Next year's eLearning Africa, the Continent's leading conference on ICT for development, education and training, will take place in Cotonou, Benin, from May 23rd to 25th, 2012, under the patronage of the Republic of Benin. eLearning Africa is the key networking event for developing eLearning capacities in Africa, and the call for papers is now open...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Accra, Oct. 18, GNA – A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) seeking to increase collaboration and networking among university leaders, managers and academics across African has been signed in Accra on Tuesday.It was signed by the Open Educational Resources (OER) Africa, and Association of African Universities (AAU) to help improve curricula and promote access to better quality and more affordable educational materials....
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Mobile usage has been increasing in Africa. With so much of competition & declining ARPU, operators are forced into new ways of holding on to their customers. Churn continues to be a challenge, especially dealing with customers who carry multiple SIM cards. It is important today for operators to be proactive; not reactive. One of [...]
Friday, July 15, 2011
The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) approved a USD 23.4 million (Unit of Account 15 million) loan to finance The Alternative Learning and Skills Development Project Phase II (ALSDP II), in Tanzania. The project will directly target some 117,000 unemployed youth in the Unguja [...]
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The eLearning Africa 2011 conference highlighted the worldwide phenomenon of distance learning by mobile phone. There are more than 500 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa now, up from 246 million in 2008, according to industry estimates. Presenting his paper on “New Technologies in Restricted Environment”, Gerald Henzinger, a lecturer at the Catholic University of [...]
Friday, June 17, 2011
Experts on Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Africa have challenged African universities and other learning institutions to adopt Web 2.0 technologies and use social media for teaching. At eLearning Africa 2011, they agreed that institutions can reduce running costs, mobilise learning resources and expand research capacity with social media. The experts presented papers in a [...]
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The second leg of the long-awaited 2011 Technology in Government Awards (TIGA) in the ‘ICT in Education’ category were celebrated at a high-profile event and ceremony, Friday morning. Over 1,400 participants from about 80 countries are attending the eLearning Africa, 6th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, at the Mlimani City Conference Centre, [...]
Monday, May 30, 2011
African countries are increasingly engaging in the development of ICT-based solutions for education and training, according to Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal, Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania. Opening Africa’s leading conference on ICT-supported education, eLearning Africa, in Dar es Salaam on May 25, Dr Bilal said, “We are now witnessing increasing investments in [...]
Monday, May 23, 2011
One of the hot topics at eLearning Africa this year is certain to be the educational implications of the rise of social media. There will undoubtedly be a great deal of ideas, innovation and speculation regarding the future of the sector. If you want to combine this energy with some substantive analysis regarding the social [...]
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
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