Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning

Commonwealth of Learning COL in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Open University of Nigeria NOUN is hosting the Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning PCF7 from 2-6 December 2013 in Abuja Nigeria The conference which aims to address ‘Open Learning for Development Towards Empowerment and Transformation’ will be hosted under the themes girls and women's education skills development promoting open educational resources OER innovation and technology and institutional development Each of the themes will explore in depth a number of past and contemporary issues and challenges and how the potential of open and distance learning ODL and appropriate technology can be harnessed or are being used to address them In addition there will be under each theme analytical discussions of case studies models tools and approaches on the use of ODL to promote learning for development For more information or to register refer to www.comminit.com/africa/event/