Consultants' Reports and Research Studies

This report examines the current state of open and flexible technical‐vocational education and training (TVET) in nine Pacific Commonwealth countries: Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has commissioned the Open Polytechnic to complete this report to assist COL understand where best to target its efforts in these countries.

Commissioned by Commonwealth of Learning as Phase I (Investigating the Current Reality) of a Three-phased regional Pacific project, 2010 - 2013. Implemented by the University of the South Pacific in collaboration with Pacific communities.

The historical perspective of open schooling in India is provided in the full report but it is worth noting that the National Open School set up in 1989 morphed into the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in 2002. NIOS soon became a remarkable example of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) at the school level benefiting generations of children by giving them self-esteem through the education path. Almost all the State Open Schools in India depend on NIOS for several inputs and therefore, the full Report dwells at length on many striking features of NIOS.

Stakeholder survey (evaluation) conducted mid-term, 2009-2012

This report is an independent publication commissioned by COL on behalf of a group of partner institutions.

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) initiated and implemented a three day awareness and training workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). This report details the session conducted for the Africa region. Twenty eight participants (54% female), from 11 African countries (plus 3 participants from India) took part in the workshop.

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) was approached to support a workshop on multimedia learning in Swaziland, and engaged this consultant to facilitate this workshop during August 23-27th, 2010. This report details the outcome of the training workshop held at the University of Swaziland campus in Manzini, Swaziland. The objective of the 5-day workshop was to expose ODL practitioners - instructors and teachers at institutions involved in open and distance learning, to a broad but basic overview of multimedia learning methods and techniques.