SERVICES  

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COL can help with:

• Development of educational policies
• National and regional fora
• Teacher training programmes
• Literacy and livelihood/skills training
• Rural development, agricultural education and environmental management
• Programmes for orphaned and vulnerable children
• Quality assurance and institutional capacity-building
• Training of distance educators
• Educational technology applications
• Non-formal and health education
• Facilitating multi-provider delivery consortia
• E-learning

COL offers (SERVICES):

• Internship and attachment programmes
• Start-up guides and training manuals
• Knowledge resources and publications
• Web and Internet services
• Commonwealth-wide materials licensing
• Course delivery and design for international organisations (fee-for-service)

Examples:

• Regional ODL centres (Nigeria and Botswana, clearing house for regional experience and available expertise)
• Southern Africa teacher training programme (STAMP 2000+)
• Commonwealth Executive MBA/MPA programme
• Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
• Information Resource Centre
• COL Knowledge Finder (Internet search tool)
• Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning
• Regional institutes (African vice-chancellors, heads of teacher training agencies)
• Support for distance education professional associations
• Commonwealth of Learning Media Empowerment programme (COLME)
• Community radio and video
• Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (under development)
• Poverty Reduction Outcomes Through Education Innovations and Networks programme (COLPROTEIN, supporting innovative uses of ODL to address poverty alleviation in rural areas)