Monday, December 23, 2024
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has embraced a new approach to development that puts innovation at the centre in the delivery of Bank projects at both the staff and client levels. The Bank sees its role as not only that of a financier and policy advisor but also as a promoter of knowledge and innovation. By Foster N. Ofosu, Capacity Development Specialist. African Development […]
Professor Hani Ghali, Centre for Emerging Learning Technologies CELT, BUE The noticeable progress of information and communication technologies and associated development tools, together with the availability of reliable internet connectivity, have created unlimited opportunities for eLearning activities. These have motivated teachers to think about new non-conventional interactive eLearning modes of teaching and associated learning activities. Amongst the numerous interactive learning activities, online experimentation is considered […]
Education today is more global than ever, and eLearning is one of the big drivers behind this change. With MOOCs coming out of leading universities transmitted all over the world, teachers are able to reach a more massive audience than ever before. But as always with mass production, there is a movement in the opposite direction. Is a one-size-fits-all approach really the best way […]
This is a guest post from eLearning Africa 2016 Silver Sponsor Wiley Not too long ago, normal meant stable. Normal meant slow and steady. Normal meant you could predict what was going to happen tomorrow based on what happened today. But the world is very different now. In today’s reality, normal means disruption. Normal means change. Normal means expect the unexpected. Normal means that […]
Scrolling through Vine or Snapchat, it’s incredible to see how much video content teens naturally create when left to their own devices. Now, one educator in Africa is harnessing his students’ natural proclivity for the medium to make them better-engaged members of their community. Joel Bato, a teacher in technical drawing at Gayaza High School in Uganda, sends his students out into the community […]
Serial social entrepreneur and youth mentor Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji is the founder of RISE Networks, a leading Nigerian development concern with a focus on education and technology. From its beginnings as a youth magazine, RISE has grown to encompass the Rise National Youth Forum, a youth empowerment event held in about 20 universities across 23 states of Nigeria, and numerous programmes relating to job creation, […]
“What after all is innovation? It’s finding a new way to do something, or provide a service, sometimes entirely novel, sometimes combining two existing things.” Toby Shapshak, keynote speaker at this year’s eLearning Africa, columnist, strategist, editor of Stuff.com Magazine and contributor to CNN, The Guardian and Forbes, believes Africa is a mobile-driven continent. He shared some of his insights with us regarding innovation […]
With the launch of the Knowledge Bank, Egypt has established itself as an African leader in open education. No surprise then that the subject of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) should be coming in for close scrutiny in Cairo. Dr Zeinab El Maadawi, an Associate Professor and Expert in eLearning and International Education Management at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, has been studying […]
According to the 2015 UN Millennium Development Goals Report, around 33 million children of primary school age and 22 million adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa are out of school. 55% of those children are girls. Camfed, an international non-profit organisation, is addressing this problem in an innovative way. Camfed has developed a new alert technology within its programme and financial database to help ensure that […]
Making eLearning accessible to all isn’t just about boosting class performance; in some cases, it can actually mean the difference between an institution shutting down or staying open. In October 2015, student uprisings, organised around the hashtag #feesmustfall, interrupted business as usual at campuses across South Africa. The protests were initially organised in response to a 10.5% increase in fees at the University of […]
