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Leading Organizational Change for Distance Learning at the Unviersity of Technology, Jamaica
(2013-08)
This paper provides a conceptual framework for reviewing the institutional development experiences arising from the implementation of the comprehensive distance learning strategy, through the lens of an organizational ...
Keeping Step with the times: The culture of Quality at the University of the West Indies, Open Campus
(2013-11)
The growth of information and communication technology worldwide has facilitated the creation of classrooms without walls and universities without borders. The reaffirmation of UNESCO’s goal of ‘Education for all by 2015’ ...
Practitioner’s Notes: Analysing expected and unexpected changes when F2F training and mentoring goes online: a Caribbean view
(2013-11)
In 2009, TCPC started working with CARIMAC and COL to develop and demonstrate a cost effective model for the creation of non-formal education programming about local community issues for specific target groups. The partners ...
Identifying Barriers Encountered by Women in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Open and Distance Learning in the Caribbean: Summary Report
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1999)
Open and distance learning methodologies help girls and women overcome some of the challenges
they face in attaining education when the only opportunities available to them are provided through
conventional means. With ...
Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally (FGSOERI): Latin America
(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver and UNESCO, 2012-03)
As part of the project Fostering Governmental Support for Open Educational Resources Internationally (FGSOERI), six regional policy forums will be held, one in each UNESCO region, between January and May 2012. The objectives ...
Positioning for use of OERs in online course development: Best Practice and Quality Assurance
(2013-11)
Enhancement of quality in online learning is driven by key factors, among them course development strategies, course structure and technology integration. OERs provide an opportunity for improving the pace of course ...
Coaching for Change Management and Institutional Development: The Case of the Programme Delivery Department in The University of the West Indies, Open Campus
(2013-11)
This study explores the use of informal coaching techniques to inspire and drive change to
institutionalise an ODL departmental culture of excellence aimed at long-term organizational
benefits. Qualitative methods were ...
The UTech CommUniversity Initiative for Developing Vocational Literacy Skills and Core Values through Flexible Learning: Challenges & Success Factors
(2013-11)
This paper highlights the experiences of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), in implementing a community-based training initiative to facilitate the development of vocational literacy skills for entrepreneurship, ...
Disparities among male and female in Developing Belize: Opportunities for Open and Distance Learning to address urgent social, academic, and gender inequality
(2013-11)
Historically in Belize, Central America, women are perceived as child bearers, teachers, nurses and those who assume less dominant roles. Even as women are expected to assume traditional responsibilities, national data ...
Emerging Technologies, Established Communities, & Evolving Universities
(2010-11)
Post-secondary institutions in Canada and around the world are in a constant state of flux due to changing population demographics and newer technologies. With multifarious demands for corollary revenues and bottom lines, ...