PCF5 Session Reports

This is a table of contents for reports on sessions at the Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF5).

Children and Young People

 * Innovation in curriculum and assessment: using technologies to improve teaching and learning, Monday, 14 July, 14:00 am
 * Open schools: assessing the impact in reaching the marginalised communities, Monday, 14 July, 14:00 am
 * Networks and resources for learners in difficult circumstances and rural areas, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Open schools: expanding access to pre-tertiary and vocational education and training, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Innovation in curriculum and assessment: improving school quality, Tuesday, 15 July, 2:00 pm
 * Innovations in curriculum and assessment: rethinking higher education, Tuesday, 15 July, 2:00 pm
 * Innovation in curriculum and assessment: opportunities in training teachers, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * Research into pratice: what tracer studies tell us, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * Open schools: tutorial, learner support and examinations, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * Teacher education, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * Meeting the needs of young people through innovative use of technology, Wednesday, 16 July, 4:00 pm

Livelihoods

 * Livelihoods opening session: introduction to open and eLearning for livelihoods, Monday, 14 July, 11:30 am
 * Global learning networks, Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Global learning networks, report on agricultural learning resources, Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Open and distance learning policy workshop, Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Learning development workshop, Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Using appreciative inquiry as a planning too for positive results, Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Creating and sharing open educational resources, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Teaching vocational skills: session one, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Improving access for people in prisons - case studies from Nigeria and Europe: part one, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Cooperative social learning communities, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Innovations: mobile learning, Tuesday, 15 July, 2:00 pm
 * Institutional innovations, Tuesday, 15 July, 2:00 pm
 * Climate change, environment and livelihoods
 * Training staff and learners in open and distance learning, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * Gender in development, Wednesday, 16 July, 4:00 pm
 * Teaching vocational skills, Thursday, 17 July, 11:00 am

Governance, Conflict and Social Justice

 * Improving access: reaching marginalised communities and people, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Human rights and conflict prevention, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Governance and social justice - sessions 1 and 2, Tuesday 11:00 am and 2:00 pm
 * Improving access, part 1, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * Improving access, part 2, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * Improving access: the role of higher education and distance education in prisons, Tuesday 15 July and Wednesday, 16 July

Health

 * HIV/AIDS and access to learning, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * Open educational resources and health education, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * Open educational resources and health education, part 2, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * HIV/AIDS health-worker training, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * Open and distance learning for health-worker training, Thursday, 17 July, 11:00 am
 * Cross-border of resources for public awareness of health issues, Thursday, 17 July 2008, 11:00 am
 * Workshop on open educational resources and health education, Thursday, 17 July 2008, 11:00 am
 * Cross-border development of resources for public awareness of health issues, Thursday, 17 July, 2:00 pm
 * Online training for health workers, Thursday, 17 July, 2:00 pm

Cross-cutting theme: Appropriate learning technologies

 * Mobile Learning (1), Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Integrating interactive multimedia packages into formal and non-formal learning, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Open educational resources, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Community radio, part 1, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * Appropriate learning technologies: comunity radio, part 2, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * eLearning - guidance for policy makers and practitioners, Wednesday, 16 July, 4:00 pm
 * eLearning guidance for policymakers and practitioners, Wednesday, 16 July, 4:00 pm
 * Commonwealth values in a digital world: WikiEducator - an international community project, Wednesday, 16 July, 4:00 pm

Cross-cutting theme: Institutions

 * The Virtual University of Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC), part 1, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * Institutions: Wiki standards and qualifications framework, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * VUSSC, part 2, Thursday, 17 July, 11:00 am
 * What is the value of good research in open and distance learning?, Thursday, 17 July, 11:00 am

Forumwide issues

 * Open educational resources: copyright, Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Female literacy, education and empowerment: risks and potentials of open and distance learning, Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Institutions: models of dual mode delivery, Monday, 14 July, 2:00 pm
 * Cross-border education, part 1, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Cross-border education, part 2, Tuesday, 15 July, 2:00 pm
 * Learner support - part 1, Tuesday, 15 July, 11:00 am
 * Learner support - part 2, Tuesday 15 July, 2:00 pm
 * Technology in support of worldwide networks, Wednesday, 16 July, 11:00 am
 * 'Open Microphone' session on Self-organised Communities of Learning (SoCoL), Wednesday, 16 July, lunch break
 * Connections in Commonwealth Education, Wednesday, 16 July, 2:00 pm
 * Parents, carers, children and ICT, Wednesday, 16 July, 4:00 pm