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Sri Lankan school principals were introduced to the content and learning activities of the COL supported School-Based Professional Teacher Development (SBPTD) programme being implemented in the country. A recent workshop organised in Colombo in ...

The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), in partnership with the National Institute of Education (NIE), Maldives organised a three-day online capacity building workshop for teachers in September 2020. The workshop ...

In the face of education disruptions and loss of livelihoods due to COVID-19, over 35,000 learners from the Caribbean have joined the COL-Coursera Workforce Recovery Initiative since May 2020, learning job-relevant skills and boosting their ...

COL’s Commonwealth Digital Education Leadership Training in Action (C-DELTA) programme has been nominated as a finalist for the Falling Walls 2020  award in the category of Digital Education. The awards are presented at the annual conference ...

COVID-19 was no barrier to 63 young Ugandans, who have been linked to jobs or internship opportunities in IT-related fields with COL’s support. Through the “ICT for youth employability” project implemented together with the Kampabits youth-based ...

There has been an increased focus on continuous professional development (CPD) of teachers due to COVID-19 to ensure they have the skills and competencies to respond to educational disruptions.  A recent workshop organised by COL in partnership ...

The seventh edition of the popular massive open online course (MOOC) on Introduction to Technology-Enabled Learning (TEL) will start on 4 October 2020. This course is designed for teachers in secondary, post-secondary and vocational education ...

Photo courtesy of Dr Shaheryar Naveed With COL’s support, the Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) was able to pursue its quality mandate in the face of COVID-19. Earlier this year, the university joined the COL-led International Partnership of ...

COL has published a new resource to help policy makers and education leaders re-think existing models of education and training for the post-COVID-19 world. Technology-Enabled Learning: Policy, Pedagogy and Practice documents the research and best ...

COL has partnered with the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), National Research University-Higher School of Economics (HSE) and Beijing Normal ...