Designing and Delivering eLearning

Proper training opportunities for teachers are crucial in any educational system.

What role can eLearning play to help deliver efficient teacher training? At eLearning Africa, the MKFC Stockholm College (Sweden) in cooperation with the National Africa Foundation (Ghana) will introduce an exciting way to provide teacher training in order to help them to support Africa’s next generation. Their approach aims to implement global best practice into the curricula and at the same time to take local needs into account.
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Television is a powerful and effective way to facilitate learning by delivering information that people need and desire. Television engages. It enlarges perspectives, enhances understanding and creates possibilities by connecting viewers to new people, places and experiences. Television can also reach large groups of people at one time and convey information regardless of a viewer’s ability to read. Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership is a non-profit organisation based in Silver Spring, Maryland. In collaboration with local educators in underserved countries around the world, DCGEP harnesses the educational power of television by establishing Learning Centers in existing schools – creating versatile community resources where students, teachers and entire communities can access and share information.
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In the Kenyan Village of Mbita, sixty fifth graders of Point Primary School and their three teachers have helped Eduvision, an eLearning solution company situated in Switzerland, to develop an innovative ICT platform and corresponding software for handheld computers. The company’s applications are mainly designed to deliver curriculum content instead of using “oldish” textbooks to enrich the learning experience and to add locally relevant information more easily. At eLearning Africa 2007, Karim Toledano, CEO of Eduvision, will give closer insights into his African project.
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Digital content for ICT-supported education produced by Africans for Africans is increasingly needed. The Pixel Corps, a guild for digital content creators based in the USA, is offering training and an expert community in a unique and unconventional way. Beate Kleessen from eLA spoke to Alex Lindsay, founder and chief architect of the Pixel Corps, about his activities …
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Nokia is utilizing mobile phones for learning purposes in a multifaceted way. In Africa, the company is bringing down the affordability barrier through its innovative, easy-to-use handsets with features that support phone sharing and coverage extension to rural areas. Nokia terminals also go beyond basic voice and messaging, offering applications for learning and data sharing. At eLearning Africa, Dr. Adel Besrour, Nokia Siemens Networks, Tunisia, will give deeper insights into Nokia’s own eLearning approach.
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