Training for blended learning, Maldives

COL supported Maldives’ National Institute of Education (NIE) to organise a Blended Learning Design and Open Educational Resources (OER) workshop in late May 2023. Inaugurated by the Minister of State for Education, Dr Abdulla Rasheed Ahmed, the workshop was facilitated by COL’s Dr Sanjaya Mishra, Director: Education, as part of a special COL project on IT  Augmentation.  Through this project, available to small and least-developed Member States, COL is helping build national resilience and strengthen institutional capacities to use technology-enabled learning. Introducing and modelling green technologies for ICT in teaching and learning is a significant component. Thirty-one workshop participants from NIE and its Teaching Resource Centres across the islands participated in finding, using and remixing OER to design blended courses.