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Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: What’s the difference? (Pre-print)
(2015-06)The emergence of Open Educational Resources (OERs) movement has been adopted by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) as one of the ways to promote access to quality educational materials in the developing countries of the ... -
Quality Assurance in Asian Open and Distance Learning: Policies and Implementation
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2015)Open universities have emerged as an innovative pillar in the expansion of access to higher education participation, with single-mode distance education providers broadening access in many countries through economies of ... -
(Re)Designing Augmented Reality Applications to Facilitate Intercultural Telecollaborations
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-03-18)This paper draws on design-based research to develop a real-world classroom Augmented Reality (AR) scenario which was accompanied by tasks used to mediate intercultural telecollaboration. It investigates the role of these ... -
Re-writing Stories of Child Early and Forced Marriages through Vocational and Entrepreneurship Skills: Experience from the “Girls Inspire Project” in Tanzania
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-07-20)This paper highlights experiences of young mothers, victims of child, early and forced marriages (CEFM) as pertaining to their basic rights, social wellbeing and sustainable livelihood four years after their participation ... -
Reconsidering Access: Using Specific Impact Ranking Metrics to Manage Access in Conventional and Open Higher Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-03-19)This paper considers the widening access and participation agenda, its implications for higher education institutions (HEIs) and contends that it must be underpinned by strategic measurement and monitoring. Access is ... -
Reflecting on the Impact of the Open Education Movement
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)This paper critiques the rise and impact of the open education movement, focusing in particular on Higher Education. It considers the impact of adopting more open practices on learning, teaching and research. In terms of ... -
Reports from the Field: Primary School in Brazil Using Finnish Innovation Pedagogy to Create Meaningful Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2020-11-20)ISO Colegío in Paraiba, Brazil, implemented Finnish innovation pedagogy from Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS) as a pedagogical strategy in their new primary school in early 2020. The implementation started in ... -
Reports from the Field: Secondary School in Hong Kong Integrating the Spirit of Humanities into STEAM Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)A small project of STEAM education called “Innovation for Love and Care” was implemented in a local secondary school in Hong Kong. Four seventh-grade students participated from November 2020 to February 2021. The project ... -
Resilience, Adaptability, and Sustainability of Higher Education: A systematic Mapping Study on the Impact of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic and the Transition to the New Normal
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2022-03-19)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been a global crisis, affecting many areas of society, including higher education, which has not been immune to its effects. This study, therefore, examines COVID-19 from the perspective ... -
Rethinking A Framework for Contextualising and Collaborating in MOOCs by Higher Education Institutions in Africa
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-03-19)Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are online courses that are open to anyone with Internet access. Pioneered in North America, they were developed for contexts with broader access to technology and wider access to the ... -
Rethinking Problem-Solving Teaching Strategies in the Primary Sector for both Face-to-Face and Online Delivery
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-03-18)This paper reports on a review of a series of video tutorials that were developed for offering at a distance to primary school students of Trinidad and Tobago during the pandemic. The materials selected for the review ... -
Review: Cleveland-Innes, M. F., & Garrison, D. R. (Eds.), (2021). An introduction to distance education: Understanding teaching and learning in a new era (2nd ed.). New York, N.Y.: Routledge.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)The second edition of this textbook on distance education is a book of essays by well-known Canadian distance education scholars and their colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. ... -
Review: Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development: How Upskilling, Data Analytics, and Educational Technologies Close the Skills Gap
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-10-19)Reimagining digital learning for sustainable development offers a compilation of curated insights from leading experts in the educational sector, as they contemplate how educational systems will have to reinvent themselves ... -
Review: Southgate, E. (2020). Virtual Reality in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Evidence from Secondary Classrooms. Routledge.
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)The aim of 'Virtual reality in curriculum and pedagogy: Evidence from secondary classrooms' is to ‘stimulate a deeper conversation about the pedagogical value of iVR by sharing insights into what happens when you take ... -
Revisiting Brainstorming within an Educational Context: A Meta-Thematic Analysis
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-11-19)An increase in research on teaching of creativity in learning environments is being witnessed as more studies continue to reveal its effects on learning outcomes and academic achievement. Thus, any investigative attempt ... -
The Right to Education : A Model for making Higher Education equally accessible to All on the Basis of Merit
(Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2008)We commend this collaboration between leading journals in the field to promote the role of distance education in achieving the aspiration of Asha Kanwar the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that higher education shall ... -
The Role Distance Learning has to Play in Offender Education
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2014)This article looks into the uses of digital and online tools in distance learning to improve literacy and numeracy of offenders in New Zealand prisons. Looking at the benefits and restrictions of digital education within ... -
RPL and Skill Deficit: The Role of ODL
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2015)Skills acquisition is vital for any economy to compete and grow, particularly in an era of economic and technological change. Skill needs are widespread in most developing countries , including India . Vocational Education ... -
Scaling Smallholder Farmer Empowerment: Lessons from the Lifelong Learning Program in Uganda
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2021-07-20)An evaluation study of the Lifelong Learning for Farmers (L3F) program was undertaken in two sites; in the central and northern regions of Uganda. Propensity Score Matching (PSM) was used to measure the impact of the program ... -
A Social Justice Framework for Understanding Open Educational Resources and Practices in the Global South
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-12)At the heart of the open educational resources (OER) movement is the intention to provide affordable access to culturally relevant education to all. This imperative could be described as a desire to provide education in a ...
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