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Berlin (GER)/Dakar (SN), May 2009 - Taking place from May 27th – 29th in
Dakar, the eLearning Africa conference is THE event in the field of
ICT-supported learning and training! Over one thousand registered
participants and speakers are looking forward to this year’s conference.
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| Training Action |
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The Africa Mundus Project |
 London (UK), May 2009 – AFRICA MUNDUS is a programme to support
professional and entrepreneurial training and skills in Africa within the
framework of the Commission for Africa, the Millennium Development Goals,
ODA (Official Development Assistance), and the Recommendations to the G8
Summit 2006 in favour of the education sector. An effort to create a
network, the programme will be presented by Prof. Emmanuel Argo at the
eLearning Africa Conference in Dakar.
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| Gender Aspects |
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Human Rights in Educational Frameworks |
 Sohag
(EG), May 2009 - HDEA is a Human Development and Education Association in
Upper Egypt. Its work is focused on developing the education frameworks in
Upper Egypt and incorporating human rights in educational frameworks.
Shaima Aly is the Gender and Education program manager in the Association
and has been working with this NGO for more than nine years. She will
present her activities at eLearning Africa 2009 in the section "ICTs –
Widening the Gender Gap or Improving Chances for Women?".
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| Key roles |
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Ways Cell Phones Can Be Used to Enhance Learning |
 Guelph (CA), May 2009 -
Currently, cell phones are being used to assist instructors and students
in scheduling their tasks and appointments. Over the past few years,
however, research efforts have been aimed at enabling students to access
course material from their cell phones. Qusay Mahmoud from The Centre for
Mobile Education and Research believes this is a very limited vision of
mobile learning. At eLearning Africa 2009 he will discuss why.
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| Content Creation |
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Incorporating East African Cultural Markers |
Nairobi (KN), May 2009 – Leonard M. Mengo lectures Software Engineering at
JKUAT, the University of Agriculture and Technology in Kenya. He is also
undertaking PhD research at the School of Computing and Technology of the
University of Sunderland (UK). His talk centers on multimedia learning
materials that are especially designed to match the cultural preferences
of the Kenyan target users.
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| Workshops |
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EFQUEL at eLearning Africa 2009 |
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Bruessels (BE)/ Bonn (GER), May 2009 – EFQUEL, the European Foundation for
Quality in eLearning in co-operation with Germany’s inWEnt will be holding
three workshops on "Certification of eLearning in Capacity Building" at the
eLearning Africa Conference 2009 in Dakar, Senegal.
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| Survey |
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How Students Develop Relationships Online |
 Lagos (NG), May 2009 – "Virtual Construction of Social Reality through
the Internet and its Applications among Nigerian University Students" is
the title of the contribution of Dr. Blessing Adeoye at eLearning Africa
2009 in Dakar. In advance of the event, he has been kind enough to provide
CHECK.point eLearning with insight into the student situation in
Nigeria and the results of his investigations.
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| Proof of Concept |
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TATCOT: Spinal Orthotics by Blended Learning |
 Vienna (AU), May 2009 - (by Arndt Bubenzer) Since
2008, TATCOT, the Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopedic Technologists in
Moshi, has been offering a substantial continuing- education eLearning
course program on "Spinal Orthotics" for orthopedic technicians across
Africa. The development of the program has been supported by the Health
Division of InWEnt, Capacity Building International in Bonn, Germany.
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| Bridge the Gap |
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The eLearning Consortium in the North Rift |
Nairobi (KE), May 2009 - (by Mathew Kituu) The eLearning Consortium
is an offshoot of education initiatives of the SNV Netherlands Development
Organization in Kenya. It is a group of private and public schools,
teachers, individuals, ICT service providers, and NGOs who have
congregated themselves around the issue of eLearning and use of ICT in
schools and the community at large in the North Rift, Kenya.
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| To Inspire People |
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Creating a Tolerant and Understanding Global Society |
Auckland (NZ), May 2009 – (by Richard Rowland) The One World
Foundation was set up with the aim of bringing the cultures of the world
closer together, especially for young people. The mission statement says
that it seeks to create an infectious desire to learn more about other
cultures and lifestyles among the people of the world and to allow them to
help each other in this learning process.
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