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Open Schooling Initiatives
Name URL Description
OER 4 Open Schools www.col.org/OpenSchooling COL is undertaking a range of activities to strengthen the capacity and sustainability of open schools in developing countries. This includes creating practical handbooks, hosting capacity building workshops, commissioning research and providing access to digital resources.
National Institute of Open Schooling www.nios.ac.in NIOS provides a number of Vocational, Life Enrichment and community oriented courses besides General and Academic Courses at Secondary and Senior Secondary level. It also offers Elementary level Courses through its Open Basic Education Programmes (OBE).
Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL) www.namcol.com.na NAMCOL was created by an Act of Parliament (Act 1 0f 1997). It provides learning opportunities for adults and out of school youth.
Botswana College of Open and Distance Learning (BOCODOL) www.bocodol.ac.bw BOCODOL offers distance education courses for preparation for the Junior Certificate and BGCSE examinations. The college was established out of the Distance Education section of the Non-Formal Education Department. Part of its mission is to extend distance education course provision beyond schooling to offer vocational and other courses. The BOCODOL courses are primarily print-based with some audio support broadcast on Radio Botswana.
Telesecundaria http://telesecundaria.dgme.sep.gob.mx The Telesecundaria project (lower secondary school learning with television support) has been instrumental in changing this situation and Mexico’s communications infrastructure is now opening up to different forms of education and learning.

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