Dear Oluniyi and All, I don't know if it is graduate level, but the Commonwealth Of Learning < www.col.org> teaches how to create Open and Distance Learning (ODL) modules, and probably still has staff in Nigeria (they're based in Vancouver, BC, Canada). They give small grants, too.
There are MOOCs in education, but I did not feel that the one I was in (at Stanford) was graduate level. You might find good resources if you search for the educational object economy, which was a salon series in Santa Clara, California around 2002 to 2004, that attracted lots of people who had been in Apple's and IBM's educational programs (as well as me). Aha! Given that Joy Tang, founder of the AIDS Relief Foundation, which became oneVillage Foundation, and operated in Ife, Nigeria, said that she found the Yoruba religion very close to Tibetan Buddhism, with many parallels, a great idea would be to contact the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, at Stanford University's School of Medicine. They created a curriculum for enabling students to come from a space of compassion and altruism, based on Tibetan Buddhist technologies provided by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and some of his fellow monks. CCARE says it has been adopted by over 2,000 schools. Since you are at OAU, you might go to the Sociology Department and ask if anyone knew Professor Akinsolo Akiwowo, who had headed the department, and who worked very effectively for the Indigenisation of Sociology, to free it from being bound by Western ideologies which had been used as the academic filter for understanding Nigerian (and all African) cultures. They should be able to point out his writings to you. Also of graduate school caliber is the long term development of the scientific support for recognizing that almost all children from inner city communities impacted by poverty suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and designing and validating highly effective self-interventions. Incoming community college students are taught to recognize the early signs of an emotional storm and nip it in the bud, as well as to form mutual support groups, and learn professional skills for academia and career. This is at the Academy for College Excellence at Cabrillo College, in Northern California -- www.my-ace.org or http://academyforcollegeexcellence.org/. The founder, James (Diego) Navarro, has maintained an extremely high standard of research and documentation for over a decade. The third brilliant exercise in education is the ethnic studies program in Phoenix, which was shut down 'with extreme prejudice' by the governor and legislature of Arizona, who stormed into classes in session, with police officers, to seize the books out of the hands of children in a K-12 program which had been established under a court mandate to provide quality education to the historically under-served Hispanic community. The program earned the ire of the right-wing politicians when it went from 43% graduating from high school to 92% succeeding in college and becoming community leaders. You can find their syllabus by looking for the Annotated Bibliography at www.librotraficante.com (Book Trafficers), which is now part of the Pacifica Radio Network, and has moved to Texas, where they are working to get every Hispanic community in the United States to study these books. Do check out OERu - Polytechnic opens a door to the world<http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/2ec2b0d3631a344a>, also! You could participate remotely in the Introductory meeting coming up, and find out who has recommendations for you. It's happening Thursday and Friday, Pacific (San Francisco) time. I hope that gives you a good start. I am copying Sahibou Oumarou, who is from Benin and Niger, and got his Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. Sahibou did his dissertation on the effects of transforming positive personal life history episodes into fairy tales and contemplating them daily. He was influenced by his exposure to the extensive, and potent, use of story-telling to socialize children in Africa. Regards, Mark Roest On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/topics > > - OERu - Polytechnic opens a door to the > world<#1420704b1800cde8_group_thread_0>[2 Updates] > > OERu - Polytechnic opens a door to the > world<http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator/t/2ec2b0d3631a344a> > > Oluniyi Oyeleke <[email protected]> Oct 29 10:28AM +0100 > > Dear Wayne, > I work as online tutor at Centre for Distance Learning, Obafemi Awolowo > University, Nigeria. I wish to enroll for graduate program in > e-learning, > could you please, link me to institutions offering such program? > thank you > Niyi > > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Wayne Mackintosh < > > > > > Don <[email protected]> Oct 29 09:04AM -0700 > > congrats > "Brave New World" > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Oluniyi Oyeleke > > > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WikiEducator" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. 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