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NEPAD parents the E-School Program and is an economic program that aims to bring economic and social development to African nations and ensure 'Africa's Renewal'. [1] The E-School Program began with Demonstration Projects and has developed further yet remains a work in progress in many countries, facing both criticism and support.
More than 1500 schools have computer labs set up through the scheme. Every state and mission secondary school in Zambia has been provided with at least 10 computers through the scheme. The computers are donated free to the schools and two teachers from each recipient school are trained to teach IT as a subject.
Obami – a social and educational learning platform that started in South Africa and has been adopted by more than 30,000 educators in schools across Sub-Saharan Africa. [12] Gifted Mom - a mobile health platform that started in Cameroon and betters the health conditions of women who are pregnant and newborn children in rural communities. [13]
This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning ... JFLAP - Java Formal language and Automata Package;
A prominent international NGO that has been working on multilingual education development on the ground in Africa for over fifty years is SIL, [10] which introduced a mother tongue program called PROPELCA alongside prominent education leaders in Africa. The program was designed to facilitate teaching English and French through instruction in ...
ICALL programs have also been developed in languages such as German, [8] Japanese, [8] Portuguese, [8] Mandarin Chinese, [9] and Arabic. [7] ICALL systems are also contributing to the learning of languages that are not as accessible to learn (due to a lesser amount of language resources), or less commonly learned languages, such as Cree. [3]
The arrival of the personal computer, with the Altair 8800 in 1975, changed the field of software in general, with specific implications for educational software. Whereas users prior to 1975 were dependent upon university or government owned mainframe computers with timesharing, users after this shift could create and use software for computers in homes and schools, computers available for ...
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was a non-profit initiative that operated from 2005 to 2014 with the goal of transforming education for children around the world by creating and distributing educational devices for the developing world, and by creating software and content for those devices.