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Bell, Simon; Douce, Chris; Caeiro, Sandra; Teixeira, Antonio; Martín-Aranda, Rosa; Otto, Daniel – Open Learning, 2017
Higher Education (HE) is experiencing disruption from technologies, demographics, the globalising world and longer life expectancy. Historically Higher Education has had a legacy of being seen as the requirement for an educated "elite", there has been a policy ambition set in various countries (including the UK) for it to become the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Sustainability, Distance Education
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Graber, Mark; Bolt, Susan – Open Learning, 2011
In this case study the delivery of business courses as a result of the partnership between the African Virtual University (AVU) and Curtin University in Western Australia is described. From 2004 to 2008, degree and diploma business courses were delivered using WebCT in the four AVU partner locations: Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), Kigali…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Higher Education
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West, Paul; Daniel, John – Open Learning, 2009
The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) was conceived by ministers at their triennial Conference of Commonwealth Ministers of Education in 2000. The Commonwealth of Learning was asked to investigate possible models, and presented a proposal to ministers at their next conference in 2003. The concept of a virtual…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Qualifications, Virtual Universities, Educational Resources