“Digital Opportunities for All: Preparing Students for 21st-Century Skills” is the theme of the 2008 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education. Funded by the Kingdom of Bahrain, the US$50,000 prize is divided between two winners. The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2008.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning and teaching materials that are offered freely to anyone under licenses that allow to use, modify and distribute the items. But that's not all. Through the world-wide movement of OER, magnified with user-generated content and underlying Web 2.0 technologies, the advantages and opportunities are numerous for teachers, authors, eLearning practitioners, developers and content providers, researchers and decision-makers, and last but not least: the learne more...

The UNESCO OER Community received the 2008 MANeLA Leadership Award. It was presented at eLearning Africa last week by Moustapha Diack, Director of MERLOT Africa Network (MAN), and Gerry Hanley, Executive Director of MERLOT.

The Leadership Award recognizes the Community’s “significant contribution to the global understanding of the issues and innovations surrounding OER and the OER movement”.

The Merlot Africa Network (MAN) established a “MAN-eLearning Africa exemplary practice Awa more...

The United Nations University (UNU) is the ninth UN agency to join the Open Training Platform (OTP). This UNESCO-powered hub offers free training resources on 21 development topics, fostering cooperation to provide free and open content for development.

At present, OTP regroups partners from all UN agencies (FAO, ILO/ITC, ITU, UNESCO, UNITAR, UNU, UNV, WHO and UNEP), worldwide development practitioners, as well as regional and local NGOs and CBOs.

This one year old web portal keeps on grow more...

In 2007, OECD released a 153 page report called Giving Knowledge for free (link to the report at http://www.oecd.org/document/41/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_38659497_1_1_1_1,00.html)

Now OECD is asking for help in gathering data from producers and users of open educational resources.

OECD would like to invite anyone working in a higher educational institution that uses or produces open learning content, such as courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections and journals, more...

The 1st Adriatic-Ionian Intercultural Dialogue Conference aims at producing and signing a policy document entitled: “The Corfu Intercultural Dialogue Declaration”. This document will reflect the concerns of the conference participants regarding intercultural dialogue in the periphery of Europe and peripheral and will attempt to devise patterns for future action in the region.

With a view to shape and enrich its content, the Programme Committee invites researchers, policy makers, universi more...

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OBJECTIVE

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This global web based course is supposed to be an open and participatory learning experience that involves practical ‘hands-on’ sessions where your learning activities and the things you create will become a part of the course.

It is geared at students, teachers and free learner outside of formal education who would like to become knowledgeable ne(x)t generation learners able to update their skills and knowledge self-dependently within a lifelong learning context.

The course is free: more...

United Nations University launches the UNU OpenCourseWare Portal, which offers open access to about a dozen courses developed by three of UNU's Research and Training Centres and Programmes (RTC/Ps) and the Tokyo-based UNU Media Studio.

The intent of the UNU OpenCourseWare Portal is to make the course materials used by UNU RTC/Ps available on the web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. The initiative is not meant to replace degree-granting higher education or for-credit courses more...

Rural Educational Empowerment Development Scheme (REEDS)
Motto: Eradication of illiteracy in the rural areas
Email: reeds42@yahoo.com

INTRODUCTION

Nigeria came into existence as a nation- state in the 1914 through the amalgamation of the southern and Northern protectorates hitherto with separate ethnic, cultural, and linguistic groups.
Presently, Nigeria is made up of 36 states and a federal capital Territory (FCT) which are grouped to six geopolitical regions: North Central, North East more...