Chapter 1: The Need for and Nature of Open Schooling
Chapter 1 explores the need for and nature of open schooling. It also outlines some of the ways in which COL has sought to help…
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Addressing the Learning Needs of Out-of-School Children and Youths through the Expansion of Open Schooling
Abstract At any one time, about 300 million children of school going age are not in school. Experience indicates that when schooling is disrupted, whether…
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…
Designing hybrid learning in a Covid-19 era: a video of my presentation to CiCan members
“I had the privilege on June 12 to give a 37 minute Zoom presentation and discussion to members of Colleges and Institutes Canada, a national…
Building education resilience: focus of the Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning in 2022
“The Commonwealth of Learning is pleased to announce that the 10th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF10) will be held in Calgary, Canada, in September 2022,…
Narend Baijnath named Chair of the Board of Governors of Commonwealth of Learning
“Professor Narend Baijnath, Chief Executive Officer, Council on Higher Education (CHE), South Africa has been named Chair of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth…
50,000 unemployed citizens of the Commonwealth can now gain skills with COL- Coursera support
“The COL-Coursera Workforce Recovery Programme has now been scaled up to offer new skills to 50,000 unemployed citizens of the Commonwealth. Launched in May 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 —…