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Joseph Manase – Journal of Learning for Development, 2025
This research explores the social-cultural factors influencing learners' preferences for Open and Distance Learning (ODL). Specific objectives were to investigate the social-cultural factors influencing learners' choice of ODL, and the role of higher education in promoting preference for ODL and to identify challenges facing ODL. Case study design…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Open Education, Distance Education
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Kassim, Halima-Sa'adia; Rampersad, David – Journal of Learning for Development, 2022
This paper considers the widening access and participation agenda, its implications for higher education institutions (HEIs) and contends that it must be underpinned by strategic measurement and monitoring. Access is viewed through the following lenses: (i) supporting participation, and (ii) facilitating equity. Using mixed methods, the paper…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Conventional Instruction, Open Education
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Cossa, Sérgio Paulo; Ramos, Fernando – Journal of Learning for Development, 2022
This article describes part of the results, taken from ongoing initial research, on the potential of new media in distance education. The article explores the technological conditions that students involved in Open and Innovative Schooling (OIS) experience, focusing on the fifteen schools in Mozambique. Participants were selected by intentional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Distance Education, Open Education
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Naidu, Som; Roberts, Keith J. – Journal of Learning for Development, 2018
Affordable access to higher education is a major challenge for small Pacific island nations. The University of the South Pacific which is owned and governed by twelve island nations in this region plays a special role in meeting this challenge. In its fiftieth year, a few recent developments at USP provide a useful case study for how this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Futures (of Society), Pacific Islanders, Access to Education
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Mitra, Sushmita – Journal of Learning for Development, 2014
Most countries have enshrined the right to education in their constitution but, in reality, to fulfil this commitment, countries do face a number of challenges. And this is true with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which unlike other countries has a long history of war, conflicts, insurgency, and hence insecurity. Although there have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feasibility Studies, Open Education, Developing Nations
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Nkuyubwatsi, Bernard – Journal of Learning for Development, 2016
Policies play a critical role in the implementation of open, distance education and opening up higher education. To encourage participation of different stakeholders in related practices, policies may need to embody values and benefits for those stakeholders. It is in this perspective that this study was conducted to investigate the policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Access to Education
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Creed, Charlotte; Morpeth, Roslyn Louise – Journal of Learning for Development, 2014
Emergency and conflict in countries such as Syria, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan have made us more aware of the long-term serial disruption and psychosocial damage faced by people caught up in emergency and conflict areas. Open, distance and flexible learning (ODFL) has sometimes been employed in these regions to maintain a degree of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Conflict, Natural Disasters