Peter, I am thrilled to read your post. There are many factors that I believe will transform Africa; mobile internet access and open education two of the greatest. I think the challenge is awakening the public to the opportunities education can make possible and having a government that sees value in and takes concrete action to enable the population to create a new future, economically, socially, etc. Africa in general has been plagued with so many terrible leaders that have withheld opportunity from the people it is understandable many may think there is no possibility of a better future. Open access to the internet and education can plant the seeds of hope and possibilities...the ability to learn and connect with others is no longer controlled by others or dolled out only in classrooms...the classroom is now the world through your mobile phone or computer. I will be visiting Africa next year and am excited to learn more about what is happening there...Africa is on the verge of it's own "Africa Spring". Here is my personal list of 'open education' resources that you may find useful and want to share; I am sure there are many more others can add:
- Rice University "Connexions" Open Learning <http://cnx.org/> - Coursera - Free College-level Courses from "Ivy-League" Schools<https://www.coursera.org/> - EdX - A collaboration between Harvard and MIT <https://www.edx.org/> - Kahn Academy <http://www.khanacademy.org/> - School of Open <https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/> - OERu - Open Education Resource university<http://wikieducator.org/Oeru> - Free-ed.net - Free Education on the Internet<http://free-ed.net/free-ed/> - Open Courseware Consortium <http://www.ocwconsortium.org/> - Peer-2-Peer University - Learning by everyone, for everyone, about almost anything, completely free. <https://p2pu.org/en/> - University of Albany - Online Training in Public Health<http://www.albany.edu/sph/cphce/online_learning.shtml> - Empire State Public Health Training Center<http://www.empirestatephtc.org/learning/pages/catalog/> - Coursesites.com<https://www.coursesites.com/webapps/Bb-sites-course-creation-BBLEARN/pages/mooccatalog.html> - Wikiversity <http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page> - Visual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on Visualization for Communication <http://www.visual-literacy.org/> - Free Professional Development Courses from LattitudeU<http://www.latitudeu.com/> - Free Video Lectures by Prominent Researchers<http://videolectures.net/> - eXtension <http://campus.extension.org/>, a national collaborative initiative of the Cooperative Extension System<http://www.nifa.usda.gov/Extension/> . - Alison - Free online courses and certifications <http://alison.com/> - Udacity - Free university-level courses<http://www.udacity.com/courses> - <http://www.udacity.com/courses> <http://www.udacity.com/courses>Top 50 Open Courseware Collection<http://onlineuniversityrankings2010.com/2010/open-edu-top-50-university-open-courseware-collections/> - DigitalGov University On-Demand Training<http://www.howto.gov/training/on-demand> - <http://www.howto.gov/training/on-demand>List of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC) from top universities and other sources<http://www.mooc-list.com/> - Canvas - Open Online Learning Network<https://www.canvas.net/?gclid=CM2chfjml7QCFYp_QgodrGcAlg> - World Education Portals (WEPs <https://myweps.com/moodle23/?redirect=0> ) - Saylor.org - Free college-level courses <http://www.saylor.org/> - Digital Public Library of America <http://dp.la/> Peace On Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:58:38 AM UTC-7, PETER NDERO wrote: > > > My country Kenya has just woken up to the fact that digitized eduction is > must. > this are time of great expectations in the entire education system. what > is your experience? > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
