2008/04/30
A new blended learning program to train mother and child health care specialists in Mongolia was launched on April 30, 2008. Organized by the TDLC and Kitasato University’s School of Nursing, with the cooperation of the Mongolian Nursing Association, the full day lecture was delivered via GDLN videoconference to a total of 440 participants at 5 sites in Ulaan Bataar and other rural locations.
2008/03/05
As part of an ongoing collaborative research project, a videoconference workshop on “Earthquake Risk Perception” was held March 5, 2008 to share the results of a survey conducted in 2007/2008 by the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) on the risk perception of residents, government officials, building contractors and masons.
2008/01/24
Researchers from 5 countries connected via the GDLN on January 24, 2008 for the Tokyo International Workshop 2008 on Earthquake Disaster Mitigation for Safer Housing. Part of a collaborative research project initiated by 4 Japanese institutions including the Building Research Institute, the workshop was organized to share research and development output as well as to discuss activity programs among participating research institutes in Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Turkey.
2007/12/19
An ILO public seminar on the Realization of Decent Work in Africa was held on December 19, 2007 connecting the TDLC with Ghana and Tanzania. Over 70 experts and practitioners gathered in Tokyo and took part in an active Q & A session with panelists.
2007/10/26
The “Africa Asia NGO Network Workshop in Tokyo”, sponsored by JICA and organized by the TICAD Civil Society Forum, conducted its closing session on October 26, 2007 via videoconference connecting from the TDLC with 6 African countries to share the results of the 2-day workshop.
A Japan/WorldBank Partnership project promoting knowledge sharing for development through the GDLN, a videoconference based distance-learning network spanning more than 120 centers worldwide.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
What are the implications of high and volatile oil prices on the global economy? What are the policy options?
These issues will be discussed in a timely new GDLN blended learning program “Oil Price Volatility, Economic Impacts and Risk Management in Asia” offered by the TDLC and the World Bank Institute (WBI) in cooperation with the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ). The session is based on the Global Finance Forum held in Washington DC in March 2008 organized by WBI and George Washington University.
Government officials, executives, analysts and practitioners in energy-related sectors are invited to the first videoconference session on June 4, 2008 connecting Tokyo, Bangkok, Beijing, Jakarta and Washington. This is a fee-based program.
To participate, please register on-line.
Closing date: May 30th.
MFToT 5 will be delivered July - October 2008.
On-line registration is open now.
The Microfinance Training of Trainers Course is a unique blended learning program which incorporates CD-ROMs, web-based discussion and videoconference. Since 2005, 224 “graduates” from 28 countries been accredited as certified microfinance distance learning course trainers.
Localization efforts are underway in many countries, and course materials have been translated into Chinese, Khmer, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, Mongolian and Indonesian to increase accessibility.
Download the MFTOT5 brochure.pdf.
MFToT incorporates Moodle as its learning management system. For more information, see http://mftot.jointokyo.org/.
Monday, May 26, 2008
The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow. The World Bank Tokyo Office, Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) and UNICEF will initiate a Youth Dialogue via videoconference on the occasion of TICAD IV (Tokyo International Conference on African Development) to encourage the younger generation from Asian and African countries to add their voice to this important process.
If you wish to observe this session at the TDLC, please contact .
The session will also be webcast in real time.
In a training course developed by the TDLC, teachers and instructors across Asia sat in a virtual classroom to learn how ICTs can be incorporated to enhance multicultural education. Designed to accompany Kids Initiative, a program that enables school children to conduct exchanges with counterparts in other countries through GDLN videoconference, teachers across borders showed a strong interest in new methods of education to prepare children to meet the challenges of globalization.
When Yae Yoshino, Lecturer at Kitasato University’s School of Nursing, visited Mongolia, she was struck by the textbooks that young nurses were using. They weren’t really “books” at all, but thin booklets translated from Russian, imported from the former Soviet Union. Not much was up to date – including nursing education. Inspired by the highly motivated nurses and midwives she met there, Yoshino contacted the TDLC to inquire about distance learning opportunities, and a partnership was born.
Welcome to the new regional association of GDLN Distance Learning Centers. We hope to combine our strengths to serve your needs for knowledge programs and services.
The TDLC is a Japan/World Bank Distance Learning Partnership Project which aims to contribute to development and poverty alleviation. It is supported by a grant from the Government of Japan, used to launch and manage the TDLC. These resources allow the TDLC to establish partnerships in the public and private sector, develop content and facilitate knowledge exchange so that Japan's experience and expertise in development can be better utilized by developing countries.
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World Bank Seminars for GDLN Centers
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