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Managing Student Records in Distance Education

Records can tell stories about diverse groups of students that help institutions…

Mobile Learning in Developing Countries

Mobile learning, or m-learning, is a personal, unobtrusive, spontaneous, "anytime, anywhere" way…

Producing Gender-Sensitive Materials for Open and Distance Learning

Sensitivity to someone's gender is crucial, not only in life but also…

Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Learning

Assuring the quality of education provision is a fundamental aspect of gaining…

Tutoring in Open and Distance Learning

As the learning environment in distance education is intended to be highly…

Using Information and Communications Technology for Agricultural Extension

Agriculture is the mainstay of many low-income or developing nations' economies and…

Speeches: By Sir John Daniel and colleagues (August/September 2005)

This booklet contains the texts of six speeches that I delivered at…

Literacy & Livelihoods: learning for life in a changing world

This publication of collected papers resulted from the International Experts Meeting held…

The Art of the Possible: issues of learner support in open and distance learning in low income countries

Although the quotation above uses language which sounds rather dated fifteen years…

Education in Sierra Leone with Particular Reference to Open and Distance Learning and Information and Communication Technologies

Sierra Leone became a British Colony after Portuguese explorers became the first…

Networking Learning Communities for Development: The Commonwealth of Learning and the Millennium Development Goals

"Networking the Commonwealth for Development", the theme of this year's Commonwealth Heads…

Open and Distance Learning: Applications

COL's pan-Commonwealth Open Distance Learning Applications programme emphasises using ODL methods and…

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