Empowerment of Women: An Analysis of Gender Training Frameworks for Open Learning Systems.

Open learning systems can challenge the conventional processes operating in curriculum design and development in order to address the need for gender training. An analysis of the existing gender training frameworks would reveal that women's needs for income generation can be actively promoted while at the same time recognising their strategic needs for confidence building and leadership training inputs. Gender training built around this perspective would serve both practical and strategic gender interests. Institutional policy informs of the nature of gender training. Open learning systems ran choose to adopt gender-specific or gender-transformative policies in design and development of self instructional materials and delivery mechanisms. Collaboration with user agencies such as NGOs/voluntary organizations is vital during both the development and the delivery of gender training courses and programmes. Annu J. Thomas offers some valuable insights in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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