Welcome to the Sub-Saharan African Open and Distance Learning Knowledge
Base
UNESCO has completed the first phase of developing a consolidated information
system and database on ODL in sub-Saharan Africa. The broader purpose of this
‘knowledge base’ is to offer an integrated knowledge guide to distance
education and open learning. The knowledge base includes selected readings,
reports of good practice, and other information tools, targeted to help public
and private organizations, and individuals using distance education as a means
of human development in the education sector, beginning with higher education.
Developing countries, in particular, have not benefited from the growth of online
resources on distance education nor from the systematization of knowledge from
other developed and developing counties on distance education.
This site is implemented as a partnership venture between the UNESCO Harare Cluster office, the World Bank, and the Global Distance Education Network (GDENet), a knowledge guide to distance education designed to help
clients of the World Bank and others interested in using distance education
for human development. The Network consists of a core site located at the World
Bank and regional sites in all parts of the world. This is the regional site
for Southern Africa.
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Open and Distance Learning Systems
This domain explores the theory and conceptualisation of open and distance learning, distance learning systems, and policy and legislation of distance learning. |
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