A member of the European Union and the Commonwealth, Malta is a small state with a population of just over 523,000 (World Bank, 2022).
COL’s work in Malta is in the areas of higher education and technology-enabled learning and is part of the Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) network. Malta hosts the Commonwealth Centre for Connected Learning (3CL), COL’s regional centre. Participants from Malta have attended COL regional and international events, and learners have benefited from COL’s free online courses and other openly available resources.