July 31

• Africa: Technology Enhances Learning and Life

  Technology vendors Dell and Microsoft have been working to deliver classroom technology for remote regions and, in particular, into schools that have not previously had access to... Read more »

July 25

• Africa: "Don't Be Afraid to Fail" [interview]

  An Interview with Darlyne Komukama, Founder of Shakai Media Read more »

July 19

• Africa: Elearning and Knowledge Management in an African University Context [analysis]

  As the world moves gradually into the knowledge-based society predicted by Peter Drucker in the early 1970s, one of the challenges for developing countries in Africa, Asia and... Read more »

July 18

• Africa: OERs and MOOCs - Old Wine in New Skins?

  There has been a growing buzz about the concepts of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how they will transform education around the world.... Read more »

July 17

• Africa: "No Country Can Make Progress On the Basis of a Borrowed Language" [opinion]

  Professor Kwesi Kwaa Prah is the founder of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), a civil society, Pan-African organisation which focuses on African... Read more »

July 16

• Kenya: Comics for Peace - Shujaaz and the Kenyan Elections

  On March 4, 2013, Kenya successfully and peacefully held a historic election, the first one after the inauguration of the ambitious democracy-protecting Constitution of Kenya 2010. Read more »

July 12

• Africa: How Technologies Can Help With Investing in Girls Education

  Because of the many educational barriers faced by a typical girl child in Africa, it seems that promoting girl child education using technology in Africa is currently more of a... Read more »

July 11

• Kenya: Security, Investment and Learning

  Some months before he was elected President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the Africa Forum on Business and Security, an annual conference of business leaders... Read more »

July 10

• Africa: New Models of Management Education for Africa

  During the last decade a team of researchers interviewed executives in thousands of firms in twenty countries, including hospitals and schools, about the quality of management in... Read more »

July 09

• Ethiopia: "Entrepreneurship Isn't About Easy Money" [interview]

  A number of African pioneers and entrepreneurs have ventured towards establishing technology start-up companies and innovation hubs. The eLearning Africa Report interviews Markos... Read more »

July 04

• Africa: Harnessing TV White Spaces for Learning [opinion]

  What constitutes good connectivity? The answers to this question seem to be related to personal experience: dial-up users think that every other option is great, whereas ADSL users... Read more »

July 03

• Africa: Seeds 2.0 to Modernise and Boost the Agricultural Sector

  "Really? But what has the agricultural sector got to do with Web 2.0?" That was the sarcastic question I was asked one day when I was describing the Web 2.0 training that I provide... Read more »

June 25

• Africa: African Vision

  When we were building Teachers Media's strategy for Africa, I decided that we should attend the Conference of Ministers of Education of the African Union (COMEDAF) in Abuja,... Read more »

June 14

• Africa: Managing a Critical Situation

  "In rural South Africa, a man arrived at the local hospital with the classic symptoms of heart failure. All that was needed to confirm the diagnosis, and decide upon an appropriate... Read more »

• Africa: It All Adds Up - Mobile Learning and Numeracy Educations [opinion]

  According to the Education for All (EFA) goals, all children should achieve 'recognised and measurable learning outcomes... especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life... Read more »

• Africa: 'eLearning Africa Has Torch-Lit the ICT & Innovation Capability in Me' [opinion]

  eLearning Africa brings together 1,500 education and training professionals from all over the Continent and across all sectors. Every participant has their own story to tell of how... Read more »

• Africa: African Libraries in the Digital Age - "Reaching Outside Their Walls"

  "I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library", mused the Argentine writer Jorge Louis Borges in 1960. Now, fifty years later, most of us are more likely to turn to the... Read more »

June 11

• Africa: The Elearning Africa Debate 2013 - an Invocation to Innovation

  As the 8th edition of eLearning Africa drew to a close on Friday evening, delegates gathered together for one last time for a spirited show of wit, cunning and intellectual... Read more »

May 27

• Africa: Dr Eric Hamilton - the "Sublime, Engrossing" Experience of Video [interview]

  Dr Eric Hamilton is a Professor of Education with Joint Appointment in Mathematics at Pepperdine University, California. His education research has taken him across the globe: he... Read more »

May 24

• Africa: The Union At 50 [press release]

  The 50th anniversary of the African Union - May 25th - marks an opportunity to celebrate half a century of Pan-African ideas. The Union, formerly the Organisation for African Unity... Read more »

May 23

• Africa: Bringing Learning to Life - Making Video Work for You [interview]

  eLearning Africa 2013 will be hosting a series of video-themed sessions in Windhoek this year. Increasingly video is becoming a must-have element in learning resources. We spoke to... Read more »

May 16

• Kenya: A Spider Story - How a Study Circle Becomes an Agent of Change [press release]

  Let us begin by telling a story from a fishermen's study circle in Kenya. CORDIO (Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean East Africa) is an organization based... Read more »

• Africa: Giz - Creating Opportunities for Peer Learning and Knowledge Exchange

  Technology Innovation Hubs Read more »

May 10

• Africa: The Potential of Elearning for Health

  IMPACtt trials in Tanzania Read more »

May 08

• Namibia: ICT in the Classroom - Namibian Teachers Share Their Experience [press release]

  Education has been a top priority in Namibia for some time now. The government has been directing a lot of resources and expertise into establishing effective systems and policies... Read more »