An oft-cited figure from a 2015 UNESCO statement forecasts that higher education demand will swell to 414 million prospective learners by 2030. The scenario of building large, new institutions each week to accommodate such demand would certainly not ...
Worldwide, there are 190 million unemployed people, of which 75 million are youth. In order to address this gap, two strategies are needed: (i) skills development, and (ii) job creation. With 60 per cent of the Commonwealth’s population under 30 ...
Key trends in Technology-Enabled Learning in 2018
6 February 2018
Several key trends in technology-enabled learning have emerged recently. A significant report from The Open University UK is the Innovating Pedagogy 2017 which highlights 10 key trends, including open textbooks, immersive learning, learning ...
GIRLS Inspire – Reaching the Unreached (RtU) project was launched to reach women and girls who are prevented from attending school by barriers such as early marriage, cultural norms and distance from schools in remote and disadvantaged ...
India-based farmers adopt innovative marketing strategies to upscale their business
15 November 2017
Most of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations, and agreed by 193 countries, directly or indirectly relate to ensuring the livelihood security of farming communities – one of the most marginalized sections of ...
Looking Beyond the World OER Congress
19 October 2017
The 2nd World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress came to an end with the adoption of the Ljubljana OER Action Plan by 415 delegates from 96 countries. UNESCO, in collaboration with the Government of Slovenia, organised the Category IV ...
The place of the teacher in the learning process continues to be the focus of many initiatives in education for development. A recent publication by the World Bank suggests that teachers remain the most important factor affecting learning in schools ...
"A call to empower teachers to lead the next wave of the OER movement" was originally published as "A call to empower teachers to lead the next wave of the OER movement" in the July 2017 issue of Connections, as part of the regular ...
MOOCs, lifelong learning and a need for collaboration
27 March 2017
"MOOCs, lifelong learning and a need for collaboration" was originally published in the March 2017 issue of Connections, as part of the regular feature "Tech Trends".
Recent trends show that there is a growing convergence of approaches ...
Is ‘service’ the new secret of OER sustainability?
27 February 2017
2017 is being celebrated as the Year of Open. Fifteen years ago the term Open Educational Resources (OER) was coined, and the Budapest Open Access Initiative was launched. Five years later, the Cape Town Open Education Declaration came out. And in ...
