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Final Report and Executive Summary: Education
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Final Report and Executive Summary: Education

by Team - 06 December 2011

[The education team wishes to point out that an early draft of its final report was previously erroneously posted by on this site by site managers, rather than the actual final draft. This early draft was wrongly described as the 'complete study and executive summary' and may have been downloaded as such from late September to early December 2011. It has now been replaced by the correct final report.

Landscape Analysis: Education

by Team - 06 December 2011

Chapter 1 has provided an overview of the context of education in Africa, together with a conceptual framework and review of critical issues concerning the integration of ICT in education. This second chapter provides analysis in greater depth of the landscape of ICT in education. The analysis is organised around five themes that were defined in the terms of reference for the study, with links made as appropriate between these five areas to highlight the connections between them.

Opportunities and Challenges: Education

by Team - 06 December 2011
Photo: Trevor Samson/The World Bank

Chapter 2 of this report has described the broad landscape of ICT in education, both globally and within Africa, with a specific focus on the five themes identified in the terms of reference for this report. This chapter narrows this focus in order to identify a number of significant opportunities

Country Case Studies: Education

by Team - 06 December 2011

Chapter 3 has reviewed the most important opportunities that African countries should consider as part of their strategies for the effective integration of ICT into education. These were grouped under the following five headings:

Conclusions and Recommendations: Education

by Team - 06 December 2011

This final chapter of the report presents both general and specific recommendations for policy makers and regulators in African countries, and for development partners. These are based on the analysis of the current landscape of ICT in education set out in Chapter 2, which focuses on the five thematic areas identified for exploration in the terms of reference for the study; the discussion of opportunities and challenges which can be found in Chapter 3; the country case studies described in Chapter 4; and the suggested guidelines which have been put forward in Chapter 5.

African Virtual University: Building the ICT Capacity of African Universities

by Team 06 September 2011
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The African Virtual University (AVU) launched between 2009 and 2010 a total of 10 new Open Distance and eLearning (ODeL) Centers in 10 Partner Institutions situated in 10 African countries.

The purpose of these centers is to act as hubs for the creation, organization and sharing of knowledge as well as development, delivery and management of ODeL Programs at AVU partner institutions. Theses centers have joined the network of partner Institutions of AVU.

Teacher Professional Development

by Team 26 August 2011
Photo Ami Vitale - World Bank

By Robert Hawkins, Sr. Education Specialist (World Bank)

The World Bank and the African Development Bank, with the support of the African Union are collaborating on the development of a report on how information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially mobile phones, have the potential to change fundamental business and government models in 8 sectors for Africa.

Interview with Bakary Diallo on ICTs and Higher Education in Africa

by Team 10 August 2011
Bakary Diallo-2

eTransform Africa Team: Hello, Bakary Diallo from the African Virtual University. You have participated three days in the workshop now and I'd be very interested to hear your feedback, especially about the study on the education sector.

Providing Professional Development to Academics: The Makerere E-Learning Experience

by Team 26 July 2011
makere

Crossposted from edutechdebate.org

Introduction

Technology has been a key driver to educational innovation in a number of Higher Educational Institutions. Makerere University in Uganda has been at the forefront of providing and implementing Online Learning through various initiatives it has undertaken since 1998. This mode of education was first introduced by the World Bank, through its African Virtual University (AVU) project, that worked with Makerere as a Partner Institution. The experiences and lessons have enabled the University adapt to the changes within its context.

Country Workshop Education - Uganda, 23 June 2011

by Team - 20 June 2011

The Ministry of Education of Uganda will be hosting a stakeholders’ workshop on Thursday 23rd June 2011 at Hotel Triangle in Kampala. Invited participants will explore opportunities, challenges and gaps in advancing ICT within the education agenda. Registration is as 8am.

The workshop is part of the activities contributing towards the Transformation Ready study on how ICTs have the potential to change fundamental business models in key sectors for Africa. The World Bank Group and the African Development Bank, with the support of the African Union, are funding the study.

Welcome to eTransform Africa.

This site is a cooperation between the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the African Union to research on information and communication technologies (ICTs) in different sectors of the African economy.


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Progress and Overview

Sector: Education

Team: ICT Development Associates

Progress
Inception Report - Done
Landscape Analysis
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Country Case Studies
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Opportunities & Challenges
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Recommendations
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SECTOR COMMENTS

Mike Trucano

Some quick additional comments on the landscape analysis document, in case they might be useful

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Tusu

Dear Alex and Team,

Thank you for these useful comments. I can confirm that some of the

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Alex Twinomugisha

Hello study team,
thanks for the really comprehensive report. I run the report by my

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