GIGA Connecting Every School to the Internet
“The COVID-19 outbreak has created a climate that poses a colossal threat, now and in the future, to children and their families —a grim reality…
Month: June 2020
Opinion: Reimagining education — this is the moment to think big
“When schools began shutting worldwide to combat the spread of COVID-19, a deepening global learning crisis followed. A generation of children and young people —…
UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis
NEW YORK, 20 April 2020 –UNICEF and Microsoft Corp. today announced the expansion of a global learning platform to help children and youth affected by…
Enter the 2021 Commonwealth Education Awards for good practice
Education institutions, teachers and school leaders can now submit entries for the 2021 Commonwealth education awards for good practice. Send in your entry for the 2021 Commonwealth Education Awards now. Deadline…
Sharing Africa’s knowledge through open data
“This post is the third in a series on sharing African research outputs, using open licensing. This post concentrates on open data. Open data means…
Enabling access to online learning for the poor
“Collis, V. and Vegas, E. (2020) Unequally disconnected: access to online learning in the US Brookings Institute Education plus Development, June 22 This blog post is…
Open Education in European Libraries of Higher Education
“This report summarises the results of a survey of European libraries on Open Education (OE) and Open Education Resources (OER) prepared by SPARC Europe in…
AoC president Steve Frampton: the future of assessment is now
“Currently when it comes to assessment in education, the sector is, like most others, still in the dark ages, with the standard pen and paper…
Blue Economy MOOC sparks learner interest in more than 70 countries
“Rapidly growing interest in the environmental and economic benefits of a successful Blue Economy has more than 1,200 learners participating in a free, five-week online…
Supporting blended learning at KAFUCO, Kenya
“COL has been working with Kaimosi Friends University College (KAFUCO) to implement technology-enabled learning (TEL) with the goal of building teacher capacity in blended learning.…
Where is the Quality Assurance? Sustaining Online and Blended Learning in the post-COVID-19 Context in Africa – and Beyond
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, university campuses across Africa have been urged to shift their teaching and learning online to stem the disruption to learners caused…