This Earth Day, COL’s Empowering Women and Girls (EWG) project, generously supported by Global Affairs Canada, sheds light on the importance of equipping women and girls with green skills.
In collaboration with community partners, EWG delivers training, mentorship, and hands-on skills training that empowers women and girls to lead in climate action and pursue more sustainable livelihoods.
Learn more: commonwealthoflearning.info/48k5ONP
#EarthDay #ClimateAction #GreenSkills #Sustainability #WomenAndGirls COL4D's Empowering Women & Girls Canada’s International Development – Global Affairs CanadaThis Earth Day, we are reflecting on how to build green skills for women and girls.
Through the Empowering Women and Girls project, we work alongside local partners to deliver training, mentorship, and hands-on opportunities that build green skills and open pathways to sustainable livelihoods. Together, we’re creating inclusive spaces where women and girls can lead in climate action.
🌱 Read about four actions we are taking to build green skills: empoweringwomenandgirls.col.org/building-green-skills-for-women-and-girls/
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On any given morning, millions of learners across the Commonwealth travel to classrooms by bus, car, or foot, often facing barriers of cost, distance, and time. As climate change intensifies, these challenges are only likely to grow, with increased floods, fires, and other natural disasters making access to education even more difficult.
This Earth Day, Dr Jako Olivier, Adviser: Higher Education, COL, explores how Open and Distance Learning (ODL) can expand access to education and leave a lighter footprint on the planet. He highlights how COL’s ODL efforts support climate action and considers how education systems can become more resilient, equitable, and responsive to a changing climate.
Read more: www.col.org/news/greening-education-systems-the-role-of-open-and-distance-learning-in-advancing-c...
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In Johannesburg, South Africa, a regional workshop to advance Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for schools of education across the Southern Africa region is currently underway.
Supported by COL and co-hosted by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the University of the Witwatersrand, and the African Deans of Education Forum (ADEF), the workshop has brought together about 60 representatives from schools of education and other tertiary institutions in Botswana, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zambia to strengthen regional collaboration in teacher education.
Led by Dr Betty Ogange, Education Specialist: Teacher Education, COL, key outcomes of the workshop include supporting institutions in applying COL’s Framework for OER in Teacher Education, strengthening capacity to find, adapt, co-create, and openly license resources, and exploring sustainable approaches to policy development, quality assurance and regional collaboration.
The event forms part of the growing NOTES initiative — the Network for Open Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is building an African-led platform for collaboration, shared learning, and coordinated action to strengthen teacher education through OER, AI, and sustainable regional systems.
#OER #AIinEducation #TeacherEducation #OpenLearning #Africa Wits - University of the Witwatersrand
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