Perspectives on Distance Education: Foreign Providers in the Caribbean: Pillagers or Preceptors?
Edited by Stewart Marshall, Ed Brandon, Michael Thomas, Asha Kanwar and Tove Lyngra
The growing phenomenon of cross-border higher education (CBHE) will not help developing countries unless it is accessible, available, affordable, relevant and of acceptable quality. Foreign Providers in the Caribbean: Pillagers or Preceptors? focusses on the trends of CBHE in the Caribbean, which has its own unique characteristics.
Commonwealth of Learning, 2008.
Perspectives on Distance Education: Towards a Culture of Quality
Edited by Badri N. Koul and Asha Kanwar
From Quality Assurance to a Culture of Quality in Open Distance Education: Case Studies and Inferences.
The title indicates that this third publication on the theme of quality in the COL Perspectives on Distance Education series widens the discussion beyond external quality assurance processes to a more generic focus on a "culture of quality." It is a logical extension of the earlier two publications, which came out in 1994 and 1997 and drew our attention to quality assurance concerns, clarifying the basic concepts and documenting the various quality assurance practices as well as the diverse challenges they pose in different contexts.
Commonwealth of Learning, 2006.
Perspectives on Distance Education: Lifelong Learning & Distance Higher Education
Edited by Christopher McIntosh
Editorial Coordination by Zeynep Varoglu
Reflecting a common objective of ensuring quality Education for All, this book is a joint initiative of UNESCO and COL and jointly published. Lifelong Learning in Distance Higher Education brings together a diverse group of experts from many countries. The book provides a clear picture of the challenges, problems and potential of distance higher education at its current stage of development. It also describes successful practices for planning and implementing distance higher education and offers numerous practical insights. Aimed at planners, policy makers and other stakeholders, the book is intended to be a practical tool for capacity building and decision making.
Commonwealth of Learning/UNESCO, 2005.
Perspectives on Distance Education: Educational Media in Asia
Edited by Usha V. Reddi and Sanjaya Mishra
This is the first book to survey the region's use of educational media and summarise the experiences of different Commonwealth Asian countries in one collection. It includes a review of the key issues, country studies, research reviews and several case studies on harnessing technologies for distance-learning initiatives. The book is designed to serve as both a resource and a guide.
Commonwealth of Learning, 2005.
Perspectives on Distance Education: Emerging Trends in the Development of School Networking Initiatives
Edited by Vis Naidoo and Heba Ramzy
This collection of research and case studies provides snapshots of developments in school networking in seven regions of the world, and focuses on the variety of school networking models that have emerged in different regions and the resulting trends and issues that need to be considered in terms of supporting the learning, teaching, management and teacher training processes. Commonwealth of Learning, 2004.
Perspectives on Distance Education: Telecentres: Case studies and key issues (Management* Operations * Applications* Evaluation). Edited by Colin Latchem and David Walker. This is the first book to be published on this important topic, and is an invaluable reference on community- and information technology-based telecentres in support of education and socio-economic development. The Commonwealth of Learning, 2001.
Perspectives on Distance Education: Quality assurance in higher education - selected case studies. Edited by Alan Tait, 1997. This publication marks the first collection to emerge from the work of the COL/ICDE quality assurance research group, chaired jointly by Jocelyn Calvert (Deakin University) and Alan Tait (UK Open University). It consists of a set of case studies of quality assurance practices in distance teaching universities, along with an introductory chapter by the editor. These case studies represent a significant addition to existing work in the field, particularly at a time when universities in many parts of the world and distance teaching universities, both new and established, are placing great emphasis on reviewing and, where necessary, revising what they do in accordance with established practices and principles of quality assurance. (88 pages)
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Perspectives on Distance Education: Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Edited by Prof. Prakash M. Deshpande and Dr. Ian Mugridge, 1994. Papers presented to a symposium on quality assurance (New Delhi, India; July 1994), including a commissioned literature review on quality assurance as well a series of articles written by experts in Australia, New Zealand and India. (105 pgs)
Perspectives on Distance Education: The Funding of Open Universities. Edited by Dr. Ian Mugridge, 1994. A collection of case studies, based on papers prepared for the COL/International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) symposium on funding and costing of open universities at the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) conference in Hong Kong (Nov. 1993). (122 pages)
Perspectives on Teacher Education: Teacher Education in Science, Mathematics and Technical/Vocational Subjects (Report of a Round Table on Teacher Education convened by The Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver, June 1992). Eighteen case studies. (193 pages)
Perspectives on Distance Education: Student Support Services: Towards More Responsive Systems. Edited by Robert Sweet, 1993. A literature review builds a context for changes in student support services by outlining developments in the mandate, operating principles, and practices, and curricular emphases of the distance teaching universities. Eight case studies describe the operation of student support services at institutions represented at a symposium convened by COL in Delhi, India, in June 1992: four open universities in India, the new distance education programme at Bangladesh's national university, and institutions in two non-Commonwealth countries, Thailand and Indonesia. The case studies are followed by a summary of issues raised in the discussions of the cases presented at the symposium. Both the literature and the cases document attempts to make student service systems more responsive to the needs of learners. The report concludes with a list of research priorities aimed at the development of more responsive support services. (115 pages)
Perspectives on Distance Education: Distance Education in Single and Dual Mode Universities. Papers presented to a Symposium on Reforms in Higher Education (New Delhi, August 1992). Edited by Dr. Ian Mugridge, 1992. (158 pages)
Perspectives on Distance Education: Distance Education in India. Abhimanyu Singh, Director, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, India; 1992.
Perspectives on Distance Education: Report of a Round Table on Training Distance Educators (COL Headquarters, Canada, 2 - 6 April 1990); October 1990.
