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Gender issues and barriers to information and communications technologies

Commonwealth of Learning; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); New Zealand Agency for International Development (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2002)

An invitational meeting for regional representatives from the developing parts of the Commonwealth was held in Ottawa in June 2002, in partnership with Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Participants ...

Gender issues and barriers to information and communications technologies:summary report

Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2002)

An invitational meeting for regional representatives from the developing parts of the Commonwealth was held in Ottawa in June 2002, in partnership with Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Participants ...

ICTs for higher education

Balasubramanian, K; Clarke-Okah, Willie; Daniel, John; Ferreira, Frances; Kanwar, Asha; Kwan, Angela; Lesperance, John; Mallet, Joshua; Umar, Abdurrahman; West, Paul (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2009)

A background paper from the Commonwealth of Learning for the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education; Paris, 5-8 July 2009.

Identifying Barriers Encountered by Women in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Open and Distance Learning in Africa: Country Presentations

Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2000-03)

Regional expert meetings convened by Commonwealth of Learning (COL) - COL and its network are continuing work in addressing gender barriers, such as those encountered by women, to the use of information and communications ...

Identifying Barriers Encountered by Women in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Open and Distance Learning in Africa: Summary Report

Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2000)

Regional expert meetings convened by Commonwealth of Learning (COL). COL and its network are continuing work in addressing gender barriers, such as those encountered by women, to the use of information and communications ...

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 (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 ...

Identifying Barriers Encountered by Women in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Open and Distance Learning in the South Pacific: Country Presentations

Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2001-05)

Regional expert meetings convened by Commonwealth of Learning (COL). COL and its network are continuing work in addressing gender barriers, such as those encountered by women, to the use of information and communications ...

Identifying Barriers Encountered by Women in the Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) for Open and Distance Learning in the South Pacific: Summary Report

Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2001)

Education and training opportunities provided through distance and open learning are one of the few educational areas in which women in the developing world are well represented. Flexible delivery methods help to overcome ...

Initiatives for Seamless Learning: International Conference on Promotion of Open Schooling

National Institute of Open Schooling; Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2005)

The emergence of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) System has been a phenomenal evolution in the history of educational development towards the later half of the twentieth century. While the conventional system continues ...

Innovation in TVET for Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development

Mead Richardson, Alison (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014-12-09)

The potential pivotal role that technical and vocational education and training (TVET) can play in sustainable development is becoming increasingly apparent. The Millennium Development Goals have been a significant force ...

Innovation in TVET for Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development

Mead Richardson, Alison (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2014-12-09)

The potential pivotal role that technical and vocational education and training (TVET) can play in sustainable development is becoming increasingly apparent. The Millennium Development Goals have been a significant force ...

Instructional Design Workshop

Wright, Clayton R (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2009)

According to the Commonwealth of Learning, the purpose of the workshop was to help Mzuzu University academic staff “gain an understanding and insight into how to design and develop instructional materials” for an open ...

International Literacy and Livelihoods Experts Meeting: Learning for Life in a Changing World

Farrell, Glen (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2004)

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is renewing its commitment to the enhancement of literacy in the developing countries of the Commonwealth by establishing a programme area focused on Literacy and Livelihoods. While the ...

Knowledge Management Roundtable: Report and proposals for action

Harry, Keith (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 1999)

Commonwealth of Learning hosted a " Knowledge Management Roundtable" at its Vancouver headquarters 19 - 21 October 1999. Experts in distance education libraries and information databases discussed the changing nature of ...

Literacy & Livelihoods: learning for life in a changing world

(Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2005)

This publication of collected papers resulted from the International Experts Meeting held November 15-17, 2004. Commonwealth of Learning, 2005. Foreword The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) believes that marrying literacy ...

Monitoring and Evaluation for Open Schools Workshop (Africa Region): Evaluation report

Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2010)

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) initiated and implemented a three day awareness and training workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). This report details the session conducted for the Africa region. Twenty eight ...

mooKIT - A MOOC Platform for Developing Countries

Prabhakar, T V; Balaji, Venkataraman; Revathy, K T (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-06)

IIT Kanpur and Commonwealth of Learning (COL) have been working on Massive Open Online Courses since 2012. During this collaboration we developed a MOOC Management system and delivered close to 30 courses to about 200 000 ...

Multi Media Learning in Swaziland: Final workshop report

Smit, Linette (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2010)

The focus of the workshop was to familiarise ODL content developers, script writers, instructional designers, multimedia content editors and coordinators of learner support, research, evaluation and academic studies, ...

OERScout: Autonomous Clustering of Open Educational Resources

Abeywardena, Ishan S; Tham, Choy Y; Chan, Chee S; Balaji, Venkataraman (Asian Association of Open Universities, 2012)

The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has gained momentum in the past few years. With this new drive towards making knowledge open and accessible, a large number of OER repositories have been established and made ...

Planning and Implementing Open Distance Learning Systems

Commonwealth of Learning (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2002)

These profiles of open and distance learning provision from institutions in eleven African countries are based on papers developed by African distance educators for a workshop on planning and management in open and ...