Building Resilience

Samoana Animations: Preserving Samoan Storytelling in the Digital Age

Building Resilience, Lessons & Insights

“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 Samoa. Developed in partnership with Pacific Kids Learning (PKL), this is designed to digitise traditional village stories while preserving the rich oral storytelling traditions that connect Samoan mothers and daughters […]

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Empowering Visually Impaired Learners in Solomon Islands: Graduation Marks a Milestone in Inclusive Education

Building Resilience, Lessons & Insights, Youth Employment

In a significant step towards fostering inclusivity and independence, thirty blind and visually impaired individuals graduated earlier this month from the “Taep fo Laef” and literacy programmes in Honiara, Solomon Islands. The training programmes, led by the Blind and Vision Impaired Persons Support Initiative (BVIPSI) with support from COL, focused on equipping visually impaired persons with essential

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Digitalisation and Future Learning

Building Resilience, COVID-19 Response, Lessons & Insights, Uncategorized, Youth Employment

You are invited to join the @COL4D “Digitalisation and Future Learning” webinar on 25 September 2024, from 1700 to 1830 hrs Pacific Standard Time (PST North America) and 1100 hrs in Suva, Fiji, on Thursday the 26 September 2024. This interactive session will feature a distinguished panel, including serving Education Ministers and senior officials from

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New Course: Mainstreaming Open, Distance and Flexible Learning (MODFL) for Pacific Countries

Building Resilience, COVID-19 Response

The online course ‘Mainstreaming Open, Distance and Flexible Learning (MODFL) for Pacific Countries’ will be offered from 26 June to 17 July 2024. This is a hands-on, activity-based course in which participants will complete four (4) learning challenges/units that would prepare them to better implement ODFL in their contexts:* Why mainstream ODL?* Understanding ODL* A

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STEM teachers’ workshop in Solomon Islands

Building Resilience, Lessons & Insights

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the Pacific Centre for Flexible and Open Learning for Development (PACFOLD) organized a workshop focused on addressing the urgent need to prepare students for a future driven by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), in partnership with the University of the South Pacific (USP) campus in the Solomon Islands.

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Workshop on ODFL in teacher training, in partnership with the Fiji Teachers Registration Authority

Building Resilience, Lessons & Insights

COL and PACFOLD, in partnership with the Fiji Teachers Registration Authority, organized a workshop to train 30 officials in integrating ODFL in teacher training. The workshop was held on April 15, 2024, and a diverse group of 30 stakeholders – including educators, policymakers, and representatives from teacher training institutions in Fiji – attended the workshop.

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Micro-credentials Regional Workshop in Suva, Fiji

Building Resilience, COVID-19 Response

The University of the South Pacific’s Centre for Flexible Learning has teamed up with the Commonwealth of Learning #COL4D to host a three-day workshop on micro-credentials. This important event is made possible with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade #MFAT, New Zealand, represented by Ms Vena-Liz Upton. The March 2024 regional

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Series of trainings conducted by Tonga Women in ICT

Building Resilience, Youth Employment

In partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Tonga Women in ICT has been actively engaged in advancing women’s empowerment through technology. In March and April, 2024, Tonga Women in ICT conducted a series of trainings for 322 participants in Entrepreneurship, Digital Literacy Skills and Building a Small Database in Tonga. Throughout this period, our

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Enhancing STEM teaching: Integrating OER and technology for effective learning

Building Resilience, Lessons & Insights, Uncategorized

On January 25-26, 2024, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts, Fiji, and the Centre for Flexible Learning, the University of the South Pacific organised a workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) and technology for STEM, where 21 staff from the Curriculum development unit at the ministry attended. This was an introductory

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