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Teaching the future: A robotics course for Caribbean educators

Robotics can help learners build the problem-solving, technical, and creative skills needed…

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A generation rising: Caribbean youth build a resilient future through robotics solutions across borders and blue waters

By Dr Schontal Moore, Adviser: VUSSC, COL “I hope to learn a…

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Investing in Pacific skills

By Professor Peter Scott, President and CEO, COL  A ten-year strategy for flexible…

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VUSSC Voices webinar #12: Towards a climate-smart future

VUSSC Voices, a webinar series highlighting expert voices from COL’s Virtual University…

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Across borders and blue waters, Caribbean youth are coming together to turn shared challenges into practical ideas.

Through COL’s Youth Robotics for Blue-Green Resilience and Prosperity Project, young people from across the region are working in teams to explore challenges such as climate resilience, food security, water quality, agriculture and disaster preparedness, and develop robotics-enabled solutions to help address them. Alongside the robotics teams, a dedicated youth cohort is contributing as researchers, communicators and advocates.

Read how Caribbean youth are learning to design, build, test and speak for their futures: www.col.org/news/a-generation-rising-caribbean-youth-build-a-resilient-future-through-robotics-so...

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When women and girls have access to knowledge, skills and opportunities, they are better positioned to strengthen their livelihoods, build economic independence and shape their own futures.

Through COL’s Empowering Women & Girls project, partners like Bedari are helping turn skills development into meaningful opportunities for women and girls. Watch "On Her Feet" to hear some of those stories from Pakistan.

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At UNESCO's Digital Learning Week in Paris last week, COL Vice President Anne-Marie Scott joined the UNITWIN Network on Open Education, which brings together UNESCO Chairs of Open Education, for a meeting ahead of the formal programme.

Alongside representatives from UNESCO, the International Council for Open and Distance Education, Open Education Global and the Global Open Educational Resources Graduate Network, participants shared updates on open education activities and priorities, explored opportunities for greater collaboration and exchanged perspectives from within and beyond the Commonwealth.

Discussions highlighted the importance of developing the next generation of open education leadership, strengthening the intersection between open education and skills development, and continuing global collaboration to advance accessible and inclusive learning.

COL is grateful to the UNITWIN Network on Open Education for bringing this valuable community together and creating space to strengthen partnerships around open education.

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We were delighted to welcome the new British Consul General in Vancouver, Danial Shaikh, to the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) headquarters.

During his meeting with COL President and CEO, Professor Peter Scott, they discussed how COL is expanding access to education and

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Research on women’s access to STEM education points to progress. But are those gains translating into equal opportunities to build careers and lead?

COL’s Women in STEM initiative (WiSE) is examining the gaps behind this question, bringing together researchers, policymakers and civil society to develop solutions that expand opportunities for women across STEM education, employment and leadership.

At a recent workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, stakeholders from Brunei, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, The Gambia and Uganda discussed barriers, shared lessons on more inclusive policy and practice, and identified practical actions to help more women participate, progress and lead in STEM.

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Rwanda’s higher education and teacher training institutions are taking important steps towards the responsible and effective use of artificial intelligence (AI). Through a collaboration between the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the Higher Education Council (HEC) and the University of Rwanda (UR), representatives from nine higher education and teacher training institutions have come together in Kigali, Rwanda, for a three-day session to develop and strengthen institutional AI policies and guidelines.

The initiative aims to establish a coherent, future-ready framework that enables institutions to harness AI to improve the quality of education, foster innovation and promote ethical practices. The policies are being developed in alignment with national guidance from HEC as well as regional frameworks from the Inter-University Council for East Africa.

Opening the event, Dr Olivier Habimana, Head of the Department of Digitalisation and Research at HEC, highlighted the importance of clear AI policies and other institutional measures to support the effective integration of AI in education. In his welcoming remarks, Professor Florien Nsanganwimana, Principal of the College of Education at the University of Rwanda, emphasised the critical role of teachers in preparing learners for an AI-enabled future, noting the importance of AI literacy and ethics in supporting students.

This activity forms part of COL’s broader work in AI for Teacher Education work across Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. It reflects our commitment to promoting shared learning, locally relevant and collaborative solutions, open educational resources, and the responsible and sustainable integration of AI across education systems.

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“Our task is not simply to put AI tools in teachers’ hands, but to strengthen their agency to decide when, why and how AI can improve teaching and learning,” says Dr Betty Ogange, Education Specialist: Teacher Education at the Commonwealth of Learning.

As AI becomes an increasingly integral part of education, responsible integration must begin with teacher education and professional development. This means embedding AI literacy, ethics, critical thinking and inclusive practices into teacher education policies, curricula and assessment.

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