Open educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are either in the public domain or published on an open licence which permits various forms of redistribution, reuse and repurposing. Many organisations and higher education institutions around the world are using such resources, and anecdotally many believe this is…

Every year, students from different indigenous communities in Colombia set out on a journey to higher education. Although previous research has looked into students' challenges at university, there is still the need to understand indigenous students' mobility trajectories in terms of how they come to grips with the new material, semiotic, and…

Colombia, as other Latin American countries, has not been indifferent to the power of English as the language of business, international communication and academia. Since the end of the 20th century, there has been a great push in the country to promote the teaching of English: language policies have been formulated, ideal levels of proficiency…

This study of higher education efficiency evaluation consists of five country reports from five different regions of the world: Colombia, Jordan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Nigeria. The reports describe the approaches to the evaluation process in each country and in the process highlight common concerns and awareness. The studies were all…

This extensive report describes Colombian education under 86 primary subheadings in 14 chapters, as follows: 1) The national setting, 2) cultural and social influences on education, 3) educational landmarks and traditions, 4) school organization and administration, 5) planning and development, 6) preschool and elementary education, 7) public…

In this volume are surveyed some problems which arise in Latin American countries in the belief that even though solutions to them may differ somewhat from one country to another the conditions in which they arise are sufficiently similar to make comparisons possible and useful. After describing the uneven provision of schools for different…

A five-year project that used evidence from a variety of disciplines and cultures to develop a framework to help educational policymakers identify ways of achieving the full range of human potential in a given population is described. The project sponsor is an international non-profit institution dedicated to the cause of disadvantaged children…

This volume is intended as a guide to cross-cultural communication for American guests and Colombian hosts interacting with each other. For this study, American guests and Colombian hosts were asked to talk about themselves and each other. Part one, "Scenes of Guest-Host Miscommunication," discusses scenes of interaction between the…