This book presents a review of Chinese experience in e-learning by analyzing statistics and reports of the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Education, data and information from e-learning colleges and the open university system websites, and cases and materials from some e-learning colleges and open universities. It outlines the ba...

Most government institutions, NGOs and other stakeholders seem to be implementing a top-down approach in their national development strategies and as such poverty persists in most rural communities in the developing countries of the Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa regions. As such policies implemented by these various stakeholders are ineffecti...

The UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education (INRULED) commissioned a study on “Education and Training for Rural Transformation: Skills, Jobs, Food and Green Future to Combat Poverty” (May 2012) which provided considerable evidence for the marginalisation of rural populations and the incidence of poverty within rural ar...

The purpose of this Guide is to provide concepts, models, activities, steps and principles for those developing professional support systems for teachers in rural areas. This is in response to a piece of research done by the joint research project of UNESCO International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education (INRULED) and UNESCO Internat...