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Conference Programme / Programme de conférence

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Please click on the coloured boxes to get a detailed description of the sessions.
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Sessions entirely coloured in orange have simultaneous French/English/Swahili translation /
Les sessions totalement colorées en orange seront traduites simultanément en français, en anglais et en swahili.

 

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Speakers in Alphabetical Order

 

Session Codes & Themes

A1. Traditional Pedagogy Versus 21st Century Pedagogy
A2. The Meaning of Lifelong Learning, Skill and Competency Development and Employability in 21st Century Labour Markets
A3. Institutional Learning
A5. eLearning Research, Knowledge Sharing, Learning Through Practice and Continuous Monitoring and Evaluation
A6. Skills, Skill Development and Employability
B1. Policies on ICTs in Education
B2. Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
C1. New Innovations
C2. Mobile Learning
C3. Technology Choices
C4. Open Source Solutions
C5. Affordable Bandwidth


D1. The Schools Sector
D2. Parents, Youth and Children
D3. Universities and HEIs
D9. eLearning in the Agricultural Sector
D10. Cyber-Security and Safe Digital Environments
D12. Corporate Sector and Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
E2. Requisite Skills and Competencies Among Teachers
E3. Life and Labour Market Skills and Competencies
E4. Affording Socially Excluded Young People Access to Quality Learning Opportunities
F1. New Trends in Digital Education Content
F2. Open Education Resources (OER) Movement

Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 11:30 - 13:30

01C2 – Mobile Learning Success Stories in the Health Sector: How Replicable and Scalable?

02E2 – Stories About Developing the ICT Competencies of African Teachers

03A1 – Research Stream: What is Meant by 21st Century Pedagogy: A Closer Look at Theory and Practice

04E3 – Strategies for Entrepreneurship and Employable Skills Development

Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 11:30 - 13:00

05C1 – Using Cloud Computing Technologies to Provide Greater ICT Access

06C4 – Affordable Bandwidth Options for Rural and Disadvantaged African Communities

07F2 – Under Which Conditions Can ICT Access Support African Farmers and Rural Communities to Learn?

08B1 – Making Math and Science Cool, Fun and Interesting

09A3 – Improving Cooperation in Crisis Response Operations

10F2 – Developing and Using OERs in Africa: Lessons Learned from the African Virtual University (AVU)

11E4 – Wazup? Youth Voices on Life, Love and eLearning

Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 14:30 - 16:00

12D1 – A Critical Gaze at Technology Access and Collaborative Learning Models in African Schools

13D2 – Family Literacy, eBook Clubs and Learning with Grandma

14D2 – Research Stream: African Youth and Digital Identity

15E3 – Enabling African Youth to Find Their Own Voice

16C3 – Which Content Management System? What Content? How User-Friendly Are Online Platforms?

Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 14:30 - 16:00

17A3 – Enhancing Leadership Capacity in ICT in Education

18F2 – When and Where Technologies Enable Literacy and Language Development

19E3 – How OpenCourseWare Supports Tertiary Education and Economic Development

20A2 – eLearning and the Future of Africa’s Health Sector

21D2 – An Opportunity to Meet Professor Sugata Mitra

22A5 – Sharing Experiences of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Education

Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 16:45 - 18:15

23C2 – Outside in the Open

24A2 – Current Practice in Educational and Administrative Integration of ICTs in African Schools

25A1 – Research Stream: Collaborative Learning: Experiences, Tools and Resource Management

26D1 – Learning and Teaching Math and Science

27C1 – Web4Dev: At the Cross-Section of Innovation, Collaboration and Knowledge Managment

Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 16:45 - 18:15

28D3 – Institutional eLearning Policies and Strategies for Higher Education

29A3 – Open and Distance Learning (ODL), Methodologies and Resources

30E3 – What Contribution Can eLearning Make Towards Confronting the Skills Challenge of Africa’s Health Sector?

31C1 – Meeting the Education Resources Challenge in Africa

32C5 – The Educational Benefits and Cost Advantages of Open Source Tools

33A5 – UMOJAS: Exchanging Knowledge on Projects: Old, New and In-the-Making

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 11:30 - 13:30

34C3 – ICT Access Models and Cloud Computing: Affordable, Sustainable and Appropriate for African Education?

35E2 – The African Experience with Web 2.0 Integration in Classroom Practice

36D1 – Research Stream: The Role of ICTs in Marginalised Schooling Contexts

37A1 – National ICT4E Policy Planning and Implementation

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 11:30 - 13:00

38C3 – Improving the Quality of Healthcare Delivery Through eLearning: The Case of ICATT

39D12 – How Skills Training, or the Lack Thereof, Influences Corporate Performance

40F2 – Towards Improved OER Practice

41B2 – Scaling Up Capacity Building across Regional Boundaries: Effective Leveraging of Technology and Partnerships

42C1 – African and Asian Experiences With ICT Integration in Teacher Development

43E3 – Combatting the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

44D2 – My eLA: What Do You Really Think of eLearning Africa? Come and Tell Us

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 14:30 - 16:00

45C2 – Can Mobile Technologies Support Our Challenge to Extend Education Access, Quality and Equity?

46D1 – Factors Influencing the Educational Use of ICTs by Teachers and Learners in Schools

47E3 – Revolutionising Healthcare Delivery in Africa

48D9 – University Collaboration: Opportunities to Share Education Resources and Expertise or Reinforcing Competition?

49D10 – The Application of Technology Supported Learning to Address Environmental Challenges

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 14:30 - 16:00

50E4 – How Blogging and Technology Camps Can Empower People at Risk, Women and Girls

51C1 – The Potential of Online Tutoring and Innovative Learning Practice

52A6 – The Role of TVET in Skills Development in the Formal and Informal Economies of Africa

53A5 – Growing Innovation Seeds Through eLearning in Universities in Africa

54C5 – Affordable Bandwidth Solutions and Their Advantages for Economic Growth

55C3 – Practical Demonstrations and Examples of Good Practice (14:30 - 17:30)

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 16:30 - 17:30

56E4 – Employing People with Disabilities: How ICTs Can Help

57D3 – Educational Delivery and Design in Higher Education

58A5 – Nurturing Young Entrepreneurs in Africa

59C1 – The Role of ICT in the Personal Development, Growth and Education of Francophone African Youth

60F1 – Developing and Using Online Education Content

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 16:30 - 17:30

61A6 – Strategies to Enhance Student Motivation and Career Awareness

62E2 – How African Teachers Integrate Technologies in Their Teaching Practice

63D1 – Alternative Energy Solutions to Power Education Delivery in Africa

64A3 – Free Educational Resources, Teacher Development and the Use of Technologies in Schools

65D12 – Talent Management, eLearning Perceptions and Challenges in the Corporate Sector

66C3 – Practical Demonstrations and Examples of Good Practice (14:30 - 17:30)

Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 16:45 - 18:15

Umoja01 – Success Factors: Starting eLearning (Distance Learning) in an African Tertiary Institution

Umoja02 – Les epaces commautaires de promotion des savoirs au niveau local

Umoja03 – Pamoja kwa Vijana: Brainstorming Session with SPIDER

Umoja04 – Horizon Project: Africa

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 14:30 - 17:30

DEM01 – Graphogame: Learning Game and Research Environment for Literacy Skills

DEM02 – Learner Support for College Students Through Moodle

DEM04 – Dynamic Virtual Learning System for Visual Communicators: Photography, Publication Design and Video

DEM05 – Learning Content Development System (LCDS)

DEM06 – CAST (Computer Assisted Statistics Textbooks) and GenStat

DEM07 – Demonstrating ePortfolio Affordances & How They Can Be Used for Reflective Learning

DEM08 – Exploring Geogebra as a Pedagogical Tool: Explore Through the Hands, the Mind and the Heart

DEM09 – Embarquons pour destination Delf: Préparations à distance aux certifications en français langue étrangère

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 / 18:00 - 19:30

Plenary A – Opening Plenary

Michael Trucano, Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist, The World Bank, USA
Innovative Uses of ICTs in Education from Around the World

Lieut. Gen. Karlheinz Viereck, Deputy Chief of Staff, Joint Force Training, NATO
NATO's Global Training Architecture

Mark Jordan, General Manager and Vice President EMEA, Wyse Technology, UK
Plus Ultra in Education: No One Left Behind!

Emanuel Feruzi, Managing Director, Tri Labs Limited, Tanzania
Live, Learn and Share

His Excellency Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal, Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania

Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 08:30 - 10:30

Plenary B – Plenary Session

Hon. Dr Shukuru Jumanne Kawambwa (MP), Minister for Education and Vocational Training, Tanzania

Rev Emmanuel Kingsley Dadebo, Co-ordinator, ICT in Education Programmes, Ghana Ministry of Education/Country Coordinator, The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE), Ghana
The Reality of Virtualized Computing: How the Ghana Ministry of Education Accomplishes ICT Goals using NComputing Virtual Desktops

Jenerali Ulimwengu, Journalist and publisher, political commentator and active member of civil society, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
What We Learn, How We Learn It and for What?

MacDaniel A. Powell, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Director Department of Information Technology, Liberia

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 08:30 - 10:30

Plenary C – Plenary Session


Frannie Léautier,
Executive Secretary, The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), Zimbabwe
Unleashing Innovation and Learning for Capacity Development


Jim Adams,
Regional Vice President, East Asia and Pacific Region, The World Bank, USA
Open Development: Opportunities for eLearning


Erik Gregory,
Alliance Programs at Pearson Foundation, UK
Bridgeit: Using Mobile Devices to Bring Rich Media Content to Underserved Classrooms


TIGA Award Ceremony
As part of the Plenary Session on Friday, May 27th during this year’s eLearning Africa conference, the Technology in Government in Africa (TIGA) Awards will celebrate the award of the education category as part of the African Governments’ commitment to e-Government to ensure digital interaction with their public, known as government to citizens (G2C), government to business (G2B) and government agencies (G2G). The TIGA awards are supported by the Government of Finland.

Friday, May 27, 2011 / 17:45 - 19:15

Plenary D – The eLearning Africa Debate


Panelists will include:

Catherine Ngugi
OER Africa, Kenya

Rory McGreal
UNESCO/COL Chair in OER, Associate Vice President Research, Athabasca University, Canada


Bakary Diallo
Rector, The African Virtual University (AVU), Kenya

Larry Cooperman
Director, OpenCourseWare, University of California – Irvine, USA
Sponsor Platine
WYSE
Sponsor d'Or
Microsoft
Partenaire
AADLC
Parrainage de la Participation Africaine 2011
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