COL’s Open/Innovative Schooling (OIS) model increases access to secondary education, especially for out-of-school youth. With a view to analysing local needs, monitoring progress of existing... more
The National Institute for Distance Education (INED), within the Ministry of Education and Human Development in Mozambique, has been working with COL for some time on developing a more technology-... more
Peer-to-peer (P2P) quality review between regional open schools is an important part of COL’s open schooling mandate. COL initiated P2P activities for the development of common criteria for review of... more
Having completed the development of curriculum-based OER using OER in Phase 1 of the Open/Innovative Schooling model, Zambia will soon begin to pilot the use of the resources to support 3,000 out-of-... more
Recognising the importance of partnerships in meeting the need for a dramatic expansion in access to all levels of schooling, COL actively engages with ministries and other stakeholder to build... more
COL Senior Adviser: Open Schooling, Dr Johannes Hendrikz, visited the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport in Belize to discuss the progress of the first phase of the Open/Innovative School Model... more
COL supports countries with the development of ODL, open schooling, OER, and gender and open schooling policy development. Support is also available for open school implementation and management... more
Fraser Valley Distance Education School (FVDES), in Chilliwack, BC and Gwen Lizarraga High School (GLHS) in Belize City have been “twinned” to provide opportunities for staff in both countries... more
While most Open Schools have introduced Quality Assurance practices based on the COL QA toolkit, the absence of a QA policy can constrain efforts to reach a common understanding of quality concepts... more
Papua New Guinea’s Flexible Open and Distance Education (FODE) unit in the Department of Education approached COL for assistance in setting a strategy for the use of technology in distance learning.... more
