The Open Training Platform continues to expand!
17-12-2007 (Paris)
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The United Nation Environment Programme (UNEP) is the seventh UN agency to join the Open Training Platform (OTP). The OTP is a UNESCO-powered hub offering free training resources on a wide range of development topics, fostering cooperation to provide free and open content for development.
At present, the OTP regroups partners from all UN agencies (FAO, ILO/ITC, ITU, UNESCO, UNITAR, UNV, WHO and UNEP), worldwide development practitioners and agencies, as well as regional and local NGOs and CBOs.
Thanks to the growing number of online members (870 to date) and partners, over 1600 free learning resources are now accessible to users, better serving the learning needs of both local and specialized communities, trainers and decision makers. The number of available OTP learning resources is constantly on the increase. By November 2007, online hits had increased by 20% (at annual figure of 44 000 visitors).
This nine-month old web portal facilitates access to non-certifying courses and training resources from over 600 different development institutions worldwide in twenty-one key domains for local capacity sustainable development. The domains covered include amongst others, agriculture, entrepreneurship, employment, media, ICT, health, HIV and AIDS, environment, life skill, community development, and gender issues.
As an ever-evolving online service that aims to continuously tackle local learning needs, the OTP team plan to develop a customization option for communities within the year to come, and will further develop its “Training-on-demand” service. It is also planned to make the OTP available to users in French and to reinforce the active participation of developing countries to bring the target audience on board.
The OTP relies on expanding commitments from big and small development stakeholders, from members, and from partners such as SPIDER and IDRC to help meet the learning needs challenge.
Please feel free to visit and use the resources on www.opentrainingplatform.org.
Thanks to the growing number of online members (870 to date) and partners, over 1600 free learning resources are now accessible to users, better serving the learning needs of both local and specialized communities, trainers and decision makers. The number of available OTP learning resources is constantly on the increase. By November 2007, online hits had increased by 20% (at annual figure of 44 000 visitors).
This nine-month old web portal facilitates access to non-certifying courses and training resources from over 600 different development institutions worldwide in twenty-one key domains for local capacity sustainable development. The domains covered include amongst others, agriculture, entrepreneurship, employment, media, ICT, health, HIV and AIDS, environment, life skill, community development, and gender issues.
As an ever-evolving online service that aims to continuously tackle local learning needs, the OTP team plan to develop a customization option for communities within the year to come, and will further develop its “Training-on-demand” service. It is also planned to make the OTP available to users in French and to reinforce the active participation of developing countries to bring the target audience on board.
The OTP relies on expanding commitments from big and small development stakeholders, from members, and from partners such as SPIDER and IDRC to help meet the learning needs challenge.
Please feel free to visit and use the resources on www.opentrainingplatform.org.
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