Our Mission
Brains Global launched the Global Online Learning Alliance (GOLA) as a safe and productive place for government officials, multilateral agencies and civil society to produce policy recommendations is response to COVID-19 and the consequences it has for education in both the immediate term for continuity and the long-term for sustainability. Our organising partners from Catalyst, Millennium@EDU and Radix Education spread the reach of GOLA worldwide with a team long experienced in championing innovation in education and ICT.
Our video meetings provide a constructive and secure place for officials from around the world to collaborate and make genuine policy recommendations. With an unprecedented number of school closures in recent times and an overwhelming burden of new challenges, we are bringing the world’s education community together as part of the Global Online Learning Alliance. Please find more details of our video meetings below, which with the need for holistic engagement with solution providers allows limited yet essential participation of best in class industry partners.
Online Video Meetings
We host private video meetings for education & ICT officials in a unique format that is based around small private break-out rooms for governments & agencies to share their experiences and ideas. These are NOT webinars. The first private video meeting at the beginning of April was a listening exercise to hear the immediate challenges faced by governments and the purpose of the second video meeting was about how to address these challenges. 75 countries have now participated and the same common themes around teaching, pedagogy & assessment, ICTs, digital learning & delivery of content, and planning, policy & collaboration have emerged the world over.
Please take the time to download the reports (below) which are a succinct dissemination of the conference transcriptions. Our policy is summarise the key issues and recommendations but none of the quotes or what is said in the video meeting is made attributable to any one person.
GOLA GLOBAL VIDEO MEETINGS
UPCOMING MEETINGS
September 2020 (Date TBC)
“ICTs & Digital Learning – Improving Access & Management”
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
Thursday 9th July (14:00 GMT)
“Policy, Planning, Financing & Collaboration”
Wednesday 24th June 2020
“Teaching, Pedagogy & Assessment – Actions & Policy Recommendations”
Tuesday 28th April 2020
“Practical ICT for Education Policies:
Short-Term Solutions & Long-Term Frameworks”
Thursday 2nd April 2020
“Global School Closures – Meeting the Challenges for Educators”
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DOWNLOAD THE REPORTS
GOLA REGIONAL VIDEO MEETINGS
PREVIOUS MEETINGS
Wednesday 12th August 2020
“From Learning Loss to Long-Term Resilience:
Implementing Curriculum & Assessment Reform”
In Partnership with Cambridge
Monday 27th July 2020
“Asia Pacific: Lessons from COVID-19”
In Partnership with SMART Tech
Wednesday 22nd July 2020
“Digital Safeguarding for Learner Well-Being & Achievement”
In Partnership with Impero Software
Wednesday 1st July 2020
“Accelerated Recovery: Improving Outcomes with Blended Learning”
In Partnership with Whizz Education
Wednesday 17th June 2020
“School Re-Openings & Policies for Resilient Education, Post COVID-19”
In Partnership with Cambridge
The upcoming meetings schedule includes the global events and regional meetings also – all committed to producing policy advocacy from the dedicated working groups.
For further details please contact us at gola@brains.global
GOLA video meetings are built around a special format of ensuring that all government & international officials participate in dedicated working groups to produce guidelines and policy recommendations.
We are also providing further detailed insight into the practicalities of delivering online content and ensuring continuous education using e-learning technologies in the next edition of the Brains Education Report If you wish to contribute to the Brains Education Report or you wish for your company to have a special feature on the services you are offering then please email ber@brains.global
GOLA!
Principles
To bring together government and industry to enact polices and deliver technologies & content for online education
Education for all – improve accessibility and the quality of education using e-learning tools
To respond to the urgent needs of policy makers in providing solutions to the challenges they face during prolonged periods of school and university closures
Organising Partners
