可持续发展的学习：使命、目标与战略——访英联邦学习共同体主席兼首席执行官阿莎·辛格·卡瓦

ICT Promote Learning for Sustainable Development —An Interview with Asha Kanwar%2C President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning

英联邦学习共同体(Commonwealth of Learning，简称COL)是国际远程 教育领域唯一的政府组织，目前拥有53个成员国，秉承“以学习促进发展”的理念， 关注教育和健康生活两大主题，鼓励开发和分享开放学习、优质远程教育知识、资源 和技术，致力于为更多的人、尤其是发展中国家提供更为多元的接受教育与培训的机 会。作为该组织主席兼首席执行官，阿莎·辛格·卡瓦(Asha Singh Kanwar)教授一直 致力于COL实践项目的推进及优质教育资源的开放。2009年因其个人的杰出成就， 阿莎·辛格·卡瓦获得国际开放远程教育理事会(International Council for Open and Distance Education，简称ICDE)个人卓越奖。 在联合国教科文组织举办的首届国际教育信息化会议上，阿莎·辛格·卡瓦做 了题为“普及优质学习内容”的主题演讲，同时主持“开发和分享学习内容：开放教 育资源和电子教科书”主题分组会议。为深入了解教育信息化的发展与趋势，我们专访了阿莎·辛格·卡瓦教 授。在访谈中，阿莎·辛格·卡瓦阐述了COL未来在提供开放优质教育资源、开发技术，助力未来公平、优质 教育方面的举措和规划，指出时代特征下，学习的内涵发生了一定的演变并不断扩大，学习的目标由“为了发 展”变为“为了可持续发展”，强调了信息通信技术(ICT)在教育普及、教师培训及评估等领域所发挥的重要作 用，指出各组织应为提供更为“合适的(Appropriate)、便于使用的(Available)、易于获取的(Accessible)”技术和资 源而努力。

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an intergovernmental organization to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge， resources and technologies. There are 53 member states. COL sticks to learning for sustainable development and focuses on two major topics， namely education and health life. The greatest impact is in supporting efforts to give the Commonwealth’s citizens more access to quality education and training through open， distance and e-learning. As the current President and Chief Executive Officer Professor， Asha Kanwar is one of the world’s leading advocates of learning for development. She devotes herself to prompting the projects of COL and the openness of quality resources. In 2009， she was awarded the Personal excellence award by the International Council for Open and Distance Education. And in 2014， she was awarded the Meritorious Service Award by the Asian Association of Open Universities. On the first International Conference on ICT and Post-2015 Education was organized in Qingdao by The UNESCO and The Government of the People’s Republic of China on 23-25 May 2015， Professor Asha Kanwar gave a speech about “Universal Access to Quality Content” and was the chairman of session of “Creating and sharing content: OER and digital textbooks”. During the conference， the International Comparative Studies Center for ICT in education conducted a in-depth interview of Professor Asha Kanwar. She explained the new challenge called “3Cs” of the future about the quality education， effective use of ICT for quality learning and equity in education. Because of the development of society， the definition of learning is changing. The goal has become “learning for sustainable development”. ICT is playing the more and more important role in transforming education. Global organizations need make efforts to provide more appropriate， more available and more accessible technology and resources.