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A Basic Guide to OER and Guidelines for OER in Higher 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.  more...

Connections

FEBRUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER includes Healthy Communities; Asha Kanwar to become President of COL; Editorial: A U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO would hurt higher education; Expanding TVET in the Pacific; Fostering governmental support for OER; New Resources 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...

News Services

COL's news feeds on open and distance learning are RSS feeds that aggregate and filter content from reliable web sources selected by COL.

COL’s news feed service is fully automated through specified search parameters and is not otherwise vetted by human intervention.

COL’s Daily News website is a daily digest of the news feeds which have been hand-selected for relevance in relation to COL’s mandate.

Publications

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


CEMCA

COL's regional agency, the Commonwealth Education Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), implements COL's mandate in  Asia. more...

News

Current drafts of COL’s Three-Year Plan 2012-2015.

Asha Kanwar appointed President of the Commonwealth of Learning.

COL’s Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7): Abuja, Nigeria, November 2013.

18CCEM: Mauritius, 28 - 31 August 2012

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