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Tekelea Centre Transforms Youth Through Skills and Leadership
The Tekelea Training Centre, with COL and MFAT New Zealand’s support, trained 54 youth in poultry farming, motor skills, leadership, and entrepreneurship. Using the “Tok

Samoana Animations: Preserving Samoan Storytelling in the Digital Age
“Every story begins with a mother’s love.” The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is pleased to support the Samoana Animations project, a cultural resilience initiative in

Women and youth gain digital literacy and leadership skills in Tonga
Tonga Women in ICT, in collaboration with COL and supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade New Zealand, has been actively working to

Empowering Vanuatu’s Youth: V-Lab and COL Partnership Success
Through the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade New Zealand, COL recently collaborated with V-Lab – Vanuatu’s first business, idea, and organization
EVENTS
Online Webinar on Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Pacific
Teachers can continue their learning for free anywhere at any time!
Great news for teachers in the Pacific! All our online courses remain OPEN so you can study at your own pace at any time!
We recommend starting from an introductory course ‘Using Open Educational Resources for Online Learning‘.
Please visit the ODL Course Catalogue to see all other available courses: https://www.odlcatalogue4pacific.org

Workstreams
Immediate response to COVID-19
Increasing access to Open Educational Resources (OER) to support distance learning and supporting professional development for teachers in distance learning
Supporting youth employment
Supporting professional development of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) / Education providers and providing skills and leadership training for youth, young women and PWD
Building resilience in Pacific education systems
Building technical resilience in the Pacific with cloud-based computing / Building teachers and officials capacity in online distance and flexible learning / Supporting the development and management of regional tools
Building education lessons and insights
Independent evaluation, action research, and guidance notes and advisory documents to ensure achieving the high-level outcomes
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