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…
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…
Report to Commonwealth Education Ministers: FROM RESPONSE TO RESILIENCE
“The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact. Closures of schools and colleges aimed at slowing the spread of infection took 90% of the world’s…
Education in the time of COVID-19
“As of March 18, 849 million children and students have been forced out of schools and universities in a total of 113 countries. Read three…