Open Training Platform

• Thematic framework: Multilingualism and Cyberspace
• Geographical outreach: International
• Types of project: Capacity-building
  
  
• Main responsible:
  Armelle Arrou
  UNESCO CI/INF
  Paris
  France

Summary of the activities
The Open Training Platform is an on line collaborative hub to free learning resources in all development domains, especially language to better serve local people knowledge and skills acquisition needs worldwide.

The OTP is an unprecedented collaborative effort hyper-linking to 2300 resources constantly completed. It is enriched by over 1,600 members from all UN agencies and over 630 other institutions dedicated to development including languages issues. The free learning resources are available in the domains of Language courses, Conversational languages courses, Language teaching, Language acquisition, Language exams preparation, Linguistics.

The OTP is a significant tool for languages’ learning and preservation as well as for the reinforcement of practitioners’ capacities in the linguistic domain.

Main partners
In addition to the 1600 members who voluntarily enrich the OTP, this open multi-partners initiatives counts
- 9 UN agencies (FAO, ILO ITC, ITU, UNEP, UNESCO, UNITAR, UNU, UNV and WHO),
- development agencies (IDRC and SPIDER) and well as - initiatives advocating for open educational content (APC, CURRIKI, Development Gateway, GLP, Merlot African Network, OER Commons and the Shuttleworth Foundation).

UNESCO expects more UN agencies and development stakeholders of join this open and collaborative effort.