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    The Bridgehead: The Commonwealth of Learning into the 2st Century
    (2000) Commonwealth of Learning
    Commonwealth of Learning video, 2000. In two parts. Part 1 duration: 5:53. Part 2 duration: 6:35.
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    The Seed...A Belief
    (2004) Commonwealth of Learning
    Commonwealth of Learning video, 2004. In two parts. Part 1 duration: 7:16. Part 2 duration:5:13.
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    The Civil Paths to Peace: Prof. Asha Kanwar in Conversation with Prof. Amartya Sen
    (2008) Kanwar, Asha; Sen, Amartya
    Professor Asha Kanwar interviews Nobel Laureate, Professor Amartya Sen. (Plays on Window Media Player - need to be using Internet Explorer to view)
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    Education for Digital World - Global Efforts
    (2008) Kanwar, Asha; Panda, Santosh
    With Prof. Asha S. Kanwar, Vice President & Programme Director Commonwealth of Learning, Canada. Interviewer - Prof. S. Panda. Duration: 22:34.
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    Introduction to COL
    (2009) Daniel, John
    The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. Through its own resources and its extensive networks, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) provides a wealth of services and collaborative opportunities for policy makers, institutions and distance education practitioners to encourage the development of, and help enhance, the use of open and distance learning (ODL) policies, systems and applications. COL's mission focuses on helping Commonwealth member states to use technology as a means of increasing the scope, scale, quality and impact of their education and training systems. The application of technology through ODL techniques has shown its power and value in many countries and for many purposes.
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    Ten Years of the Commonwealth of Learning: A Celebration of Achievement
    (2009) Commonwealth of Learning
    Commonwealth of Learning 10th Anniversary video, 1999. Duration: 7:54.
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    Overview of COL's Programmes
    (2009) Kanwar, Asha
    COL's Three-year Plan for 2009-2012 is entitled Learning for Development, continuing with the theme of the previous triennium. The broad term “learning” – which subsumes formal education and training – not only captures the variety of demands that development makes on people but also evokes the vision implicit in COL’s name: Learning is our Common Wealth. Learning for Development expresses a vision that reaches beyond formal education to embrace areas of learning that are vital for better livelihoods, greater prosperity and a safer environment. Understanding development as the process of increasing the freedoms that people can enjoy, COL pursues this vision operationally within the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the campaign for Education for All (EFA) and Commonwealth values. (Duration: 05:22)
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    Sir John Daniel - Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers
    (2010) Daniel, John
    Sir John Daniel, President & CEO of COL, describes the contents of his new book, Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers: Achieving Education for All, in this three-minute video. Duration:3:20.
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    COL's Virtual University of Small States of the Commonwealth
    (2010) Lesperance, John
    The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) is a network initiated by and built on the support of Ministers of Education of developing small states of the Commonwealth. It is committed to the collaborative development of open content resources for education, training and capacity building, and the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to broaden access to education.
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    Community Radios, India
    (2010) Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
    Radio in education India
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    Science for Women's Health and Nutrition
    (2010) Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
    This video presentation covers Science for Women's Health and Nutrition programme conducted by CEMCA. Duration: 14:23.
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    COL's Healthy Communities Initiative
    (2010) Pringle, Ian
    COL aims to increase access to appropriate learning materials and programming by citizens, community groups and healthcare workers, enabling better community responses to maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS and other health and development challenges, particularly in remote and resource-poor areas of the Commonwealth. COL’s focus is determined by community needs and national priorities in different regions of the Commonwealth including: • Maternal and child health • HIV/AIDS: awareness, treatment literacy • Malaria, TB, diabetes and other major illnesses • Life skills: parenting, conflict resolution, understanding gender • Healthy lifestyles: nutrition, moderation and fitness • Healthy environments: waste management, sanitation
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    COL's eLearning Initiative
    (2010) van Wyk, Trudi
    COL helps countries and institutions to understand eLearning and implement it using technologies that are practical, user-friendly and compatible with available and existing equipment. COL's eLearning Initiative: • Builds capacity among educators to develop eLearning materials on the platforms of their choice; • Expands training in eTutoring; • Facilitates the creation of high-quality learning materials made available as open educational resources; • Replicates the Learning for Content model, a low-cost online training option, to train large numbers of individuals; • Develops low-cost technology options for the developing Commonwealth; and • Builds communities of practice and facilitate collaborative content development and sharing
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    COL's Higher Education Initiative
    (2010) Clarke-Okah, Willie
    Faced with burgeoning demand for higher education, various African countries are planning to establish open universities and are seeking COL’s help. Although ODL is now deployed by many conventional institutions, the staff members involved often lament their lack of qualifications for teaching within this new approach. COL assists with: • Policy generation with the national governments; • Training of trainers for all aspects of ODL; • Capacity development at various levels of university systems, particularly in the area of quality assurance; • Development of materials, models and guides on key areas of ODL; • Establishment of Commonwealth-wide partnerships to work on critical issues; • Continued support for institutions offering the COL Commonwealth Executive MBA/MPA Programmes and Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in Legislative Drafting.
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    COL's Open Schooling Initiative
    (2010) Ferreira, Frances
    COL is helping to increase access to quality education while increasing student achievement by providing teachers in developing countries with new technologies, tools and skills. COL's Open Schooling initiatives include: • Advocacy. COL works with partners in government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and education institutions to promote Open Schooling. • Development of Open Schools. COL has helped develop policies and proposals for the establishment of open schools in Cameroon, Nigeria, Pakistan and Trinidad & Tobago. • Capacity building. COL works with partners to train educators, administrators and policymakers in the development and operation of open schools. Workshops have focused on materials development, instructional design, radio broadcasting, learner support, eLearning, management of open schools, strategic planning for open schools and quality assurance. • Fostering Collaboration. Funded by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, COL is working with educators in six countries - Botswana, India, Lesotho, Namibia, Seychelles and Trinidad & Tobago - to develop and share open educational resources (OERs) for secondary education, the professional development of teachers in the effective use of technology in classrooms and creating learner support material for teachers. • Publications. COL has published a number of handbooks and guides to support open schools • Learning materials. COL has assisted with the development of quality learning materials for open schools. • Research. "Open Schooling for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education" explores the provision of secondary level Open Schooling in India and Namibia. COL has also commissioned research into the use of mobile technologies in Africa. • Quality assurance. COL provides training in quality assurance and is developing a QA Toolkit for open schools.
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    COL's Teacher Education Initiative
    (2010) Umar, Abdurrahman
    Video Message: Through its Teacher Education initiative, COL: • Advocates the use of ODL in teacher education by supporting policies for professional development; • Works with selected teacher education institutions over the Three-Year Plan period to ensure the design and delivery of quality teacher education programmes; • Emphasises the development of pedagogic content knowledge and skills among ODL practitioners; • Supports conventional teacher education institutions to make the transition to dual-mode; • Facilitates the development and use of open educational resources; and • Develops the capacity of teachers to implement the concept of Child Friendly Schools.
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    Non-formal Education: Are We There Yet?
    (2011) Latchem, Colin; Kanwar, Asha
    A Planners’ and Practitioners’ QA Toolkit for Open and Distance Non-formal Education with author Colin Latchem.
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    COL's Lifelong Learning for Farmers Initiative
    (2011) Balasubramanian, K
    COL's Lifelong Learning for Farmers model promotes prosperity by blending social capital and banking services with the innovative use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This model can enable many thousands of poor farmers, men and women, to learn and earn. COL's programme: • Adopts/adapts the L3F model in different jurisdictions train a cadre of “knowledge info-mediaries” to scale up the L3F model; • Works upstream by helping agricultural universities use ODL to design better education and training programmes; • Helps research organisations to apply science to the challenges of rural development and to provide services to resource-poor communities; • Consolidates and scale up pilot grassroots activities through policy advocacy and capacity-building; and • Works with a global network of strategic partners to promote L3F and extend the use of knowledge info-mediaries.
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    Commonwealth of Learning Resource CD-ROM Introduction
    (2011-09) Daniel, John
    Sir John Daniel introducing COL's Resource CD-ROM (September 2011). Duration: 7:51
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    Ian Pringle In Cameroon
    (2011-09) Pringle, Ian
    Ian Pringle, COL's Media Education Specialist, visited Cameroon from the 3rd - 10th September, 2011 during which he held meetings with stakeholders of the Commonwealth of Learning Programme to expand Open Distance Learning initiatives in Yaounde, Lebialem, Dschang and Douala. Before leaving for Cape Town, where he facilitated a COL Healthy Communities Partners' Workshop, Ian Pringle briefed the Cameroon press on his trip and what he found during his visits and meetings. In Yaounde, he met with the national focal point of the Commonwealth of Learning in Cameroon, Prof. Ivo Tambo Leke, the Secretary General at the ministry of public health, Prof. Angwafo III, members of the Association of Media Health Journalists and officials promoting Open Distance Learning at the University of Dschang. In this video, Ian Pringle shares his views on what the Commonwealth of Learning is all. The excerpt of his press conference was filmed for sharing.