On Friday, November 8, 2013 3:21:46 PM UTC+1, Gary Lyon wrote: > 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 LearningCoursera - Free College-level > Courses from "Ivy-League" SchoolsEdX - A collaboration between Harvard and > MITKahn AcademySchool of OpenOERu - Open Education Resource > universityFree-ed.net - Free Education on the InternetOpen Courseware > ConsortiumPeer-2-Peer University - Learning by everyone, for everyone, about > almost anything, completely free.University of Albany - Online Training in > Public HealthEmpire State Public Health Training > CenterCoursesites.comWikiversityVisual Literacy: An E-Learning Tutorial on > Visualization for CommunicationFree Professional Development Courses from > LattitudeUFree Video Lectures by Prominent ResearcherseXtension, a national > collaborative initiative of the Cooperative Extension System.Alison - Free > online courses and certificationsUdacity - Free university-level coursesTop > 50 Open Courseware CollectionDigitalGov University On-Demand TrainingList of > Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC) from top universities and other > sourcesCanvas - Open Online Learning NetworkWorld Education Portals > (WEPs)Saylor.org - Free college-level coursesDigital Public Library of America > 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?
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