Commonwealth of Learning
For International Open Educational Resources Work
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Amount$600,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/14/2015
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organization that encourages the development and sharing of open learning and distance education knowledge, resources, and technologies. The organization will advocate for governments and educational institutions to adopt supportive OER policies, provide technical support for these countries and institutions to develop and use OER, and create new content. This work is expected to help widen the use of OER, thereby providing underserved students greater access to education that meets their needs.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.col.org
Address
4710 Kingsway, Suite 2500, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5H 4M2, Canada
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Commonwealth of Learning helps governments, institutions, and organizations expand the scale, efficiency, and quality of learning by using appropriate open, distance, and technology-based approaches. The group focuses on quality learning that leads to secure livelihoods and economic opportunities, greater harmony among all members of society as global citizens, and protection of the environment. The organization advances open education as part of its core strategic priorities, including building capacity for education systems to implement OER, supporting a field that is responsive to diverse educators and learners, and promoting equitable access to lifelong learning. (Substrategy: Field Building)
for general operating support
The Commonwealth of Learning helps governments, institutions, and organizations expand the scale, efficiency, and quality of learning by using appropriate open, distance, and technology-based approaches. The organization focuses on quality learning that leads to secure livelihoods and economic opportunities, greater harmony among all members of society as global citizens, and protection of the environment. The group advances open education as part of its core strategic priorities. In doing so, it promotes equitable access to lifelong learning and supports countries in implementing policies and practices to sustain effective use of OER.
for regional consultations on OER in preparation for the 2nd World OER Congress
The Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organization that encourages the development and use of open and distance education, including Open Educational Resources (OER). Together with UNESCO, the group will organize and host regional consultations with governments, educational institutions, and civil societies to examine the challenges of mainstreaming OER and lay the groundwork for the 2nd World OER Congress, to be held in the fall of 2017. This work supports the Education Program’s goals of encouraging governments and international institutions to strengthen policies that support OER, and creating and distributing openly licensed materials in the developing world.
