{"id":1179,"date":"2018-11-29T10:50:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:40:16","slug":"mena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/mena\/","title":{"rendered":"Online learning in tertiary education in the Middle East and North Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iet.open.ac.uk\/people\/agnes.kukulska-hulme\">Agnes Kukulska-Hulme<\/a>, Professor of Learning Technology and Communication, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/research\/people\/gm2557\">Giles Mohan<\/a>, Professor of International Development, have directed a research project to better understand the potential of and hindrances to, online learning in the MENA region.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s findings are outlined in the report:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/research\/sites\/www.open.ac.uk.research\/files\/files\/Documents\/Online%20learning%20in%20tertiary%20education%20in%20the%20Middle%20East%20and%20North%20Africa%20.pdf\"><em>Online learning in tertiary education in the Middle East and North Africa<\/em><\/a>, which was launched by the OU on Wednesday 28 November 2018 to mark\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/worldaccesshe.com\/\">World Access to Higher Education Day<\/a>, a platform to raise global awareness around inequalities in access and success in Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full story on the adoption of online learning in the MENA region at <a href=\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/education-languages-health\/education\/ou-predicts-increase-in-lifelong-learning-in-middle-east-and-north-africa\/\">OU news<\/a> by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/author\/hannah-grimmette\/\">Hannah Grimmette<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Professor of Learning Technology and Communication, and\u00a0Giles Mohan, Professor of International Development, have directed a research project to better understand the potential of and hindrances to, online learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opentel-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/opentel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}