Building on the legacy of OTGA, the second OceanTeacher Global Academy Project (OTGA-2), which commenced on 1 April 2020, aims to further develop the collaborative network of training centres that share education and training materials, staff and technical expertise, and provide cost-effective education and training services for the needs of IOC Member States. The OTGA-2 includes new initiatives and challenges now in place, for example, the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Aside from various international processes that OTGA-2 supports, it also fully contributes to the implementation of the IOC Capacity Development Strategy, addressing key outputs identified in the strategy through increased support in the training activities of all IOC programmes. This support includes the Tsunami Unit, Ocean Literacy, Harmful Algal Bloom programme, IODE, Ocean Sciences and the Ocean Decade, amongst others. With greater involvement by the IOC Regional Sub-Commissions and Regional Committees, these regional bodies will ensure the capacity development needs of the regions are being met by supporting the Regional and Specialized Training Centres. The network of Training Centres includes Regional (Region focused) and Specialized (topic focused) Training Centres. Training topics will also include tools that can help Member States achieving the SDGs as well as emerging topics such as Ocean Acidification and Blue Carbon, interalia.

New, ready to deliver course topics are being made available online. The e-Learning Platform is an essential component of OTGA. As a fully-fledged Learning Management System (LMS), it facilitates face to face (F2F) classroom learning, blended learning and online learning. All training course contents are hosted on the OT e-Learning Platform. It also allows the use of different languages for training: currently OTGA has courses in 4 different languages (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese). Content is freely available during and after courses (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license), although registration on the OT platform is mandatory.

OTGA-2 will foster collaborations beyond UNESCO/IOC to position itself to become the ‘training hub’ for ocean sciences , including topics related to the management of the impact and interactions with human activities .

For an overview of courses visit http://classroom.oceanteacher.org

 

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