Following a meeting between COL President and CEO, Professor Asha Kanwar and Tonga’s Minister of Education and Training, Honourable Penisimani Fifita, COL arranged to send 25 Aptus devices and 250 high-quality tablet computers to assist the Ministry in restoring classroom teaching in Tongan schools and colleges.
The National University of Samoa (NUS), the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the Samoa Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture collaborated on a research project to study the impact of COL’s technology Aptus in primary, secondary and higher education environments. Fifteen Aptus sets were sent to Samoa in the summer of 2016 for a two-phased study.
As part of COL’s Lifelong Learning for Farmers initiative, Aptus sets were provided to support Mann Deshi’s training in financial literacy, agricultural information, goat rearing, information and communications technology, basic computer literacy and entrepreneurship.
The Qatar Foundation: Reach Out to Asia, in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), ran a project between January and March 2016 using Aptus in Allama Iqbal Public School and College Kanju Swat, which allowed boys, grades 8 to 10, to access electronic learning materials from a local server without having to connect to
The capabilities that Aptus had to offer Fiji just blew me away. It was dynamic [and] at the same time user friendly. – Matai Tagicaki, Education Specialist, Fiji Higher Education Commission Despite the proliferation of online educational resources and networks, persistent barriers to Internet access can render these resources inaccessible. Fiji knows this well. As
COL provided twenty Aptus devices to support the roll-out of the Vanuatu Ministry of Education’s tablet project. Mr George Maeltoka, senior official at the ministry and a COL Focal Point, said that he believes the tablet project is well positioned to take advantage of Aptus for the delivery of important OER content. According to Mr