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50 Years of ERIC
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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Mpofu, John; Chimhenga, Sylod; Mafa, Onias – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Students with Hearing Impairment (HI) are experiencing learning problems in most institutions of Higher Learning in Zimbabwe. Access to colleges and universities is limited and where they are accepted, there are no facilities to cater for their needs, hence there is need to develop learning materials that enable these students to learn effectively…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Open Universities, Foreign Countries, Distance Education
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Mpofu, John; Chimhenga, Sylod; Mafa, Onias – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Zimbabwe Distance Open University is enrols students from both urban and rural settings. The majority of students living and working in rural areas have limited or no access to computers and electricity as a result the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the learning process is very limited. Though government has realized the…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Educational Technology, Information Technology, Open Universities
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Mafa, Onias; Gudhlanga, Enna Sukutai – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
An examination is an important component of any institution that educates people. It is a form of assessment used to measure the students' understanding of the concepts and principles they would have learnt. Zimbabwe Open University, an Open and Distance Learning institution has been setting its own examinations for the academic programmes…
Descriptors: Identification, Open Universities, Quality Control, Item Banks