Editorial: Celebrating the 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum and Distance Education Leaders
View/
PDF (492.1Kb)
Date
2017-07Abstract
It is a great pleasure to introduce this special issue of JL4D, which continues our features on Leaders in Distance Education around the world but also has as its main focus a celebration of the 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF8), held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November 2016. Organised by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in partnership with Open University Malaysia (OUM), PCF8 attracted 475 participants from 59 countries to discuss “Open, Online and Flexible Learning: The Key to Sustainable Development” through focussing on four sub-themes: Quality and Equity; Access and Inclusion; Efficiency and Effectiveness; and Technology and Education. This selection of the papers presented, now revised and updated, provides an illustration of the breadth and depth of discussion at the Forum.
Collections
Metadata
Show full item recordRelated Items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Editorial: Open and Distance Learning for Development: How Can New Technologies and Distance Education Leaders Make an Impact?
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)This issue of JL4D continues our popular series on Leaders in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) across the world, and it also includes major discussions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how they can be ... -
Editorial: Distance Education Leaders Across the World: Contributions to Learning for Development
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-03)It is a very great pleasure to introduce a new series to JL4D that focuses on the main leaders in distance education and online learning (ODeL) across the world. Articles will cover six areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, North ... -
Editorial: Meeting sustainable development goal 4: Some key contributions
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2018-04)The articles in this issue all provide important contributions towards meeting SDG4. They highlight the role of informal learning (Kidu), community development (Pascevicius & Hodgkins-Williams), Open Educational Resources ... -
Asian Leaders in Open and Distance Education
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)The Asian distance education system is probably the largest in the world. No other continent has seen such a serious policy discourse, as well as determined efforts in its practice, as Asia, since the focus invariably has ... -
Leaders in Distance Education in the English-Speaking Caribbean
(Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2017-11)In examining the provision of distance education in the English-speaking (Commonwealth) Caribbean, it must be acknowledged that, historically, the main providers have been external institutions: the University of London ...
