the effect of parental involvement on students’ academic achievement at pre-school, elementary and secondary levels by using the meta-analysis method with respect to home-based and school-based ... -
Mobile Language Learning Innovation Inspired by Migrants
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-07)Migrants arriving in a country are not always welcome. Similarly, the arrival of new technologies can be perceived as a blot on the familiar landscape of established educational practices. This paper seeks a productive ... -
Mobile Learning Research: the Focus for Policy-Makers
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)Mobile learning has moved in the last decade from being a small, scattered research interest to being viewed by many international agencies as a way of delivering their humanitarian missions to the developing contexts of ... -
Mobile Learning: Challenges for Teachers of Indian Open Universities
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016)“Mobile Learning” (m-Learning) has emerged as a trend in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It is removing the time and geographical barriers for learning by placing learning opportunities at the fingertips of ... -
Mobile Learning: Readiness and Perceptions of Teachers of Open Universities of Commonwealth Asia
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)Integration of ‘Mobile Learning’ (m-learning) in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) systems can play a crucial role in reducing the ‘Digital Divide’ and strengthening ‘Democratization of Education’ by providing quality ... -
MOOC Adaptation and Translation to Improve Equity in Participation
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)There is an urgent need to improve elementary and secondary school classroom practices across India and the scale of this challenge is argued to demand new approaches to teacher professional learning. Massive Open Online ... -
MOOC Quality: The Need for New Measures
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2016-11)MOOCs are re-operationalising traditional concepts in education. While they draw on elements of existing educational and learning models, they represent a new approach to instruction and learning. The challenges MOOCs ... -
MOOCifying Courses: Delivery of a MOOC to Enhance University Course Activities
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-07)Since 2012 MOOCs have been heralded as a new way of learning outside of formal university programs of study and there has been much speculation regarding their impact. While MOOCs have provided millions of global learners ... -
Motivations, Achievements, and Challenges of Self-Directed Informal Learners in Open Educational Environments and MOOCs
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)This research targeted the learning preferences, goals and motivations, achievements, challenges, and possibilities for life change of self-directed online learners enrolled in a massive open online course (MOOC) related ... -
Networks for Lifelong Learning and Rural Poverty Reduction in Asia – Lessons and Challenges
(CEMCA, 2006)Who should fund development? This billion dollar question has ideological, perceptional, operational and political connotations. Public sector, private sector, donor agencies and external aid are some of the sources ... -
New Technologies: What are the Opportunities and Challenges?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-03)The United Nations Secretary General’s Strategy on New Technologies emphasises the huge potential of new technologies “to accelerate the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and to facilitate their ... -
The Nexus between Stakeholder Engagement and Instructional Quality: The Case of The UWI Open Campus’s Awareness and Professional Development Towards a Quality Support Framework
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)With changes in the global economic landscape, universities are employing adjunct staff to instruct their online courses in new and expanding programs. Concomitantly, the growth of information and communication technology ... -
Notes from the Field: 'Nurses International' Uses OER to Support Nurse Educators
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)Educating nurses in developing countries is challenging due to limited resources. Nurses International advances nursing education through the use of Open Educational Resources which provides a unique model to teach and ... -
ODL Embedded with Innovative Communication and Digital Media to Empower All Levels of Farm Sectors to be Smart Farmers
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-03-19)This research shows how innovative communication and digital media could help empower any level of farm sector in Thailand and be embedded into ODL to serve their most effective demands. Qualitative research was used via ... -
OER Mainstreaming in Tonga
(International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL), 2019-02)In the race towards achieving the Education 2030 agenda, open educational resources (OER) act as a key enabler for sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4). Leading to the 2014 Regional Focal Points Meeting, Commonwealth of ... -
Open and Distance eLearning in Asia: Country Initiatives and Institutional Cooperation for the Transformation of Higher Education in the Region
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-07)This paper is an attempt to describe the situation of higher education in Asia including the challenges it faced as well as the open and distance elearning initiatives by different countries and universities. Data gathering ... -
Open and Distance Learning and Information and Communication Technologies- Implications on Formal and Non formal Education.
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2015)The Population; female (% of total) in Kenya was last reported at 50.05 in 2011, according to a World Bank report published in 2012. Despite this higher percentage, women in Kenya are not well represented in education and ...
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