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| Pan-African Conference |
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Inclusive Education a Priority for Ministers' Meeting in Zambia |
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Berlin (GER)/ Lusaka (ZM), May 2010 - Zambia's capital will host a
gathering of some of Africa's top educational decision-makers on May 26th
at eLearning Africa. The largest pan-African conference on Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) for development, education and training
will be held from May 26th - 28th in Lusaka.
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| Use of Cell Phones |
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Linking Mobile Learning to the Student-Centered Approach |
 Pretoria (ZA), May 2010 -
Dr Mpine Makoe is Senior Lecturer in Open & Distance Learning at the
University of South Africa (UNISA). At eLearning Africa 2010, she will
deliver a talk entitled "Identifying Competencies Needed for Using Cell
Phones for Facilitating Teaching and Learning in Distance Education". She
has kindly shared her profound experience in an interview with
CHECK.point eLearning.
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| Immediately Usable |
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A Tool to Facilitate the Management of Web Content |
 Kumasi (GH), May 2010 –
At Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, three
highly competent staff members have developed a new Open Source Content
Management System called KAN. Robert Kabutey Okine, Francis Adu-Gyamfi,
and John Serbe Marfo are responsible for this achievement and will
demonstrate it at eLearning Africa. In the following interview, they have
been kind enough to explain to CHECK.point eLearning what’s new in
KAN.
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| Capacity Development |
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The World Bank Institute Provides "In-Service Training" |
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Washington DC (US), May 2010 - The mission of the World Bank Institute
(WBI) includes enhancing institutional capacity in developing countries,
with a focus on core sectors such as education, health, urban management,
etc. Sheila Jagannathan and Michelle Duvall Kalinski, Course Coordinators
at the Institute, will present the ongoing efforts in the education sector
at eLearning Africa 2010.
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| Obstacles to overcome |
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Mobile Solar Classrooms in Rural Uganda |
 Kampala (UG), May 2010 - Three solar
panels, a battery, ten folding chairs, five tables, fifteen Intel-powered
Classmate PCs and two teachers in a small van: This is the basic
"equipment" of the Mobile Solar Computer Classroom (MSCC). It has been en
route through rural Uganda for two years now with the purpose of teaching
pupils and teachers IT and computer skills.
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| Case study |
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Powerful Mobile Devices Continue to Contribute to Education |
 London (UK), May 2010 - How can mobile phones add
real value to students’ learning experience? The varied components needed
to ensure an appropriate educational design will be discussed at eLearning
Africa 2010. Niall Winters from London Knowledge Lab will present a case
study from Zanzibar: Veterinary Training with Mobile Phones.
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| Educational Experience |
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Using KEWL and Other Open Source Tools to Train Future Teachers |
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Johannesburg (ZA), May 2010 - Claudette Ann Muller’s presentation at
eLearning Africa 2010 will provide a detailed look at the delivery of a
course entitled Online Teaching and Learning. It is part of the program
for Bachelor of Education Honors students at the University of the
Witwatersrand in South Africa and addresses issues related to teaching in
an online environment within an online environment. In the following,
Claudette Muller outlines her talk.
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| Capacity Building |
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Ajegunle – Where ICT Enriches the Poor |
 Lagos (NG), May 2010 - Two Nigerian teenagers had never touched a
computer keyboard before they joined a learning programme known as the
Ajegunle.org Capacity Building Exercise. Nwanyiego Ijeh, a girl known as
Ego, and a young man, James O. Raphael, lived and worked in Ajegunle, a
dangerous part of Lagos, populated by three million people from all the
tribes of West Africa.
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| ICT in Education |
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Embracing All Facets of ICT Deployment in Africa |
 Nairobi (KE), May 2010 - In his role as Africa Regional
Director for the Global eSchools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI), Alex
Twinomugisha helps to empower African countries to develop strategies for
the proper use of ICT in education to promote their overall development.
In the following interview, Nairobi-based Twinomugisha talks about the
challenges his organisation has to overcome when deploying ICT in Africa
and what effect technology continues to have on the Continent.
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