Building Resilience

A Special Parallel Session @ PCF10: Strategies and Solutions for ODFL in the Pacific

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On September 15, 2022, a special parallel session convened over 40 key policymakers, educators and practitioners from the Pacific to review the progress of open, distance, and flexible learning (ODFL) in the Pacific, share lessons learned and discuss a way forward. This was also an opportunity to share information on the ‘Partnership for ODFL in …

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Online Workshop on Policy and Planning for Open Distance and Flexible Learning

Building Resilience

COL organised online workshops for officials in ministries of education in the smaller island countries of the Pacific on policy and planning for open distance and flexible learning (ODFL). There were three sessions in the workshops which were held in June – July 2022. Over 20 ministry officials from Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, …

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Tonga volcanic eruption and tsunami: glimpses of news from international sources

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[Image by Planet Labs, Inc. via Wikimedia Commons under under CC BY SA 4.0] First aid flights arrive in Tonga after big volcano eruption | Washington Post 80 per cent of Tonga population impacted by eruption and tsunami | | UN News Tonga’s volcano blast cut it off from the world. Here’s what it will …

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Request for Proposal(RFP): Online ODL Course Catalogue

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We are pleased to announce that after series of regional consultation workshop on Online Open Distance Learning (ODL) Course Catalogue over the last two months, a Request for Proposal (RfP) has been published to seek a contractor who could upgrade/re-develop a catalogue available to teachers in the Pacific. A prototype was developed as an example …

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Building Education Resilience in the Pacific with New Zealand’s Support

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

With funding from New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has launched the implementation of the “Partnership for Open, Distance and Flexible Learning in the Pacific” Together with the Pacific Centre for Flexible and Open Learning for Development (PACFOLD), the five-year initiative aims to contribute to enhancing the capacity and …

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