Building Resilience

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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new course: quality assurance for open distance and flexible learning

Building Resilience, COVID-19 Response

The short online course ‘Quality Assurance for Open Distance and Flexible Learning’ will be offered from February 22 to March 22, 2023. This is a free course designed for teachers in the Pacific countries to help developing sound quality assurance mechanisms for online and distance teaching environments.  It requires up to 5-6 hours of time

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Workshop II on policy and planning for open and distance learning with the ministry officials

Building Resilience

In continuation of the workshops with the ministry officials in May and June 2022, the second part of the workshop on policy and planning for open and distance learning began on October 12, 2022. The purpose of the workshop was to consolidate what had been discussed in the first round of workshops, get participants to

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

Building Resilience, Uncategorized

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

Building Resilience, Uncategorized

[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

Building Resilience, Uncategorized

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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