"Africa and what business schools can do" was a post I wrote on the 30th May. Maybe I have found something that might help? An idea that might take advantage of the increased number of Internet connections that the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initative will create.
eLearning Africa 2006, with 832 participants from 80 countries, was the first eLearning
Africa conference held on May 24 – 26, 2006 in the United Nations
Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was the largest event on
educational technologies and development ever to have taken place on the
continent.
Is this an opportunity for us business schools - or the private companies out there- to contribute using experience and expertise? Please, this time, add your comments to the blog instead of emailing them.
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It´s no easy to link a business school with an iniciative like "One Laptop per Child", but business school can help, showing the way to fix educational standards, evaluation systems, and e-learning technology.
Posted by: Fernando Jiménez | Thursday, 22 June 2006 at 09:18 PM
I am more than sure European Business schools would give a booste to the business practice in Africa.
1- Empower african teachers within update knowledge and greater access to usefull comparative information would leverage their ability to teach better...
2- Teachers should be able to follow continious training courses to improve also their knowledge, within the formal commitment to stay teaching in their current school in Africa.
Posted by: Brice | Friday, 14 July 2006 at 06:11 AM