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Accessible learning on the agenda for eLearning Africa 2007 delegates

By Debbie Carter (16-11-2006)
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Experts from around the world are due to meet in Kenya next year to discuss how e-learning can be used to make learning and development accessible to all Africans.
L&D practitioners from Asia, the Americas and Europe will join African colleagues, as well as the continent’s top policy makers and industry leaders, at the second international conference on ICT for development, education and training, due to be held in Nairobi in May.

The focus of the conference is on ‘building infrastructures and capacities to reach out to the whole of Africa’, reflecting the efforts of African countries to create regional and national technological infrastructures that will give everyone access to education, training and development. The conference will review the challenges, achievements and future strategies for establishing schemes that encompass countries across Africa.

There will also be an African Summit for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, highlighting the importance of the vocational sector in mass education in developing countries.

The conference will include lectures in Kenyan universities, addressing fundamental e-learning issues as well as research and development topics in technology-enhanced education and training, plus two break-out workshops, one in Mombassa and one in Kisumu.

The workshops will look at the needs of rural areas and regional institutions.
Organised by ICWE GmbH and Hoffmann&Reif (Germany) and held under the patronage of the Kenyan minister for education, science and technology, Dr Noah Wekesa, the conference aims to establish a network of decision-makers from governments, university and school administrators, public and private training providers, industry and developmental partners.

The first eLearning Africa conference, held last May in Ethiopia, attacted more than 830 participants from 80 countries. About 70 per cent of the participants were African which, say the organisers, ‘shows the vital interest in e-learning on the continent’.

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