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SUMMARY:COL’s Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF6)
DTSTART:2010-11-24
DTEND:2010-11-29
DESCRIPTION:<p>The deadline for submission of abstracts for COL’s Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF6) is 31 January 2010. PCF6 will be held from 24 to 28 November 2010 at Le Méridien Cochin Resort & Convention Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India, in partnership with India’s Indira Gandhi National Open University. </p><p>The Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning has grown to become one of the world’s leading conferences on open learning and global development. PCF6 in Kochi aims to consider what open and distance learning has done and still can do in terms of success. </p><p><strong>Theme:</strong> Access & Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives </p><strong><span>Sub-Themes:</span></strong><span><br /><em>Social Justice</em></span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Access to Justice: Life, Liberty and Livelihood</span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Scaling up Quality Education for All </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Education and Employment of Persons with Disabilities </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Assistive and Affordable Technologies </span><em><span>Community Development</span></em><span style="font-size: 9pt">Community based Learning and Outreach </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Open Education Resources: Models to Choose Adopt and Adapt </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Innovative Pathways to Knowledge Society </span><em><span>Skills Development</span></em><span style="font-size: 9pt">Skills Development for National Development </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Global Development Discourses; North-South Dialogues </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Regional Co-operation: Who can benefit from whom?</span><em><span>Formal Education</span></em><span style="font-size: 9pt">Revamping Teacher Education </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Open Schooling </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Technologies for Scaling up ODL programmes </span><span style="font-size: 9pt">Quality Issues</span> <p>PCF6 as an international conference will explore the contribution of open and distance learning to international development goals, by opening up access to learning at every level. The Forum brings together practitioners, researchers, planners and policy makers in the fields of open and distance learning and development from over 70 countries. It provides opportunities to share experience and expertise, and to contribute to future policy and provision. Participants will represent international institutions and agencies active in the field, including funding bodies and technology providers. Professor M.S. Swaminathan is PCF6’s Honorary Chair. Forum Co-chairs are Sir John Daniel, President & CEO of COL, and Professor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice-Chancellor of IGNOU.</p>
LOCATION:Kochi, Kerala, India (IND)
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