Browsing Pan-Commonwealth Forum 5 (PCF5), 2008 by Issue Date

Girl Learners Using Mobile Phones in the Classroom for Mathematical Education

Greenop, Kirston; Busa, Dylan (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

The UN defines South Africa as a middle-income country, yet there are concerns about quality of education, especially in poorer areas. This concern, linked with unemployment figures of between 27 and 40% (over 5 million ...

Working Status of SSC and HSC Students of BOU: Impact on Poverty Alleviation

Akhter, Zobaida (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

In the present day, from national and international perspectives, quality is at the top of most agendas. Similarly improving quality of education is probably the most important task facing any educational institution. ...

ICT in South Africa: Opportunities and Challenges from a NGO Perspective

Greenop, Kirston; Naidoo, Vis (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

The area of ICT, health and education were identified as priority areas by the South African government (for example, the e-Education white paper of 2004, and the e-Health policy of 2006). The e-readiness ranking of the ...

Expanding the Horizon of Education: The Case of Presidents's Special Initiative on Distance Learning, Ghana

Kwarteng, Abena A; Donkor, Francis (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

The paper presents the experiences of the President’s Special Initiative on Distance Learning (PSI-DL) in providing distance education at the pre-tertiary level as an alternative means of expanding access to education ...

Open Classes and Access to Learning Opportunities for Young People in Rural Communities

Stevens, Ken (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

In most countries some people live beyond major centres of population and, with the advance of e-learning, expect to receive the same educational opportunities as those who live in cities. For governments this raises the ...

Local Teachers Talking, About ICT and With ICT, in Rural Africa

McLean, Pamela (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

This paper describes the Teachers Talking (TT) programme which is based in rural Nigeria, rural Kenya and on the Internet. TT uses a variety of ICT applications both in its development and in its delivery. However, it is ...

Readability of Open Education Resources (OERs): A key to success of ODL for the young people

Saxena, Anurag (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

According to Baumel (2002), “20 percent of school age kids are poor readers and remain that way through their lifetime”. It has been proved repeatedly that reading is a language-based skill. Poor reading skills thus ...

Considerations of Design and Development Aspects of Collaborative Technologies to Facilitate Ideas on Open Learning

Vighnarajah; Wong, Su Luan; Bakar, Kamariah Abu (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

Interests on access to open learning, some tangential while others significant, have surfaced as the shared agenda of much debate in the educational community. This emergence of current technologies possesses unimaginable ...

Technology Assisted Open Learning - the Alternative to Increasing Learning

Banjoko, Nkiru (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

Nigeria is a developing country struggling to reach the Millennium Development Goals of universal primary education. The population profile of the country, 2005, shows a high population figure of children and adolescents ...

OER for Distance Learning: Means to Knowledge Empowerment For Developing Nations

Jena, Sitansu S (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

The role of distance education is changing drastically both at micro and macro context. Education has no longer remained either the prerogative of institutions or even knowledge has no longer remained under the sole ...

Mobile Learning: Reaching the Disadvantaged

Ntloedibe-Kuswani, G S (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

Business and leisure have long benefited from the use of mobile devices, such as mobile phones, but research in the use of mobile phones in learning is recent (Alexander, 2004; McNeal & van’t Hooft, 2006). The aim of ...

Using DL to Address the Educational Need of the Ghanaian Basic School Teachers

Owusu-Boateng, William; Essel, Rebecca; Mensah, Joseph A (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

This study was conducted to find out the acceptability of Distance Learning (DL) to Basic School Teachers in Ghana and how they are availing themselves to DL programmes in the country. It was also conducted to find out ...

Social Acceptability of Learner Centered Education: A Comparative Study

De, Dipak; Singh, R S P (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

The primary theme of this study was to examine the perceptions of the secondary and senior higher secondary students’ parents, regarding the social acceptability of ODL schooling as well as conventional schooling. Social ...

ODL for Parents & Carers: Unexplored Possibilities

Kulkarni, Suneeta (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

Open & Distance Learning as a strategy for reaching carers is a neglected area. Parents & carers are typically in long term contact with children. If they can be helped to acquire needed information and skills, we can ...

Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning

Davies, Graeme; Daniel, John; Sharma, Kamalesh; Nsibambi, Apolo; Gourley, Brenda; Briggs, Asa; Ballamy, Carol; Brito, Lídia; Burnett, Nicholas; Dufborg, Astrid; Pityana, Barney (Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, 2008)

Highlights of the keynote presentations at the Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning, Lon . Includes: 1. Sir Graeme Davies, Vice Chancellor, University of London, opening remarks.(Duration:08:07) - 2.Sir John ...

Technological Innovation In Open And Distance Learning : An Aid To Providing More To Children And Young Through Integration With Formal Education

Gupta, Ravindra K (Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2008)

The use of modern technological tools, also known as e-technology, in open learning is advocated on many strong grounds : wider and faster access to the learners, cost-effectiveness, better impact due to audio-visual ...