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The AUF is funding the development of the first MOOCs in higher education in Africa, in partnership with the French Ministry for Higher Education and with the support of UNESCO, and will use this form of remote learning to offer training and certification in ICTE skills for teachers. The African universities are taking a growing interest in ...
ISKME also established OER partnerships in K-12 and higher education with OpenStax, [13] NAACP, [14] the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), [15] UNESCO on their ICT Competency Framework for Teachers, [16] and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). [17]
A 2011 review of higher education in Tanzania found a certain indifference to research and resistance to Domestic expenditure on research in Southern Africa as a percentage of GDP, 2012 or closest year. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 20.3. change in the institutional culture of universities.
The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SEACMEQ) is a consortium of 15 ministries of education in Southern and Eastern Africa that undertakes integrated research and training activities to monitor and evaluate the quality of basic education and generate information decision-makers can use to plan and ...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan addressing the 6th session of the UN ICT Task Force in New York City, March 25, 2004. The United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (UN ICT TF) was a multi-stakeholder initiative associated with the United Nations which is "intended to lend a truly global dimension to the multitude of efforts to bridge the global digital divide, foster ...
The World Declaration on Higher Education was adopted by UNESCO's World Conference on Higher Education on 9 October 1998, [36] with the aim of setting global standards on the ideals and accessibility of higher education. UNESCO's early activities in culture included the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, launched in 1960. [37]
OER Africa is an initiative established by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to play a leading role in driving the development and use of OER across all education sectors on the African continent. [118] The OER4Schools project focusses on the use of Open Educational Resources in teacher education in sub-Saharan Africa.
IFIP was established in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, originally under the name of the International Federation of Information Processing Societies (IFIPS). In preparation, UNESCO had organised the first International Conference on Information Processing, which took place in June 1959 in Paris, and is now considered the first IFIP Congress.