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Direct linkHillier, Mathew – Distance Education, 2018
This paper explores a proposal for an off-line e-learning platform that will provide a bridge for digitally unconnected students and educators to join the contemporary information and communications technology (ICT) intensive world. Individual remote and unconnected learners face a chicken and egg problem for engagement with contemporary…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Program Proposals, Systems Approach
Gregory, Janet; Salmon, Gilly – Distance Education, 2013
Almost every higher education institution is challenged to develop increasing numbers of staff to teach online or blended modes of learning. The process needs to be rapid, cost-effective and lead directly to practical outcomes. From our experience, we had little time, opportunity or the need to start from scratch, and we chose to adopt and adapt a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Blended Learning
Dhlamini, Nodumo – Distance Education, 2011
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), established in 2004, is a network of 25 universities at the postgraduate level in 15 countries in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. RUFORUM's mission is to strengthen the capacity of universities to foster innovations responsive to demands of smallholder farmers…
Descriptors: Expertise, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Consortia
Download full textNaidu, Som – Distance Education, 1987
As a regional institution serving the needs of 11 different island nations of the South West Pacific, the University of the South Pacific (USP) is, along with its on-campus face-to-face teaching activity, deeply committed to and reliant on distance study methods. Both of these activities at the university are the principal responsibility of a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design
Peer reviewedCrick, Malcolm – Distance Education, 1980
Argues for the development of group intervention techniques to improve the efficacy of course teams in the preparation of distance education materials, reviews recent commentaries on course teams and discusses related issues, and conludes with recommendations to enrich the quality of course team life and output. (Author/EAO)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Extension Education, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics
Sims, Rod; Dobbs, Graeme; Hand, Tim – Distance Education, 2002
A major issue confronting educators is the extent to which they wish to conform to so-called paradigm shifts in teaching and learning. In the contemporary world of tertiary education these shifts embrace both pedagogy (from instructivist to constructivist) and technology (from classroom to online). As teachers and learners are faced with the…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Evaluation Criteria, Online Courses, Formative Evaluation
