Profile of the Month
Professor Mostafa Azad Kamal is presently working at Bangladesh Open University as the Dean of the School of Business. He is a Professor in International and Development Economics. He completed his graduate studies from the University of Namur, Belgium. He has been engaged in open and distance learning for more than 22 years. Professor Mostafa’s research interests are eLearning, OER, ODL, and quality assurance in higher education. He teaches economics, statistics, research methods, and quantitative techniques courses in MBA and Commonwealth MBA programmes offered by the School of Business, Bangladesh Open University. In addition, he is also a Creative Commons Fellow for Open Leadership. He is an instructional designer in eLearning and ODL. He received intensive training on the instructional design in ODL from the University of Waterloo and also on instructional design in eLearning from Open Polytechnic, New Zealand…. read more
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COL to host a discussion forum on smart education
COL, in collaboration with the UNESCO International Institute for Technology in Education (UNESCO IITE) and the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University (SLIBNU), has launched a project “Rethinking and…
Guidelines on Distance Education during COVID-19
Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has just released “Guidelines on Distance Education during COVID-19” as a resource for policymakers and practitioners in the Commonwealth and beyond. http://hdl.handle.net/11599/3576
Two MOOCs offered in collaboration with Athabasca University
To support teacher transition to the new demands generated by the COVID-19 crisis, COL and Athabasca University (AU), Canada are offering two massive open online courses (MOOCs) on online learning.…
COL launches OER4COVID support initiative
Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, COL and the OER Foundation (OERF), New Zealand have joined forces to establish an Open Educational Resources for COVID (OER4COVID) community. The goal is to assist education institutions…
Keeping the doors of learning open COVID-19
With an increasing number of states, provinces and even whole countries closing institutions of learning as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, over 80% of the world’s students are not…
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For those institutions who have been specialising in distance education for some time, although they may have had to make some changes, the last few months have not been overly problematic. But for the remaining majority of institutions, there has…
Microlearning can be viewed as a single objective-focused, outcome-based, stand-alone, meaningful, and interactive learning unit delivered in bite-sized snippets (i.e., a short modular format) either digitally (i.e., via computer, tablet, or mobile phone) or non-digitally (i.e., as via a flashcard…
Lastest Blog Posts
In an article published in Distance Education in 2017, I argued against conflating open educational resources (OER) with open education. In fact, since then there has been a growing tendency to use the term “open education” while discussing OER. This practice undermines…
Have you heard of TikTok? If not, let me introduce you to this new kid on the social media block that uses 15-second videos. It is currently one of the fastest growing apps with over 1 billion users, and 800…
by Barbara Khavugwi MakhayaeLearning Systems Support SpecialisteCampus of Maseno University, Kenya Maseno University is a public university in Kenya. The University established its eLearning department in 2010. The use of eLearning for high enrollment common courses is an emerging trend…