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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Open and Flexible TVET in Commonwealth Pacific Countries
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Neal, Terry – Commonwealth of Learning, 2011
This report examines the current state of open and flexible technical-vocational education and training (TVET) in nine Pacific Commonwealth countries: Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has commissioned the Open Polytechnic to complete this report to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Educational Change
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 Education,…
Descriptors: Open Education, Distance Education, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
Report on the Training Consultancy to Build Capacity of ODL Practitioners in the area of Design, Development and Management of Distance Education Study Materials in Lesotho
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van Rooy, Sonja – Commonwealth of Learning, 2008
This report details the outcome of the "Build capacity of ODL Practitioners in the area of Design, Development and the Management of Study Materials - Lesotho" workshop undertaken by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) from 25 August to 5 September 2005 in Maseru, Lesotho. The purpose of this training was to provide training to ODL practitioners in…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Workshops, Instructional Materials, Foreign Countries
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
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