COL's Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning takes place in London from 13 - 17 July 2008. Visit the University of London's PCF5 website for online registration, abstracts and the latest information.

FEBRUARY 2008 : Virtual University courses available online | Learning4Content helps educators develop OERs | Advancing gender equality | Governance initiatives | FAIR COMMENT: Non-commercial licenses | FOCUS: ICT and education in Africa | EDTECH

On behalf of Commonwealth Ministers of Education, COL is coordinating the development of a Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC). Thirty countries are now actively engaged in making the VUSSC a reality.

Our daily bulletin on open and distance learning. It is an RSS feed that uses "Yahoo Pipes" and "Google News" which aggregate and filter content from reliable web sources selected by COL.

A wide range of studies, reports and research documents have been published by COL. Most are available for download, free-of-charge, on this web site.

We're turning the digital divide into digital dividends using free content and open networks. We hope you can help us.