Our primary aim is to develop high quality educational resources for secondary schools which will be freely available under the CC-BY license.In developing the content for this initiative , all partners invest in building the capacity of teachers to increase the effective use of technology in classrooms.
Welcome to the Flexible Skills Development Community Learning Network or CLN.
Commonwealth of Learning is working in partnership with the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa - CAPA - to support their member institutions who are working to integrate ICT into TVET teaching and learning. This activity is called Flexible Skills Development or FSD.
Through this network we aim to support a community of practitioners who are dealing with the challenges of expanding their use of ICT to increase institutional efficiency, expand access to TVET and improve the quality of teaching.
OpenSchoolingConnect, a community for educators interested in using technology to expand access to quality education. Join us in building this community.
COL's Healthy Communities initiative brings together communication and development partners from around the world using local media to support learning for community health and development.
Online space for community media groups/COL partners. Openly sharing ideas, practices and resources for professionals, interested in Community Media.
For COL partners working on community learning programme development.
A vareity of community learning programmes -- collaborative, participatory educational programmes using local media and mobile telephones -- created by COL partners as part of the Healthy Communities.
VUSSC is a collaborative network of the small states of the Commonwealth which aims to expand tertiary education.
The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) is a network of small countries committed to the collaborative development of free content resources for use in an educational context.
VUSSC and The Commonwealth of Learning
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) co-ordinates the development of the Virtual University of Small States of the Commonwealth on behalf of Commonwealth Ministers of Education.
The place to find about the Commonwealth's ICTs for Development programme. From E-Governance to ICTs for Education, via cyber-crime.
COL encourages the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies.
COL has made the use of OER an important component in all aspects of its work. COL has taken a holistic and process-oriented approach to OER, emphasing the delivery of products - mostly in the form of course materials.
COL, in collaboration with UNESCO, launched the initiative 'Taking OER beyond the OER community: Policy and Capacity' that supports governments and institutions through policy support, advocacy and capacity building, to introduce open educational practices (including OER) into teaching and learning (http://oerworkshop.weebly.com/).
The Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO are organising a series of three online discussion forums on aspects of Open Educational Resources. This is part of a joint COL/UNESCO initiative entitled, "Taking OER beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity" (http://oerworkshop.weebly.com).\n\nThis is an open invitation to participate in this online conversation over the coming months.\n* 23 - 29 September 2010: "Taking OER beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity"\n* 20 - 26 October 2010: "What works, what does not and under what conditions?"\n* 10 - 16 November 2010: "Copyright and the development and re-use of OERs"\n\nFurther information and detailed registration instructions are available at: http://oerworkshop.weebly.com/--online-discussion-forums.html\n
Following up on a draft resolution calling for the further promotion of OER that was presented by the USA at the 35th UNESCO General Conference (2009) and as part of a COL-UNESCO workplan agreement, COL and UNESCO have worked together in promoting Open Educational Resources (OER). This resolution was inspired by the Communiqué of UNESCO’s 2009 World Conference on Higher Education: The New Dynamics of Higher Education and Research For Societal Change and Development, which stated that Open and Distance Learning approaches and Information and Communications Technologies present opportunities to widen access to quality education, particularly when OER are readily shared among many countries and higher education institutions (Communiqué, 8 July 2009).