Beyond MERLOT
Discipline Communities of MERLOT offer links to sites relevant to the teaching in the discipline including links affliatied organization, professional Journals and various community related informations. If you are member of a community, please make sure to visit the Community Portal. Other MAN-related programs and organizations are given below.
MAN-Related Program and Organizations |
URL Access |
| UNESCO has completed the first phase of developing a consolidated information system and database on ODL in sub-Saharan Africa. The broader purpose of this ‘knowledge base’ is to offer an integrated knowledge guide to distance education and open learning. | http://www.africaodl.org/ |
| The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. | http://www.col.org/colweb/site/pid/2922 |
| the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has been committed to advancing the role of information in development. A tradition of innovation that began with an emphasis on building databases and information systems has evolved into a focus on the transformative nature of information and communications technologies (ICTs). IDRC was one of the first development agencies to embrace ICTs as a key means to foster development and alleviate poverty. | http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-43441-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html |
Association for the Development of Education in Africa ADEA is first and foremost a forum for policy dialogue on education policies. One of its major objectives is to encourage exchanges and reinforce links between ministries of education and development agencies. |
http://www.adeanet.org/workgroups/en_wgde.html |
| Information for Development (infoDev) Program works to promote better understanding and effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as tools of poverty reduction and broad-based, sustainable development. | http://www.infodev.org/en/index.html |
| eLearning Africa is the largest and most comprehensive capacity-development event for technology-enhanced education and training in Africa. | http://www.elearning-africa.com/index.php |
| The World Bank's Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) is a global partnership of more than 100 learning centers (GDLN Affiliates) that offer the use of advanced information and communication technologies to people working in development around the world. | |
| The Association of African Universities (AAU) is the apex organization and forum for consultation, exchange of information and co-operation among institutions of higher education in Africa. | http://www.aau.org/about/index.htm |
| Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation) represents both a belief in the importance and viability of higher education in Africa and a mechanism to provide meaningful assistance to its renaissance. | http://www.foundation-partnership.org/index.php |
| The purpose of New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) ICT programme is to accelerate development of ICT infrastructure and ICT skills. It is also intended to bridge digital divide in Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world . | NEPAD |
| The African Online Digital Library (AODL) adopts the emerging best practices of the American digital library community and apply them in an African context. | http://www.aodl.org/index.php |
| Infotheque (Association des Universites Francophones) - catalogue référence des ressources pédagogiques et scientifiques disponibles en texte intégral sur Internet. Ces ressources, qui concernent l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche, peuvent être aussi bien en langue locale qu'en français, mais les notices décrivant les ressources sont, elles, systématiquement rédigées en français. | http://www.infotheque.info/ |
| The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access. Through a process of garnering permissions, copying Web sites, and delivering them to intranet Web servers INSIDE our partner institutions in developing countries, we deliver millions of multimedia documents that can be instantly accessed by patrons over their local area networks at no cost. | http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary/ |