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Climate Change and Climate Action
No full textThis course explains climate change and its impact on human lives from a local context, including local trends in severe weather and the impact of climate change on livelihoods. It has a particular focus on agriculture, water and food security. The activities and readings will help you to anticipate the impact of climate change in your own context, examine policies that are relevant to your location and develop a relevant advocacy strategy. You will learn to identify key strategies for climate action such as mobilisation and community-based conservation, identify critical conservation issues in a local context and align various climate actions and policies to support conservation efforts
Togo 2021-24: Country Report
No full textThe report provides an overview of key COL activities and programmes in 2021-2024
Saint Lucia 2021-24: Country Report
No full textThe report provides an overview of key COL activities and programmes in 2021-2024
Exploring Influences on ICT Adoption in German Schools: A UTAUT-Based Structural Equation Model
No full textThe 2018 International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) provides a comprehensive dataset with contextual information on German school environments. The data comes from responses by eighth-grade teachers and principals to a questionnaire about Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for teaching. We performed an exploratory re-analysis examining what influences teachers' adoption and use of ICT by employing six factors — Social Influence, Effort Expectancy, Performance Expectancy, Facilitating Conditions, Behavioural Intention, and Use Behaviour — from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). We measured relationships between these constructs with a Structural Equation Model (SEM) consisting of 15 indicators provided by the ICILS study. The goodness of fit measures indicated confirmation of the model (RMSEA = .05, SRMR = .05, CFI = .93, TLI = .91). Our findings show that teachers' attitudes toward ICT and the school administration's support affected how ICT was applied in the classroom
Bangladesh 2021-24: Country Report
No full textThe report provides an overview of key COL activities and programmes in 2021-2024
Using Innovations and Climate-Responsive Actions to Build Community Resilience
No full textThis course is intended for field workers and practitioners who are working with rural communities that are affected by climate change events and are looking to innovation as the key climate-responsive action to address community resilience. The course will explore alternative sustainable livelihoods to better manage natural resources as a result of innovation in climate resilience. Existing innovations can be tailored to suit local situations. Successful implementation of the innovation depends on institutional support, access to markets, skills and capacity enhancement and the availability of local/traditional knowledge. The concept of total biomass use will help the learner to understand best practices in natural resource management and conservation at a local level. The course will identify types of institutional support, networks and skills required to implement total biomass use and explore a climate-responsive livelihood through the innovation model that is adapted
Benchmarking of Technology-Enabled Learning at University of Kabianga
No full textThis report presents the findings of the TEL benchmarking carried out at University of Kabianga, Kenya during September -November 2024. It provides an overview of the methodology, the validated self-study report and an action plan developed by the University of Kabianga team
President's Message for Commonwealth Day 2024
No full textVideo message from Professor Peter Scott, COL President & CEO for Commonwealth Day 2024, 11 March 2024
TNAU Graduation Day Address
No full textGraduation Day Address by Dr Venkataraman Balaji, Vice President, Commonwealth of Learning, at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), School of ODL, Coimbatore, India, on 13 February 2024
Online Skills in an Offline Environment: Creating Information Literacy Tutorials for the SolarSPELL Offline Digital Library
No full textDigital and information literacy skills are necessary to succeed in today’s knowledge economy but for the millions of people in the world without internet access, a frustrating Catch-22 exists: How can they develop digital literacy skills without internet access? When they get access, what good is the internet to them if they don’t have the skills to use it productively? One answer is an offline digital library called SolarSPELL. This report from the field describes a series of instructional videos the author created to foster digital and information literacy skills among novice SolarSPELL users