Monday, September 15, 2025
Throughout its seven years, eLearning Africa has travelled the length and breadth of the African continent, from Addis Ababa, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in the East all the way to Accra, Dakar and Cotonou in the West and Lusaka in the South. This variety of locations affords different perspectives and diverse cultural contexts within which critical conversations on the evolution of eLearning in […]
Innovation and social entrepreneurship are taking off in a big way in Africa and huge progress is being made, especially when it comes to the growing community of women embracing technology in Africa. Change is happening rapidly, but what effects will this have on the Continent’s numerous traditions and cultures? Next year’s eLearning Africa conference will examine the crossroads of tradition, change and innovation.
With debate about the benefits and future of the MOOC dominating the educational blogosphere in the last year, discussions about the open sharing of educational resources are becoming more prevalent. Open Educational Resources, or OERs, offer a potential tool for impacting education in developing countries and fast growing economies, particularly in the emerging technology hubs of Africa. These open, freely available educational resources can […]
Can it be an asset for educational projects on the continent? The African continent is certainly in a good position to utilise knowledge and skills sourced through or funded by a “crowd”, as it can rely on a strong link between tradition and innovation. Whether to provide help in times of economic hardships or to demonstrate common solidarity with the community, alternative or complementary […]
With the vision of making “world class education accessible to everyone, everywhere,” the Talal Abu-Gazaleh University (TAGIUNI) is seeking to enter into partnership agreements with prestigious universities to create a new model for education.
In order to foster successful conversations that get to the heart of the topic of eLearning in Africa, the global conference eLearning Africa is calling for a wide range of proposals. Under the broader heading of “Tradition, Change & Innovation”, eLearning Africa is inviting proposals that are linked to the following sub-themes: The Present – Innovation and Learning Under the African Sky; The Past […]
Radio broadcasting is a powerful tool that enables communication to many isolated rural villages and towns in developing countries. For many of these rural communities, radio broadcasts are often the only effective way to solicit important information to a large audience. Most recently in Uganda, community operated educational programmes are being broadcast to remote localities in an effort to reach students that have limited […]
Listen to this podcast recorded live at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN, the largest global eLearning conference for the corporate, academic and public service sectors. From 18:10 to 26:57, we interviewed a delegation from Namibia who are organising eLEarning Africa 2013. Check it out!
In this excerpt from The eLearning Africa 2012 Report, Gaston Donnat Bappa argues that African traditions and cultures, the foundations of the Continent’s development, have been spoiled by five centuries of slavery and colonisation, so that their survival today is threatened by ‘modern’, drifting lifestyles. This leader of a rural community says the ancient, ancestral knowledge of Africa is still alive and the use […]
The eLearning Africa news service is looking for writers for its news portal. Would you like to report on how Africa’s ICT-enhanced learning industry is developing in your area/country/region? Would you like to share an interesting ICT4D project or development that is linked to eLearning Africa 2013’s themes of tradition, change and innovation? Then the eLearning Africa news service would like to hear from […]
