Welcome to COL's Sharing our Services database. This database provides the means for open learning/distance education professionals to post offers of assistance in their specialist field and for institutions and/or organisations to search for those offering skills and expertise in a given area of open and distance learning. This, then, enables institutions/organisations to directly contact the professionals that may offer the skills they are seeking.
Sharing our Services is a self-serve, web-based database that aims to connect experienced educators, retired or otherwise, with distance education organisations/institutions that could benefit from their advice, training or professional input. The programme is designed to match those distance education professionals willing to offer their services at a nominal, or preferably no-fee, basis on short-term assignments with institutions/organisations in developing Commonwealth countries that would be interested in securing their services. Distance educators and requesting institutions register their information independently on this secure, online database and those that have registered may search the database for matches.
Distance education experience is classified under areas of expertise, e.g. instructional design.
Please note: If you are seeking a consultancy directly with COL, please click on link found at right. Thank you.
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Those offering skills and expertise register as follows:
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Click on the "Distance Education Senior Advisor register here" button and read the disclaimer and "agree" or "disagree". If you disagree, you will not be registered.
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If you agree, you will be transferred to the Login. If you do not have a password, click on "New Users click here", which will enable you to create one.
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You will be transferred to the Login page again. Enter your new password and user id.
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You will now be transferred to the official Distance Educators registration site, which allows you to enter your information to register. Please make sure you fill in all the REQUIRED fields marked with an asterisk (*).
If you have entered all required information, submit your entries. You have now registered successfully.
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You can give COL feedback by clicking on the "send us your feedback" link on the page "data successfully entered".
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Those seeking skills and/or expertise register as follows:
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Click on the "Institutions search here" button, read the disclaimer and "agree" or "disagree". If you disagree, you will not be able to register
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If you agree, you will be transferred to the Login. If you do not have a password, click on "New Users click here", which will enable you to create one
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You will be transferred to the Login page again. Enter your new password and user id.
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You will now be transferred to the official Institution Registry site, which allows you to enter your information to register. Please make sure you fill in all the REQUIRED fields marked with an asterisk (*).
If you have entered all required information, submit your entries. You have now registered successfully.
You can give COL feedback by clicking on the "send us your feedback" link on the "data successfully entered page.
If you would like to conduct a search for assistance, click on "conduct search" in the upper left corner of the first page on the Institutions Registry page and follow the steps..
Conditions:
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Both parties are encouraged to find each other through this database.
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Participants must agree to the terms of usage, before registering in the database.
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COL does not accept any responsibility whatsoever for the information entered into the database by either party.
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Those using this service do so at their own risk and are responsible for "due diligence" when ascertaining the validity and accuracy of the information provided.
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Through a personal login and password registrants have access to update, change or revise their personal profile. Please keep your profiles up-to-date.
Distance Educator eligibility:
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Distance education professionals with time available to take on assignments with institutions in developing countries of the Commonwealth.
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Registration in the Sharing our Services database.
Institution/organisation eligibility:
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Located in a Commonwealth country.
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An organisation, institution or non-governmental organisation (NGO) involved in or seeking to become involved in open and distance learning. Such bodies would normally be publicly funded or government appointed to provide education or training services to people residing in the country where they are located.
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Registration in the Sharing our Services database.
Should you have any questions, please contact the Commonwealth of Learning at: info@col.org, with "Sharing our Services" in the subject line.
COL is an intergovernmental organization created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. More ....
