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Out-of-School Children: A Contemporary View from the Pacific Island Countries of the Commonwealth
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Narayan, Sharishna – Commonwealth of Learning, 2021
This publication on out-of-school-children (OOSC) in the Pacific is a timely and important contribution to consider interventions to ameliorate educational disparities in the region. A contemporary view of the nine Pacific Island Countries (PICs) that are also members of the Commonwealth are captured as distinct case studies in the publication.…
Descriptors: Out of School Youth, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Dropouts
Open Educational Resources in the Commonwealth 2016
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Phalachandra, B.; Abeywardena, Ishan – Commonwealth of Learning, 2016
This study was conducted as part of the OER for Skills Development project of COL, supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The objective of the study was to collect baseline data from Commonwealth institutions with respect to the development, use and reuse of OER; the availability of support; and challenges faced in fostering the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Units, Computer Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
Consultancy Report: Assessment of the Zambia College of Distance Education (ZACODE)
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Ellis, Justin – Commonwealth of Learning, 2009
This study was carried out at the request of the Ministry of Education, Zambia. The Commonwealth of Learning contracted Turning Points Consultancy CC, a Namibian company, who provided the services of the author, to "carry out an evaluation of the Zambia College of Distance Education (ZACODE) and submit recommendations to the Ministry of…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
Structural Framework for Higher Education Open and Distance Learning in Papua New Guinea
Abrioux, Dominique A. M. X. – Commonwealth of Learning
Realizing the critical need to dramatically improve access to higher education in Papua New Guinea, and the impossibility for traditional modes of education to adequately address this situation given major economic and geographic variables in that country, the National Higher Education Plan 11 (2000-2004) assigned a primordial role to the …
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Open Education, Access to Education
Towards a Strategy on Developing African Teacher Capabilities in the Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
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Commonwealth of Learning, 2004
This study was commissioned by SchoolNet Africa (SNA) in partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) and the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA). It is the most extensive examination to date of teacher training in information and communication technology…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Inservice Teacher Education