Training Courses

From Digital Divide to Digital Dividend: What Will It Take?

Sir John Daniel and Paul West explore the difficulties inherent in bringing postsecondary education to developing countries. While current research points to online education as the best financial alternative for these impoverished countries, cross-border educational solutions are largely unavailable, making local solutions a necessity. Daniel and West advocate the use of open source educational resources (OERs), now more accessible than ever, in creating online postsecondary programs. They provide considerations to guide the use of OERs in developing nations, address infrastructure and policy issues that must be addressed to support widespread implementation of online learning, and provide suggestions for making good Internet bandwidth affordable to institutions and ensuring that students have access to it. They provide a useful plan for bridging the digital divide and making digital dividends accessible for economically disadvantaged populations worldwide. Note: This article was originally published in Innovate (http://www.innovateonline.info/) as: Daniel, J., and P. West. 2006. From Digital Divide to Digital Dividend: What will it take?. Innovate 2 (5). http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=252 (accessed July 10, 2006). The article is reprinted here with permission of the publisher, The Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University.

MIT Open Courseware

Background and links to specific Sustainability relevant courses developed by MIT. These courses are provided for free under a creative commons user license.

ItrainOnline

ItrainOnline is a joint initiative of seven organizations with exceptional expertise in computer and Internet training in the South. While there is an abundance of information on using ICTs on the web, our experience has shown that is difficult to locate high quality and appropriate information that is suited to the ways development organizations and civil society groups in the South learn about and use ICTs. ItrainOnline responds to the need for a single source on the web containing a selection of the best and most relevant computer and Internet training resources for development and social change. By pooling our resources to create this site, the ItrainOnline partners can reduce any overlaps in our online content and training programs, learn from each other, and better focus our investments in ICT training. Most importantly, we can ensure that learners and trainers in the South have a convenient entry point on the web for the resources and tools they need.

SChemNet Courses and Training

This folder contains links to courses and training materials relevant to Sustainable and Green Chemistry.

CEEP Workshops and Training

This folder contains information pertaining to specific SKN supported workshops and training courses conducted jointly with the Center for Economic and Environmental Partnerships (CEEP).

Sustainability Vision of the Future Survey

This folder contains a fun survey developed by Robert Costanza at the University of Vermont's Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.

One Earth Campaign Videos

 

Fairleigh Dickinson University Sustainable Management Course

Information pertaining to a post graduate course developed for experienced managers and delivered by Fairleigh Dickinson University's Institute for Sustainable Enterprise.