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Pre-COW: Commonwealth of Learning 2024
(2024-09-03) Scott, Peter
Presented by Professor Peter Scott, President & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning, at the Pre-Committee of the Whole (Pre-COW) meeting, London, United Kingdom, 4 September 2024.
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Micro-Credentials as Catalysts for Supporting Strategic Development Goals in Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean, 2024
(2024-08) McGreal, Rory; Commonwealth of Learning (COL); the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) spearheaded an initiative to explore the integration of micro-credentials (MCs) in the Caribbean region’s educational infrastructure. The initiative comprises five phases – research, analysis, policy support, regulation capacity building, and education system integration – to enable the education ecosystem in the region to introduce and standardise the adoption of MCs in the secondary and post-secondary levels. This report covers Phase 1 of the project, the scoping study, which explores the adoption and potential impact of MCs across several Commonwealth Caribbean countries, with a focus on their application in democratising education and enhancing regional development. MCs offer a promising avenue for supporting educational goals in the Commonwealth Caribbean by providing flexible, targeted learning opportunities aligned with specific skills and contemporary needs. Effective implementation will require collaborative efforts to overcome existing barriers and fully harness the potential of MCs to transform the Caribbean region’s educational landscape.
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Podcast Series: The Path to Female Leadership
(2022-05) Wallace, Ann; Ige, Motun; Longsworth, Luz; McCutcheon, Judy; Gibson, Diane; Tross, Samantha; Kité, Elizabeth; Mensah-Williams, Margaret; Kanwar, Asha; Abulokwe, Nneka; Naido, Rajani
CommonwealthWiseWomen (CWW) was a COL mentorship programme (2021-2023) that linked eminent female professionals with women and girls in underserved communities for developing leadership skills. This ten-episode podcast series offered under this programme is hosted by Dr Ann Wallace, Higher Education Management & eLearning Specialist, who speaks with prominent females from each region of the Commonwealth to discuss “the road to female leadership”; conversations about the path to leadership and development as a female in the education, business, government, non-government, entrepreneurship, and health sectors.
- Episode 1: Female Role Models and Home Training – Leadership Prep?
- Episode 2: Lead From Where You Are
- Episode 3: Born to Lead
- Episode 4: Leading with Heart
- Episode 5: Where There’s No Trail – Blaze On
- Episode 6: The Rights to Lead
- Episode 7: I’m A Woman – Watch Me Lead
- Episode 8: You’re a Leader When Those You Lead Benefit from Your Actions
- Episode 9: Condition Your Mind for Leadership
- Episode 10: Leading with Humility and Truth
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Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT)
(2012) Adeyanju , Thomas K; Maisamari , Musa; Ndege, Speranza M; Sanyal, Mukti; Muganda, Cornelia; Olaofe, Isaac; Boruah, Padmini
Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT) is intended to support the classroom activities of teachers of junior secondary schools (JSS). The aims of ORELT are to: Provide a bank of ‘open content’ multi-media resources in on-line and traditional text formats that will support school-based education and training for teachers in junior secondary schools; Provide ‘open content’ support resources for teacher educators who prepare teachers for junior secondary schools. To achieve these aims a Situation analysis of English language teaching (ELT) in selected Commonwealth nations was undertaken to determine strengths, gaps and challenges of teaching English in Africa and Asia. This formed the basis for developing appropriate materials that address the needs and realities of JSS teachers.
The six modules are:
- Module 1: Better Listening
- Module 2: Speaking for Better Communication
- Module 3: Success in Reading
- Module 4: Effective Writing
- Module 5: Language through Literature
- Module 6: Communicative Grammar
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Programme Achievement 2023-24
(2024-06) Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
The Commonwealth of Learning Programme Achievement Report for 2023-2024 as presented to the Board of Governors.