For Release Upon Receipt - January 5, 2010
St. Augustine
The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 31st, 2010.
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.
Theme: Access & Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives
Sub-Themes:
Social Justice
Community Development
Skills Development
Formal Education
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.
Information on available subsidies and this year’s Excellence in Distance Education Awards will be available in January. Registration and accommodation details will follow. To find out more, please visit www.col.org/pcf6.