Enabling e-learning environment in Tanzania
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Enabling e-learning environment in
Tanzania
Why this is the right time to speak about e-
learning?
The three most important components...
The Teachers
The Students
The Parents
How do we connect them
together?
32,000,000 The Number of Mobile Subscribers in Tanzania
(TCRA & Reuters)
10,000Km ...that is the coverage of the National ICT
Broadband Backbone to all National HQs.. (Prof. Makame Mbarawa)
...so the infrastructure is there..
....People can be reached..
..and things has been happening...
▧ New platforms for contents delivery... Shule Direct, EduMek
▧ News ways to deliver information to parents Edu-Taarifa▧ News ways to deliver educational contents Ubongo Kids▧ New ways to track schools and check their
performances ShuleWiki & Scholar Dream▧ Reviewing of policies and setting goals...▧ Mobile learning Nokia Momath Project▧ Pilot ICT projects for secondary schools... ▧ … number of platforms for school resources
management...
..small timeline on major e-learning events in Tanzania...
2007
ICT Policyfor basic education.
2011
Coursera & WB e-learning pilot project.
2008
Computer Labs in Public Schools.
2010
ICT In Educational Situational Analysis Report 2010
2013 2009
ICT Teachers Professional Development
TZ-Country Level Knowledge Project CLK.
2014
Nokia Mobile Math Project
...what is missing?....to my understanding..
The System(A set of things working together)
1. The Role of the policy...
The Process (Steps taken to achieve a certain
end)
….On reviewing 2007’S ICT in Education Policy...
What still needs to be done?
Very few Swahili Educational Contents
online....
2. Creating more digital educational contents...
90.7% Of the online presence in Tanzania prefers
Facebook (TCRA 2012 & IppMedia)
What are we doing about
this?
E-Learning Initiatives..
3. Maximizing the synergy...
The Government
….No need to duplicates the efforts...
The Private Sector
This is why...
▧ First, parents are too busy for their kids...▧ Second, we have the infrastructure to do so....▧ Third, we doing it but somehow disorganized...▧ Fourth, when are we going to do it if not now...
“Failure to make a decision is itself a
decision...
How can you get involved?
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