OE Global Conference
The Open Education Global Conference is where the world meets to discuss how opening education helps us achieve universal access, equity, innovation and opportunity in…
The Effect of Covid-19 on Education in Africa and its Implications for the Use of Technology
In May we encouraged the community to participate in the eLearning Africa / EdTech Hub Survey on Covid-19 and Education. The aim was to find…
Chernor Bah: Without schools, girls lose a network of social safety nets
Source: The Learnit Podcast Show notes – – Twitter: @Cee_Bah – More about Chernor’s work: www.wearepurposeful.org/ – Remote learning through radio broadcasting: www.unicef.org/wca/stories/covid-19-sierra-leone-education – Karo Kura, creative drama…
Digital Literacy Lab for Educators
The Commonwealth Centre for Connected Learning (3CL) and Dilectae to develop a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) entitled ‘Digital Literacy Lab for Educators’. This course…
COL’s work in Open Schooling
Dr. Tony Mays is currently the Education Specialist – Open Schooling, Commonwealth of Learning. In the following video Dr. Mays provides an update on COL’s…
The Blue Economy: Creating an Enabling Environment
The Commonwealth of Learning is once again partnering with the University of Seychelles to offer a second free MOOC on the Blue Economy! This free…
Three key components of the new school classroom
By Dr Tony Mays, COL Education Specialist: Open Schooling Source: originally published on the Commonwealth of Learning website at https://www.col.org/news/col-blog/three-key-components-new-school-classroom Children learn things naturally. With…
Prof. Rose Ruto-Korir Elected as COMOSA Chapter Chair for Africa
I am pleased to announce that Prof. Rose Ruto-Korir has been elected as the Chapter Chair for Africa, succeeding Charity Chibwe Mbolela Bwalya. Her position…
Elect Your New COMOSA Africa Chapter Chair
The role of Chapter Chair for Africa has become vacant and we are seeking to elect a new chair to continue the work of championing…
COL launches survey to improve website
The Commonwealth of Learning invites you to participate in a survey to improve the functionality and design of this website. Please click below to let us…
Education, inequality and innovation in the time of COVID-19
“On 13 March 2020, during the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa, JET Education Services (JET) released the special Bulletin, Extending the…
NIOS extends Education to Rural India through Live Programmes on Swayam Prabha TV
In pursuance of the directives of the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, and the need for necessary social distancing resulting in school closures, NIOS…