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The 2016 Kuala Lumpur Declaration (30 November 2016)
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11-30)The Kuala Lumpur Declaration was presented on November 30, 2016 at the Closing Ceremony of the Eighth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With the Charter of the ... -
Access and Quality in Self Organized Learning Environments
(2010-11)Learning Environments in remote areas: // Almost no one in the world will deny that children need to have access to meaningful learning experiences if they are to truly gain from these experiences and go beyond rote ... -
Access to Equality in Education for Children with Disability through Inclusive Education
(2010-11)This paper will attempt to analyze the origin, concept and practices of inclusive education; also it focuses on a critical element of the inclusive education as a challenge towards achievement of equity for students with ... -
Accessibility Strategies for Making MOOCs for People with Visual impairments: A Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Perspective
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were designed to enhance access to education to all that desire it. The open access drive seeks to promote free and equitable access to basic, higher, formal and informal education. The ... -
Accommodating Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties in Educational Settings: Problems and Solutions
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs) such as dyslexia and ADHD are very common: it is estimated that 10% of the world population has some kind of learning difficulty. Due to the challenges learners with SpLDs face in the ... -
Adapting Quality Assurance to Innovative Programmes
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Promoting equity by opening up higher education has posed challenges to quality assurance and even to the definition of quality in higher education. However, certain fundamental principles underpin all forms of higher ... -
Asa Briggs Lecture: Compulsions of Oneness
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2004-07-04)Asa Briggs Lecture presented by Sir Shridath ("Sonny") Ramphal, former Commonwealth Secretary-General (1975-1990) and former Foreign Minister of Guyana, at the Third Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning, 4 July 2014, ... -
Asa Briggs Lecture: Education and Bridging Work Cultures
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 1999-03-01)Asa Briggs Lecture presented by Professor Wang Gungwu, Director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, at the First Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning, 1 March 1999, Brunei Darussalam. -
Asa Briggs Lecture: Open Learning for Development: Towards Empowerment and Transformation
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2013-12)Asa Briggs Lecture presented by Mr. Alan Tait, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Learning for Development, Commonwealth of Learning, Professor, Distance Education and Development, Open University, United Kingdom, at the Seventh ... -
Assessing the need for a quality framework designed specifically for managing the provision of online distance education in developing countries
(2010-11)Quality assurance and quality improvement processes employ quality frameworks to ensure comprehensive coverage of the factors affecting students’ experiences of learning. The importance of quality frameworks has increased ... -
Barriers To The Effective Use Of Information And Communication Technologies In Distance Education
(2013-11)Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have revolutionized all aspects of human life on this planet and these have created unprecedented challenges and unparallel opportunities for advancement on this globe. ... -
Blended Learning - What Mix? Flexible Learning - How Supple?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Online technology already permeates higher education - whether programmes are formally offered online or not. We adopt the definitions of the Babson surveys in distinguishing between face-to-face, blended, and online ... -
Bringing Learning Closer to the Workplace: An Online Course for Librarians in Developing Countries
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and Open University Malaysia (OUM), 2016-11)Face-to-face training workshops are frequently used in a capacity development context. However, the workshop approach has its limitations as the application of learning in practice can only happen once the learners are ... -
Can we really learn from mobile handheld devices?
(2010-11)There is much evidence that mobile technologies are playing an increasing role in education. For the most part, this role has been limited to administrative reminders and some elements of learner support particularly in ... -
Collapsing Classroom Walls for Increased Access and Success
(2013-11)In this era of information revolution, it is imperative that governments expand the scalability , efficiency and quality of learning at all levels to help meet the global demands. This can only be achieved by using ... -
ColorBoard: A Product and Process to Enable Quality Education for All
(2010-11)This paper 1) proposes both a product and a process to provide access and opportunity to learning, 2) offers a way to encourage the participatory development of appropriate, relevant resources, and 3) shares findings from ... -
Comparing learning effectiveness based on use of different media for delivery of content
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2004-07)In an attempt to understand better how the use of different media of delivery of content at a distance affect learning effectiveness, the Commonwealth of Learning initiated a survey of adult learners engaged in workplace ... -
The Contextualisation of Employability in Institutions of Higher Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2019-09)Several reasons account for the need to reconceptualise employability in higher institutions . The first is the crunch of unemployment which intersects with and could be partly responsible for the diminutive ... -
Continuity education in emergency and conflict situations: the case for using open, distance and flexible learning (ODFL)
(2010-11)Emergency and conflict in countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Haiti and Afghanistan have made us more aware of the long-term serial disruption and psychosocial damage faced by people caught up in emergency and conflict ... -
Criteria’s for Quality Assurance in Designing and Developing Open Educational Resources for Schools
(2013-11)To achieve the dream of equal and just society we need to develop ourselves as a worthy and independent member learning community. To realize this dream every member must be free from fears of different kind that make ...
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