TEL Community of Practice launches
19 August 2019
In collaboration with the Fiji National University (FNU), COL launched the Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL) Community of Practice (CoP) platform to develop a network of teachers across the Commonwealth who are adopting ...
A free, three-month online training programme on the Angular web application framework will be available to engineering students in Commonwealth countries starting 1 October 2019. Organised by COL in collaboration with Amphisoft Technologies, this ...
As part of the community linkage strategy in the ‘Teacher Futures’ model being implemented in Kenya, COL supported a two-day workshop from 22 to 23 July 2019 at the Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE) in Nairobi. The workshop aimed at ...
The Ministry of Education and the Rwanda Education Board (REB) held a stakeholder forum from July 16 to 17, 2019 in Kigali, bringing together a total of 49 delegates from the education sector to contribute to the design of “Teacher Futures”, a ...
A workshop on Mentorship in Teacher Professional Development was held at the Freetown Teachers College (FTC) from 17 to 21 June 2019, as part of COL’s support for the In-service Education and Training (INSET) programme in Sierra Leone. The workshop ...
Promoting quality OER in India
6 August 2019
COL, in collaboration with Odisha State Open University (OSOU), India organised a national workshop on ‘Promoting Quality Open Educational Resources (OER)’ from 17 to 19 June 2019.
Thirty eight participants from 14 state open universities across ...
Odisha State Open University (OSOU) began its adoption of COL’s Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA) programme at a three-day training workshop for teachers at the Sambalpur campus from 26 to 28 June 2019.
Thirty ...
COL President and CEO delivers keynote address at Pan-Africa distance education conference in Nigeria
1 August 2019
COL President and CEO Professor Asha Kanwar delivered a keynote address at the eighth Distance Education and Teachers’ Training in Africa (DETA) Conference at the University of Lagos, Nigeria on 24 July 2019.
In her address, ‘Educating the ...
Following the devastation of Hurricane Maria and the estimated USD $930 million of damage to the economy in September 2017, Dominica is on a path to becoming a climate-resilient nation. With support from COL, Dominica’s Ministry of Education and ...
COL’s work in the Technical and Vocational Skills Development (TVSD) initiative has helped more than 100 African technical institutes build their capability in flexible and blended (FaB) learning over the last nine years. Institutional partners have ...
