According to their website:
"eLearning Africa's innovative conference programme brings together over 300 speakers and chairpersons from 50 countries. Highlights include pre-conference workshops, plenary sessions featuring internationally acknowledged eLearning experts, networking opportunities and a wide variety of session formats.
Under the overall theme of tradition, change and innovation, eLearning Africa 2013 will examine the experiences, projects, investments, policies, partnerships and research that are shaping the Continent's learning landscape."
Along with a few displays of African culture and entertainment, the conference aims to cover many topics including but not limited to tablets, mobiles, and MOOCs (massively open online courses). Another key issue at the conference is just how much governments should be focused on education and the innovation thereof when they face so many other pressing issues. The conference actually comes to close with a debate on that very topic.
The conference attracts many attendees from across the world and is sponsored by global business leaders in electronics and education like Dell, Microsoft, Wyse, and E-Course. Last year participant numbers were down from the previous two years from around 1700 to around 1500. However, organizers expect the 2013 Conference to be a huge success and the number of participants to be up from last year's number.
What's the cost of attending an event like this, you ask? Well, for African students it costs around $195 (€ 150 ), and for African nationals it costs around $470 (€ 360). But for anyone from outside the African continent it'll set you back about $900 (€ 690), and that's not including travel fees and the cost of dining while you're there. So it's definitely not for the casual person interested in eLearning.
Check out the video below for a glimpse of what happened at eLearning Africa 2012.
Sources:
http://www.elearning-africa.com/index.php
http://www.elearningnews.net/view_event.php?event_id=143
eLearning is spreading along the nation gradually. All in all, e-learning is an innovative tool that can provide quality, convenience and cost effective training and education for anyone wishing to further advance their knowledge, skills, and proficiency. These tools can be applied to a variety of given fields, helping Europe move towards a truly knowledge-based society.
ReplyDeleteMustafa Alaswad
E-Learning is "cool," ! There are reasons for e-Learning, which are cost, time ,place, reference. And equally there are benefits for instructor led training. As we see better e-Learning content, organizational development professionals need to be careful to select the most appropriate learning styles. Personally, I dont have any E-training experience, I would have one in the further!
ReplyDeleteWenyi Chen
This is a great example of how e-learning can be positively implemented. E-learning is positive when the students do not have the resources necessary to attend to a physical class. The issue with e-learning is that sometimes people have the resources, including time, necessary to be able to attend to a physical class but they choose to take an e-learning class because they are lazy and/or want the option of having someone else take the class for them. There are several good articles and videos online regarding “diploma mill institutions”, which include institutions such as University of Phoenix and several other e-learning related institutions.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Ospina