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

OCTOBER 2011 NEWSLETTER  
includes Caribbean Teachers embrace ICT; COL Leads Global Push for OER; New Instructional Design Tool; TVET in Africa; OER for Open Schools; Trials in Social Networking for eLearning; New Resources and EdTech News.  more...

VUSSC

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 are available for comment.

Australia re-joins as a financial partner of COL.

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

New resources...

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