Flexible Skills Development - UNESCO
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eLearning Africa, May 2011, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
UNESCO-UNEVOC ICT in TVET summit
Commonwealth of Learning
Flexible Skills Development
Trudi van Wyk
Alison Mead Richardson
Education Specialists
COL’s Mission
To help Commonwealth governments and
institutions to expand the scope, scale and quality
of learning by using new approaches and
appropriate technologies
Strengths
20 year track record
strong leadership
partnerships with countries
COL Funding
Voluntary contributions from Ministries of Education
of member countries
Major contributors:
Canada
India
New Zealand
Nigeria
South Africa
United Kingdom
40/54
COL Programme Structure
Education
Open schooling
Teacher Education
Higher Education
VUSSC
Livelihoods & Health
Skills Development
Learning for Farmers
Healthy Communities
Integrated eLearning
COL Flexible Skills Development
Partnership with CAPA
Supporting development of skills in ICT in TVET
Change management and organisational development
Policy and strategy
Technology
Media & technology in TVET teaching
Characteristics of TVET in Africa
Full-time, face-to-face programmes
Pre-employment training for secondary achievers
Small numbers benefit
Many disadvantaged learners
ICT in TVET
Necessary for expanded access
Quality improvements
Improved efficiency and increased income
Greater ICT skills of teachers and staff
Why Flexible Skills Development?
We believe that the appropriate use of ICT can:
help institutions to be more efficient
Improve the teaching and learning experience
Make it possible to offer new courses to new learners
Increase access to TVSD
Impact positively on skills training for the informal
economy
Why the informal sector?
Sub-Saharan Africa
• 60% of population is < 25years
• 90% of work is in the informal economy
• Governments are achieving great successes in EFA
Goal 2 – UPE
• Governments need support to address EFA Goal 3
and Goal 6
Education for All Goal 3
Ensuring that the learning
needs of all young people and
adults are met through
equitable access to
appropriate learning and
life-skills programmes
Education for All Goal 6
Improving all aspects of the
quality of education and
ensuring excellence so that
recognized and measurable
learning outcomes are achieved
by all, especially in literacy,
numeracy and essential life
skills
Overall purpose of FSD
To increase access to skills
development
Informal sector and other
disadvantaged learners
To improve quality in TVSD
To contribute to poverty
alleviation
FSD activities – progress
• Introductory workshops – Zambia, Kenya & Nigeria
• Identification of 10 key institutions – Baseline
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Online Community Learning Network
Online managers & policy makers’ training
Support for management of technical infrastructure
Online training for teachers in flexible approaches
FSD Key Institutions
Online TVET managers &
teacher training courses
Educational social media platform
Build a community of practice
Resources
Discussions
Opportunity to share and provide evidence
Institutional group spaces
[email protected]
CLN – content focus
Planning and policy making
Organisational management and
change
Technical infrastructure and
resources
TVET teaching with technology
165 members
80 discussions
FSD activities to come
Online teacher training
Materials development training
National policy workshops
Course design for the informal sector workers
TVET course materials
Monitoring & evaluation
Important activity for COL and for CAPA
Needed to document the process
Formative evaluation
Baseline study
Institutions are partners in M&E
Capacity building for M&E
Aiming for:
Development of flexible approaches, programmes
and teaching which enable us to give
The COL FaB stamp of approval!
Thank you
www.col.org
[email protected]