More than 1200 international education and technology experts, advisers and
investors will gather in Cairo
in May to discuss how to turn the African Union’s vision of a “transformed
continent” into reality. They will look at how developments in technology could
enable education and training to boost growth and transform the lives and
prospects of the next generation of Africans. The programme for the conference,
which is published online today is available at www.elearning-africa.com.
“New opportunities for expanding
education and training are being created across Africa,” says Rebecca
Stromeyer, the founder of eLearning Africa. “Everywhere, in every sector, technology is
transforming the nature of learning, opening it up and creating new opportunities
in both education and training. This is an extraordinarily exciting time for
education everywhere. In Africa, the
opportunity to create a massive transformation in the lives and prospects of
tens of millions of people is enormous.
“The change is already happening.
Technology is helping people to learn new skills and in many sectors, such as
farming, it is beginning to make a huge difference. Technology-assisted
learning has begun to make a significant contribution to economic growth in
many countries. The pace of change is only going to quicken over the next
decade and the effect will be astonishing. We really are going to see a new
Africa, a transformed Africa.
“Education is at the heart of this
change. eLearning Africa this year is all about a vision of Africa’s
future and how we can make it happen. The African Union
has set out its 2063 Vision but how can we turn it into reality? At the
conference, we’ll be looking at what’s going on in both education and
technology and how these developments can contribute to positive change and
growth. It’ll be a very practical conference, featuring hundreds of
presentations, proposals, products and solutions from experts and investors
from all over the world.”
Themes up for discussion at the conference include the workplace skills of the
future; changes in the nature and ownership of learning; improving access and
creating new opportunities for students, teachers and trainers; innovation,
emerging technologies; higher and further education; and the shape of African
education institutions in the future.
