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, [...]
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 [...]
AEL Data partners with e-Taalim, an electronic Magazine specialized in the fields of e-Learning and Blended Learning to bring its global expertise and experience in the Middle East and Africa. e-Taalim has been involved in providing expertise information, latest news, trends and initiatives in the field of eLearning to bridge the digital divide and close [...]
Anyone involved in eLearning will be familiar with the challenge: A new technology is introduced into a school accompanied by a lot of energy and enthusiasm, but over time it doesn’t quite get utilised in the way the proponents anticipated. Understanding the reasons behind this is central to enhancing our effectiveness. In this second article [...]
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 [...]
eLearning Africa is a conference and exhibition organised by ICWE GmbH that focuses on information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development, education and training in Africa. Serving as a pan-African platform, eLearning Africa links a network of decision-makers from governments and administrations with universities, schools, governmental and private training providers, industry and important partners in [...]
The gap between mobile devices and laptops has been shrinking in the last years. Mobiles are getting smarter and offer wider screens while laptops are losing weight and are becoming smaller in size. With the birth of tablet PCs, which are laptops with touch screens, a new era in terms of user experience started. Users [...]
Leader in Increasing Access to More Reliable, Greener IT for African Schools Sponsors Africa’s Premier ICT for Education & Training Event. Berlin, Germany and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Wyse, the global leader in cloud client computing, will be the major sponsor of this year’s eLearning Africa conference and exhibition. The sixth in the series of [...]
We would like to share with you this interesting post from tonybates.ca: What’s in my crystal ball for e-learning in 2011? (For how well I did in my predictions for 2010, see e-learning retrospective – how good were my predictions? 1. Course Redesign We will see increasing efforts at redesigning courses to incorporate both online [...]
Changing schools, universities or the education system as a whole, in order for them to be able to serve their purpose and fulfil their roles in today’s rapidly changing societies, is a highly demanding task. While the Bologna process is leading the transformation of universities, PISA studies denounce gaps at basic education levels. Redefining implies [...]
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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