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Technology-Enabled Learning in the Commonwealth Countries: A Research Synthesis
Burnaby, British Columbia (CA): Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2025), iv, 50 pp.
Quality and Equity in Digital Learning: Policy Brief
Burnaby, BC: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2021), 15 pp.
"High-quality digital learning offers potential economic and social advantages but also could easily lead to a widening gap between economically advanced and low-income countries. Within countries without suitable policy, it could also generate increasing inequity between the rich, who can afford th
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Guidelines on Open and Distance Learning for Youth and Adult Literacy
Hamburg; Burnaby: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2021), ix, 89 pp.
Guidelines on Distance Education During COVID-19
Burnaby, Canada: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2020), 14 pp.
"The Guidelines provide practical directions for the use of distance education tools and practices to support teaching and learning and offer suggestions on the use of appropriate technology to address the social and pedagogical issues of learning in a crisis situation. The purpose is to provide a r
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Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs and Transformation
Paris; Burnaby: UNESCO; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 231 pp.
"Open Educational Resources (OER) — teaching, learning and research materials that their owners make free for others to use, revise and share — offer a powerful means of expanding the reach and effectiveness of worldwide education. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO co-organised the W
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Measuring Empowerment Toolkit: Using the Commonwealth of Learning’s Three-Dimensional Empowerment Framework
Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), vii, 35 pp.
"This toolkit is designed for development practitioners, government officials, academics, monitoring and evaluation specialists, and researchers who are interested in measuring empowerment. The learning objectives of this toolkit are: Users gain a general understanding of empowerment and empowerment
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Guide to Developing Open Textbooks
Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 62 pp.
"The Guide to Developing Open Textbooks has been developed to assist teachers, teaching support personnel and educational technology administrators to: 1. understand the value of open education, OER and open textbooks for teaching and learning; 2. appreciate the potential value of developing an open
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Guidelines for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of MOOCs
Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), v, 27 pp.
"Two main factors influence how we might assess the quality of a massive open online course (MOOC): purpose and perspective. By purpose we mean the reason(s) the MOOC has been developed and facilitated. By perspective we mean who is measuring the quality. These two factors are intrinsically linked.
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A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Paris; Vancouver: UNESCO; Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2015), iv, 133 pp.
"This Guide comprises three sections. The first – a summary of the key issues – is presented in the form of a set of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’. Its purpose is to provide readers with a quick and user-friendly introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER) and some of the key issues to t
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Quality Assurance Toolkit for Open and Distance Non-Formal Education
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), ix, 99 pp.
"Quality assurance (QA) systems applied in educational contexts are generally concerned with inputs — how much money is spent, what staffing, resources and support are provided, what kinds of teaching and learning are involved, and so on. There is an assumption — not always fulfilled — that th
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Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
Inspiring Practice
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), viii, 148 pp.
"This publication provides readers with fresh insights into the practice of participatory educational communication. The first section explores the educational potential of community media, reaching from participatory radio campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa to school radios in Brazil. The second secti
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The Message Matrix: A Participatory Programme Design Tool
In: Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), pp. 99-111
"The message matrix facilitates local stakeholder groups and community members to take an active, empowered role in content development for an educational communication programme. The method enables active participation of target audiences and stakeholder groups in the identification, analysis and r
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Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), xiii, 152 pp.
"The authors of all kinds of works, from the humble email to blockbuster films, rely on copyright to protect what they produce. But authors and those who use their work are often unclear about what copyright allows and what it prohibits. This book was written for those who want to learn about copyri
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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
Inspiring Practice
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.
"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving
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Editing Educational Materials: A Course for Editors in Sub-Saharan Africa
Key Guidance
Vancouver; Washington, DC: Commonwealth of Learning (COL); World Bank (2007), 65 pp.
"This is an excellent resource for all those keen to acquire editorial skills. It is part of a series of distance learning tools currently being developed by the World Bank’s API in collaboration with the African Publishers Network and partner universities. Each self-learning programme will consis
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Perspectives on Distance Education: Educational Media in Asia
Top Insights
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2005), 206 pp.
"The book opens with a review of the key issues in using media for education. It then proceeds through five country studies, written by highly qualified and experienced policy-makers and practitioners of educational media. The country studies are followed by research reviews that synthesise the majo
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