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Perspectives on Distance Education:
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Achieving the MDGs

Achieving the MDGs will require a massive expansion of human learning. Traditional methods of education and training cannot address the scope and scale of the task.
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OCTOBER 2009 NEWSLETTER  
includes Education Ministers: Planning beyond 2015; UNESCO's World Conference on Higher Education; Supporting a New Open School in Cameroon; OERs: The Promise and the Pitfalls; New Resources; People; Events; and EdTech News. more...

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On behalf of Commonwealth Ministers of Education, COL is co-ordinating the development of a Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC). Thirty countries are now actively engaged in making the VUSSC a reality. more...

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Our daily bulletin on open and distance learning. It is an RSS feed that uses "Yahoo Pipes" and "Google News" which aggregate and filter content from reliable web sources selected by COL.
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Publications

A wide range of studies, reports and research documents have been published by COL. Most are available for download, free-of-charge, on this web site. more...

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The deadline for submission of abstracts for COL’s Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning is 31 January 2010. PCF6 will be held from 24 to 28 November 2010 at Le Méridien Cochin Resort & Convention Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India. www.col.org/pcf6