 The surge of new and modern technologies has caused a major shift in the approach to lesson planning and delivery within the education system in St. Lucia and the world. Through the St. Lucia Connected Program, the Curriculum and Materials Development Unit CAMDU has been engaging teachers in training in the use of open education resources, OERs, which are free online resources that teachers can utilize and adapt to their lessons, making it easier for students to understand and learn. Acting Curriculum Officer for Media Technology Karen Rainey says CAMDU is hoping to build OER content resources for all teachers at the primary and secondary levels in St. Lucia in order to share and collaborate, utilizing local resources instead of depending on external ones. She says the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College is currently running a program for teachers under the project for technology-enabled instruction involving three different streams. Stream one will be the full certification. Stream two we have teachers doing animation and audiovisual production and for stream three which is today we have teachers doing design and lesson plans and OER content. With OERs you are able to remix and once we have the proper licensing on the Creative Commons and you adhere to the licenses and you do your attributions you are able to remix that and make it more localized for your students to be able to reach every single person that you can. Being creative in content formation is the mission of Stream two which was facilitated by digital imaging and animation specialist Janelle Ross. She says the whole plan is to engender a new crop of teachers that are creative away from the chalk and talk. So instead of just sitting with your class in a little you know with your blackboard writing you now get them engaged into creating videos as part of assessments so we're encouraging teachers to not just only create their own content which is relevant for St. Lucia and the Caribbean but to also engage their students so that they can develop the skills that they need for the 21st century. Chief of party with the St. Lucia connected program Royston Emmanuel hopes the sharing of the newly created templates using free online software will foster a new dynamic educational approach at no cost to school teachers eliminating the need to purchase expensive programs. I think the goal of training in any technology learning is to expose teachers to tools that are free that are open source that are easily used and also to engender a spirit of sharing among teachers. Okay because if I pay for tool it's highly unlikely that I want to share my resources with anybody but if those tools are easily accessible and free to use then it kind of more or less encourages teachers to share because the investment they made wasn't a financial one. I know they invest time and effort but I guess it would be easier because they did not pay for those tools which is kind of restrictive. St. Lucia Connected is a program developed by World Education Inc. and the Department of Education Innovation and Vocational Training to empower youth and educators to become digital literacy leaders in their communities and to increase the island's capacity for resilience. From the communications unit of the Ministry of Education Sustainable Development Innovation Science Technology and Vocational Training I am Chris Sattney reporting.