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…
Category: Open & Distance Learning
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…
Call for Proposals for Gender Equity in Open Schooling
COL’s Open Schooling initiative seeks proposals for COL’s new financial year starting in July 2020. We are seeking proposals that will address a gender inequality challenge in…
Global Quality in Online, Open, Flexible and Technology Enhanced Education
This report was developed to provide a platform for development of guidelines for quality in online, open, flexible and technology enhanced education in all regions…
COL releases Guidelines on Distance Education during COVID-19
“COL has released a new publication to assist stakeholders in using distance learning to minimise disruptions caused by the pandemic and help them build resilient…
International Partnership of Distance and Online Learning for COVID-19 Launched
“20 April 2020, Burnaby, BC, Canada — The unprecedented impact of COVID-19 on teaching and learning is a worldwide concern, with over 1.5 billion learners…
Keeping the doors of learning open COVID-19
With an increasing number of states, provinces and even whole countries closing institutions of learning as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, 363 million learners…
Six Nigerian states to pilot open schooling system
Image: Dr Tony Mays – Education Specialist: Open Schooling – Commonwealth of Learning The Federal Government has selected six northern states for the pilot phase…
Webinar: UN UNESCO OER Recommendations, the Way Forward for Member Countries
195 UNESCO member states adopted the UNESCO Recommendation for Future International Collaboration in the field of Open Educational Resources (OER) in November 2019. This is…