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Services

COL can help with:

  • Development of educational policies
  • National and regional fora
  • Teacher training programmes
  • Literacy and livelihood/skills training
  • Rural development, agricultural education and environmental management
  • Programmes for orphaned and vulnerable children
  • Quality assurance and institutional capacity-building
  • Training of distance educators
  • Educational technology applications
  • Non-formal and health education
  • Facilitating multi-provider delivery consortia
  • E-learning

COL offers (SERVICES):

  • Internship and attachment programmes
  • Start-up guides and training manuals
  • Knowledge resources and publications
  • Web and Internet services
  • Commonwealth-wide materials licensing
  • Course delivery and design for international organisations (fee-for-service)

Examples:

  • Regional ODL centres (Nigeria and Botswana, clearing house for regional experience and available expertise)
  • Southern Africa teacher training programme (STAMP 2000+)
  • Commonwealth Executive MBA/MPA programme
  • Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia
  • Information Resource Centre
  • COL Knowledge Finder (Internet search tool)
  • Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning
  • Regional institutes (African vice-chancellors, heads of teacher training agencies)
  • Support for distance education professional associations
  • Commonwealth of Learning Media Empowerment programme (COLME)
  • Community radio and video
  • Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (under development)
  • Poverty Reduction Outcomes Through Education Innovations and Networks programme (COLPROTEIN, supporting innovative uses of ODL to address poverty alleviation in rural areas)

   

Shared expertise, resources, materials | global networks | knowledge management | low-cost, innovative technologies | cost-effective programming | consultation and advice | advocacy | course delivery and design | fee-for-service project management | Functional outreach | Teacher training | non-formal education | literacy and values education | technical/vocational education and training | basic education/open schooling | higher education | continuing professional education | Fee-for-service consulting and professional services


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