Ross Shaw

Basic Trades for Small Island Nations

In response to requests from the small island states of the Pacific region, COL, working in partnership with the Pacific Association of Technical, Vocational Education and Training (PATVET) produced a series of courses titled Basic Trades for Small Island Nations. This series provided the resources to teach people in remote communities the basic trade skills … Read more

Literacy and Numeracy for Basic Trades

In order to assist with literacy development to aid in the full utilisation of the Basic Trades for Small Island States, COL, working with the Oloamanu Centre of the National University of Samoa and with the support of PATVET, developed a course on basic vocational literacy and numeracy for basic trades. Educators from six Pacific … Read more

Research Skills Development at USP

Integration of research literacy and skills in USP curricula is intended to produce graduates who are ‘discerning consumers’ of information, able to undertake research and apply research findings to address various challenges facing the Pacific region. BACKGROUND TO RSD AT USP Under the Strategic Total Academic Review (STAR) process at the University of the South … Read more

COL PREST Programme

With the continuing interest and investment in e-learning and other forms of distance education, comes increased interest in research as a means to direct innovation and determine cost and learning effectiveness. However, conducting (and evaluating) quality research requires a set of skills that are not always available to distance education institutions, nor individual practitioners. To … Read more

What is sustainable development?

There are over 300 definitions of the term. Most used, is this one from the World Commission on Environment and Development Report 1987 – also known as the Brundtland Commission. ‘Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’ Resources of sustainable development: View … Read more

Why mobile learning?

John Traxler is Professor of Mobile Learning, probably the world’s first and a full UK professor, and Director of the Learning Lab at the University of Wolverhampton. He is a Founding Director of the International Association for Mobile Learning, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and of Interactive Learning Environments. He is on the Research Board of the Association of Learning Technology, the Editorial Board of Research in Learning Technology and IT in International Development.

In this video, prepared for a Standford University MOOC on ‘designing a new learning environment’, John talks about the importance of mobile learning for the future. (6.53)

mLearning at USP

A PowerPoint presentation from the Faculty of Science, technology and Environment explaining what is mobile learning why should we use mobile learning? the history of mlearning at USP the research on mlearning done at USP You can access the PowerPoint from the USP website here – it is also shared in the documents for this … Read more

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