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International Memberships
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Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU) Full Members |
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AAOU is an association of open universities of the Asian region. It came into being with the objective to provide and propagate learning opportunities to mankind through friendship and exchange among open higher education universities. Currently AAOU has total 60 members out of which 44 are Full Members while 16 are Associate Members. However, 2 are individual supporting members. It is a matter of pride that Virtual University of Pakistan enjoys a Full Member status with AAOU.
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Talloires Network
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The Talloires Network is a network of higher education institutions that aims to promote civic
sense and social responsibility among the member countries at global level. The good practices at
this platform are expected to undergo expansion for collective benefit of the member and non-member
institutions. The Talloires network achieves this objective by acknowledging the civic engagement
activities of the member institutions, sharing the information by publicizing the resources and
tools used for civic activities, assisting member institutions in boosting civic engagement through
sponsorship and related measures, and connecting faculty and administrators in the network by
arranging events at regional and global level.
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The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)
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ICDE is the leading organization at global level for open, distance, flexible and online education.
It enjoys consultative partner status with UNESCO and promotes its key value – the universal right
to education for all. ICDE was established in 1938 in Canada with the name International Council
for Correspondence Education. It has members from more than 60 countries throughout the world. Its
permanent secretariat is in Oslo, Norway, since 1988.
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Open Education Consortium
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The Virtual University of Pakistan has become a member of the Open Education Consortium which is a non-profit organization registered in USA and operating across the globe. It is a network of educational institutions, organizations, and individuals that aims to promote innovation, openness, collaboration, and collective development.
The consortium is based on superior values of openness, global focus, equity, collaboration, and multiculturalism. It works for raising awareness, networking & community development, advocacy & advising, capacity building & training, implementation support, and consultancies. It believes in “Empowerment through education” and visualizes that everyone, everywhere has access to high quality educational resources which can be widely shared.
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Association of Quality Assurance Agencies of the Islamic World (IQA)
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The Virtual University of Pakistan has been granted associate membership of IQA on August 31, 2015. This membership is an endeavor to improve the University’s teaching-learning processes in order to achieve the objective of providing quality education to learners. IQA aims to promote and enhance quality higher education in the countries of the Islamic world since its inception on May 4, 2011. Under the QA-Islamic umbrella, the participating agencies and ministries agree to work for quality enhancement in higher education by adopting the Kuala Lumpur Declaration 2009 and the QA-Islamic Constitution.
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Benchmarking Framework for Online, Open, Smart, and Technology-Enhanced Higher Education
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The Benchmarking Framework for Online, Open, Smart, and Technology-Enhanced Higher Education is an assessment tool for online and open universities aimed to identify its strengths and vulnerabilities and benchmark themselves in a rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. The Framework has been collectively developed by members of the Consortium – experts from online and open universities, quality assurance agencies and higher education associations with respect to unique aspects of online education and the rising need in quality assurance.
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Federation of the Universities of Islamic World (FUIW)
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The Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW) project for the development of open education aims to encourage professors at FUIW member universities to adopt open education practices, whether in terms of initial training for professors or continuing professional training, by creating a permanent engine capable of making university professors qualified professors in open education.
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