COUNTRY/REGIONAL PROJECTS
GLP has country/regional-level projects in Africa, Central America and Asia.
PORTAL SUPPORT and DEVELOPMENT
GLP creates, develops and manage portals for development and educational projects and groups.
CONTENT
GLP supports the sharing of educational resources and materials.
COMMUNITIES
GLP hosts communities to share and exchange practices, ideas and information.
• Education Groups
• Educational Practices
ONLINE COURSES
GLP hosts online professional development courses.
COUNTRY/REGIONAL PROJECTS
Afghanistan Higher Education Project (HEP), Afghanistan:
In partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education and USAID/Afghanistan, GLP created and supports the Afghanistan Higher Education Project portal in English and Dari for teacher training faculties. It features online discussions, a multi-lingual content library, home pages for teaching faculties, and information about national education activities. Read more about GLP in Afghanistan.
Educational Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP2), Zambia:
In partnership with the Ministry of Education and USAID/Zambia, GLP hosts online communities about education-related resources, Education in Zambia and Community Schools; supports education support collaboration by providing a community for Cooperating Partners and creating an online, education sector project database; and supports the expansion and use of ICT infrastructure and resources to Colleges of Education throughout the country. Read more about GLP in Zambia.
Palestinian Youth Portal:
Working with the USAID/West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Youth and Sports and other international partners in the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership, GLP is implementing a Palestinian Youth Portal to link and support the activities of Youth Development Resource Centers in the West Bank.
Participation, Education, and Knowledge Strengthening Project (PEAKS), Central Asia:
GLP developed an online community that serves as a post-project repository of materials and resources created for the Participation, Education, and Knowledge Strengthening Project (PEAKS) teacher training activities in the Central Asian Republics of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. GLP conducted workshops for teachers from across the region on how to use portal tools, find documents and communicate with each other through the portal.
Rwanda Education Commons:
The Rwanda Education Commons (REC) is a pilot of the Africa Education Commons (AEC), a virtual commons where education stakeholders collaborate, share and partner. The REC is developing institutional capacity at leading education institutions with a focus on multimedia content development and adaptation of learning materials, providing an interactive education portal for educator collaboration, and coordinating with ICT for education investments to improve teaching and learning outcomes and link Rwanda educators with groups and colleagues in the region and worldwide.
PORTAL SUPPORT and DEVELOPMENT
Afterschool.org:
GLP created and supports Afterschool.org, used by afterschool program directors who want to improve the quality of their programs.
NGOConnect:
GLP developed and hosts NGOConnect.Net, a dynamic and interactive portal dedicated to connecting and strengthening NGOs, networks, and NGO support organizations worldwide.
NPIConnect.NET:
GLP designed and maintains NPIConnect, a resource and information exchange designed to bolster the technical and organizational capacities of NPI grantees to implement HIV programs more effectively.
Women in Law Program (WILpower), Middle East:
GLP provides technical services for a portal in Arabic and English for collaboration, information-sharing and content-exchange among WILpower participants.
CONTENT
Gender and Education:
Managed by EQUATE (Achieving Equality in Education) project, this community encourages knowledge sharing and information exchange for stakeholders involved in gender-equitable practices in basic education.
Open Educational Resources (OER) Feasibility and Criteria Study:
GLP is participating in the feasibility study of cross-border use of Open Educational Resources led by the European Schnoolnet with the support of the Hewlett Foundation. The study’s aim is to find a pilot set of open resources that “travel well,” to identify an internationally usable set of criteria on how to select such materials and to develop a framework on how to support a network of teachers for continued collaboration.
COMMUNITIES
GLP hosts communities to share and exchange practices, ideas and information.
Education Groups
• American Federation of Teachers: GLP created a pilot community, Civics Mosaic, for the International Affairs unit of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to support the Civic Mosaics international exchange program for secondary social studies teachers from Russian, Eurasia and the U.S. who seek to connect civic knowledge and civic engagement in their classroom.
• Education for All (EFA) Fast Track Initiative (FTI) Secretariat:
Two members-only communities for task forces of the FTI provide a repository for key documents and a meeting place for collaboration.
• Escuelas Activas:
The Escuelas Activas community uses GLP to support the “Active Schools” activities and methodologies worldwide. The bilingual (Spanish and English) community offers a digital library of pedagogical and technical materials and a space for online discussions.
• Notre Dame of Marbel University, Philippines:
GLP training was provided to more than 400 teachers to reach 6,000 educators in the Philippines in 2006.
• Training, Internships, Exchanges, and Scholarships (TIES) Program, Mexico:
Since 2006 the TIES online community has supported the USAID/Mexico TIES Program. TIES is a public-private partnership of 150 higher education institutions, government and the private sector in Mexico and the United States.
• UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team for Education:
GLP provided online registration and a discussion forum for the May 2007 business meeting and symposium of the IATT.
Educational Practices
• Breakthrough Ideas in Education Forum:
In 2007 GLP hosted a forum to capture innovative ideas and best practices submitted on the topic of “Breakthrough Ideas in Education.” The six promising ideas were chosen by an international panel of judges, and each winner was awarded $1,000 at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) conference in February 2007.
• Removing Barriers to Accessing Quality Education Discussion:
In 2007 GLP provided the online platform for a global dialogue organized by USAID, the World Bank and UNICEF on removing barriers to education as part of the EFA Fast Track Initiative. More than 100 participants from 35 countries contributed to discussions about the monetary costs of schooling, learning and quality, barriers to basic education, and the School Fees Abolition Initiative.
ONLINE COURSES
GLP hosts the online Basic Education Professional Development course, designed by George Washington University, for district education officers in education planning and statistics at courses.glp.net.