06. Speeches & Presentations

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    Education for Sustainable Development: Reaching the Masses
    ( 2007-11-26) Daniel, John ; Alluri, Krishna ; Menon, Mohan
    Fourth International Conference on Environmental Education, Environmental Education towards a Sustainable Future: Partners for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Ahmedabad, India, 26 November 2007, Education for Sustainable Development: Reaching the Masses, John Daniel, Krishna Alluri and Mohan Menon Commonwealth of Learning // In order to succeed education for sustainable development must reach the masses. This means three things. First, we must focus on those who can multiply the message, especially teachers, working not just in the classroom but through open schooling systems. Second, we must cultivate lifelong environmental learning, including that related to climate change and water resources management. Third, it follows from these two imperatives that we must use learning technologies and teaching media at scale. We describe the work of the Commonwealth of Learning in these three areas. Technology-mediated open and distance education makes it possible for the Centre for Environmental Education to teach its Green Teacher Diploma to thousands of teachers. Information technology kiosks in villages allow farmers to become lifelong learners, increasing their prosperity and lessening their environmental impact.
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    Helping Farmers Prosper: Announcing a New Model for Partnership
    ( 2006-07-14) Daniel, John ; Alluri, Krishna
    I shall first describe the work of the Commonwealth of Learning, which is a small but dynamic Commonwealth intergovernmental agency based just over the Rockies in Vancouver. We have only been working in agriculture for a few years but we think that we have hit upon a winning formula to help farmers and landless agricultural labourers (henceforward referred to as 'farmers') improve their livelihoods in India. The approach looks very positive and may have great potential for the Commonwealth. Perhaps you can help to implement it.
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    Open and Distance Learning in a Changing World: Selected speeches of Sir John Daniel and colleagues (2007-2008)
    ( 2009) Daniel, John ; Kanwar, Asha ; West, Paul ; Uvalić-Trumbić, Stamenka ; Alluri, Krishna ; Menon, Mohan
    This booklet contains an open letter to the next US president – written before the election – and six speeches delivered in different countries at various events. In giving the selection the title Open and Distance Learning in a Changing World we have tried to show how the core principles of open and distance learning (ODL) are being implemented in new ways to meet emerging development needs
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    Summary: Livelihoods
    ( 2008-07-17) Alluri, Krishna
    Transcript of a summary presentation at the Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning London, UK, 17 July 2008. Summary delivered by Krishna Alluri, Commonwealth of Learning.
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    Technology, Education and Sustainable Development
    ( 2006-02-16) Alluri, Krishna ; Menon, Mohan ; Daniel, John
    Our title is Technology, Education and Sustainable Development. Before I joined COL I spent a few years as Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO. Whilst I was there UNESCO's Education Sector was charged with laying the groundwork for the United Nations Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. It is a special pleasure to be in Ahmedabad, where the first major international meeting of the decade took place in January 2005. The Ahmedabad Declaration that emerged from that meeting has been very helpful to us in preparing this lecture.
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    Tertiary TVET: Pathways for Pioneers
    ( 2008-10-01) Daniel, John ; Alluri, Krishna ; Mallet, Joshua
    I have prepared these remarks with two of my COL colleagues, Dr. Krishna Alluri and Mr Joshua Mallet. Dr. Alluri, a distinguished expert on the nexus between education, learning and agricultural development, heads the COL programme sector that we call Learning for Livelihoods. I have just returned from visiting, in the eastern part of your country, the Lifelong Learning for Farmers programme that he initiated. This programme, which is being run in close collaboration with the Eastern University in that region and with other Sri Lankan universities in four other locations, is visibly helping to improve rural prosperity.
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    University-Community Links for Rural Prosperity
    ( 2008-11-28) Daniel, John ; Alluri, Krishna
    We argue today that universities should do more to tackle the single most important development challenge for most poor countries, which is to improve rural prosperity.