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While COVID-19 continues to cause stress and disruptions in learning across the formal, informal and non-formal education sectors, open and distance learning can support the learning process. Silver Lining for Learning, a weekly live conversation ...

Betty Wule is a 40-year-old widow from a village in the district of Lira, Uganda, who has to provide for her five children while also taking care of five orphans from her late relatives. She has tried to make ends meet by growing beans, maize and ...

With support from COL, Dominica’s Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development (MEHRD) is promoting climate change resilience through a series of public education messages under the theme Update, Upgrade for a More Resilient Dominica. A ...

#learningneverstops COL has joined partners from across the globe to support countries in scaling up their best distance learning practices and reaching children and youth who are most affected by COVID19 via the Global Education Coalition. ...

Updated 31 MARCH 2020 Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, COL and the OER Foundation (OERF), New Zealand have joined forces to establish an Open Educational Resources for COVID (OER4COVID) community. The goal is to assist education ...

COL has produced the latest issue of its Journal of Learning for Development (JL4D) featuring a wide range of articles, case studies and book reviews on technology-enabled learning (TEL). Major highlights include an editorial penned by Professor ...

To support teacher transition to the new demands generated by the COVID-19 crisis, COL and Athabasca University (AU), Canada are offering two massive open online courses (MOOCs) on online learning. The popular MOOC on Introduction to Technology- ...

Honourable Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, expressed interest in extending COL’s Lifelong Learning for Farmers (L3F) model of linking informal learning outcomes to credit and finance by way of a special programme to enhance ...

Download the digital version (PDF) from OAsis Sign up to receive email updates from COL   COVER STORY COL delivers through innovation “Learning is our common wealth and the key to our common future.”  ...

Responding to the global COVID-19 crisis and with a view to mitigate the disruption of activities at various institutions, COL announces a series of webinars on online learning.  There will be nine technical webinar sessions, covering: taxonomy ...