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Survey dataset on open and distance learning students’ intention to use social media and emerging technologies for online facilitation [PDF]

Data in Brief, 2020
Open and Distance Learning (ODL) students rely majorly on the use of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) tools for online facilitation and other activities supporting learning.
Oladiran Tayo Arulogun, Oluwatobi Noah Akande, Akinyinka Tosin Akindele, Taofeeq Alabi Badmus   +3 more
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Digital Presence and Online Identity among Digital Scholars: A Thematic Analysis

Social Sciences, 2023
In today’s postdigital society, the public presence of academics on the Web and the consequent affirmation of a given identity or of a multidimensional identity imply a much more complex and multifaceted management of their image than when we were ...
António Quintas-Mendes, Ana Paiva
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Bakgomong: The Babirwa’s transboundary pastoralist identity and social change in late 19th century Botswana

Contree, 2016
To follow is a critical narrative on the intersection between identity production and transformations in the indigenous herding systems of the Babirwa of pre-colonial Botswana.
Phuthego Molosiwa
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Self-devised assistive techniques by university students with learning disabilities

African Journal of Disability, 2023
Background: Access to assistive technology for disabilities is limited in low-resource settings. Therefore, existing research focuses on accessibility challenges.
Ndakaitei Manase
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Mapping Minds in Motion: A Scholarly Voyage and Evaluation of Research Trends and Patterns in Open Praxis

Open Praxis
This study offers a systematic and critical examination of the research trends, thematic patterns, and scholarly evolution of Open Praxis during the 2023–2024 publication period.
Aras Bozkurt, Hasan Uçar, Serpil Koçdar   +2 more
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White man’s disease, black man’s peril?: Rinderpest and famine in the eastern Bechuanaland Protectorate at the end of the 19th century

Contree, 2014
During the late nineteenth century, a pandemic of Rinderpest exterminated large numbers of cattle in Southern Africa. Although in the Bechuanaland Protectorate the disease killed cattle only for two years between 1896 and 1897, its effects were to last ...
Phuthego P. Molosiwa
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The extent of and reasons for non re-enrolment: A case of Korea National Open University

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2013
Despite continuous efforts to increase retention, dropout rates are high in distance universities. The objectives of this study were: 1) to investigate the extent and causes of non re-enrollment at a mega university, Korea National Open University; and 2)
Hyoseon Choi, Yekyung Lee, Insung Jung, Colin Latchem   +3 more
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A Collaborative Approach to OER Policy and Guidelines Development in the Commonwealth: The Case of Botswana, Cameroon, and Sri Lanka

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Access to relevant learning resources is an important aspect in ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all as outlined in the sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4).
Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena, Shironica P. Karunanayaka, Michael N. Nkwenti, Lekopanye Tladi   +3 more
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Learning Management System (LMS) for Academic Inclusion and Learning Agency: An Interpretive Review of Technoprogressivism in ODL Instructional Technology Policy

Journal of Education, Society & Multiculturalism, 2023
Literature frequently describes how ineffective implementation of instructional policy frameworks can make distance learning a lonely and unrewarding academic pursuit, characterized by high student drop-out rates, high failure rates and academic ...
Nkambule Bongani, Ngubane Sindile, Mncube Siphamandla   +2 more
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Teaching theology from a distance: Experiences of the Institute of Distance Learning at St Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow, Russia

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
This article considers the basic problem of online education owing to the lack of direct contact between all participants in the study process. The experience of distance theological education in Russia as a whole and the personal experience of two of ...
Gennady Egorov, Tatiana V. Melanina, Jennifer J. Roberts   +2 more
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