Kayla Ortlieb

Here’s an exciting opportunity if you’re looking for funding for OER activities: https://creativecommons.org/2017/06/13/community-activities-fund/

The deadline to take part in the survey mentioned below is May 17, 2017

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL), with support from the Hewlett Foundation, is currently conducting regional consultations on Open Educational Resources (OERs). Recommendations from the consultations will feed into the IInd World OER Congress taking place in Slovenia in September 2017.

As part of the consultations, COL is conducting a…[Read more]

Looking to learn more about open schooling? COL’s online repository, OAsis, has many materials on this subject. This is the weblink: http://oasis.col.org/browse?value=Open+Schooling&type=subject

“A Major goal of technical education is to eliminate any form of inequality in education, says the Minister for Education, Heritage and Arts Mahendra Reddy…”

An interesting article about the importance of quality in TVET from the Fiji Sun:
http://fijisun.com.fj/2016/08/25/tvet-experts-urged-to-focus-on-quality/

An interesting article about the SDG’s impact on women and children

“Will Agenda 2030 do any better? It won’t be easy, not least because the low-hanging fruit may have been picked during the MDG era, with the most marginalised groups harder to lift out of poverty than before.”

The article can be found here: h…[Read more]

November 25 is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Ending violence against women is related to SDG #5 (Gender Equality).

You can find out more from this article:
http://www.un.org/en/events/endviolenceday/

COL has just made available a recent baseline study on OERs in the Commonwealth called “Open Educational Resources in the Commonwealth 2016”

Here’s the link to the report: http://hdl.handle.net/11599/2441