Tanzania’s ambitious plans for a programme of ICT-based learning across the country’s education system will be a step closer to reality by the time participants arrive in Dar es Salaam for eLearning Africa. Mr Mwanu Kuzi, the Director of Policy and Planning at the Ministry of Education, told eLearning Africa’s News Portal that a document outlining the Government’s plans for the programme, which has […]

“There is tremendous growth in SMS-based apps in countries like Kenya and Tanzania,” explains Anthony Kigombola of the MobileMonday team in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the worldwide community of mobile visionaries and developers. The Tanzanian MoMo chapter will host one of its legendary meetings at this year’s eLearning Africa.

      Exciting opportunities for learning innovation are on the horizon in Africa, says Michael Trucano, the World Bank’s Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist, who will deliver a keynote speech at eLearning Africa 2011. New submarine cables and backbone networks promise a new era of affordable, high speed broadband connectivity; eBooks offer a ‘huge potential’. New methods such as serious games for […]

A great way to find out what does and does not work in eLearning is to listen to those that have been conducting longitudinal research and developing empirical evidence over many years. Researchers at the University of Cape Town, Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz, director of the Centre for Educational Technology and Cheryl Brown, an award-winning lecturer at the Centre and their team have done […]

  Piers Bocock saw how the K4Health SMS project saved a dying mother’s life in central Malawi.

A ground-breaking project,  Bridgeit, locally known as Elimu kwa Teknolojia or Education through Technology, is now operating for nearly 80,000 pupils in 150 Tanzanian schools. The programme enables a teacher to download videos on math, science or HIV/AIDS to mobile phones which are connected to a TV set in the classroom. Students who have watched the videos achieve improved test results.

  New communications technology and social networking are about to influence the politics of the African continent once again. This time it is Nigeria, whose leaders are rapidly coming to terms with the political significance of new forms of communication and networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, as the country prepares to go to the polls in April.

The African Virtual University (AVU) launched the interactive Open Education Resources portal OER@AVU in January this year. The portal can be accessed at http://oer.avu.org and contains quality resources developed together with twelve universities in ten African countries. The resources are released under the Creative Commons open licence. Through the portal, AVU will enable academics throughout the African Continent and beyond to share, distribute and disseminate […]

Young technology entrepreneurs led by Sue Kahumbu and Charles Kithika have developed a pioneering voice-based mobile phone application called “iCow” that helps farmers to manage the breeding cycles of their dairy cows.The application handles dairy cow nutrition up to calving day, using prompts by the mobile phones now widespread in Kenya, even used by illiterate farmers. The pilot project won the “Apps4Africa” contest organised […]