↓ 13th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education & Skills Kigali, Rwanda Sept 26→28 2018 eLearning Africa In Review Sponsors & Partners Hosted by Supported by Organised in collaboration with Under the patronage of Dr. Gerd Müller, German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development The Ministry of The Republic of Rwanda Education Gold sponsors Sponsors Silver Sponsors Partners WildFire Official Carrier ↓ Table of Contents 5 eLEARNING AFRICA KEY FIGURES 7 11TH MINISTERIAL ROUND TABLE 10 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 12 eLEARNING AFRICA PLENARIES → 13 OPENING PLENARY → 14 THURSDAY PLENARY → 15 FRIDAY PLENARY → 16 DEBATE 17 PARALLEL SESSIONS 19 EXHIBITORS 22 WE CONNECT 23 BEST TWEETS ↓ eLearning Africa 3 eLearning Africa ­ The Leading Pan­African Conference and exhibition on ICT for Education, Training and Skills Development on the African Continent → A truly Pan-African event, eLearning → This annual conference and exhibition → The eLearning Africa community Africa is the largest gathering of edu ­ showcases the many initiatives taking is made up of high­level policy cation and training experts and profes­ place on the Continent. These include formulators, decision makers, and sionals on the Continent. Participants large­scale multi­stakeholder projects, practitioners from education, business, attend year after year to meet their university­born initiatives, best­practice and government. The Pan­African fellow practitioners and gain exposure examples, and even small start­ups. conference is hosted by a different to the latest solutions and best practices The gathering supports multinational African government every year and in technology-supported education, and cross­sector collaboration and brings together more than 1,000 training and skills development. eLearning partnerships, whilst attracting invest ment participants from across the world Africa fosters the development and in all levels and all sectors of education, (80% of whom are African). maintenance of multinational and cross­ training, learning, and skills development. industry contacts and partnerships, and enhances participants’ knowledge, abilities and expertise. “Let’s design learning while involving the youth. Let’s connect the past with the future” Elliot Masie, educational technology expert, CEO at MASIE Productions, New York, USA ↓ eLearning Africa 4 w Key Figures of eLearning Africa 2018 WHERE PARTICIPANTS CAME FROM WHERE PARTICIPANTS CAME FROM (BY AFRICAN REGION) 11% Europe CENTRAL AFRICA 53,9% NORTH AFRICA 3% 4,4% 2,8% North Africa 3,5% Asia, Middle East SOUTHERN AFRICA 8,5% The Americas & Australia WESTERN AFRICA 17,8% 78,3% Sub­saharian EASTERN AFRICA 16,8% Africa OCCUPATION OF PARTICIPANTS 42,4% 1050 70 12 PRE­CONFERENCE EDUCATION PARTICIPANTS COUNTRIES WORKSHOPS 24,8% BUSINESS 21 238 60+ 20,5% KEYNOTES SPEAKERS SPEAKERS PARALLEL SESSIONS GOVERNMENT 4,3% NGO 48 478 TIMES THE #ELA18 HASHTAG 2,5% EXHIBITORS WAS TWEETED BETWEEN 26 – 28 SEPTEMBER ASSOCIATIONS ↓ eLearning Africa 5 w 93% 80% rated the relevance and rated the eLearning content of the conference Africa plenary sessions as very good or good as very good or good 82% rated the interactivity of the conference sessions as very good or good “The thing that inspired me most were the different types of people we met from different countries. Learning from them “In these changing times, Africa was absolutely amazing! It contributed cannot simply sit back and watch. “The 13th eLearning Africa conference greatly towards my insight of eLearning We must prepare the African children in Kigali, Rwanda, was a place and how government is playing a and youth for these changes.” saturated with knowledge, learning tremendous role in this process.” Hendrina Doroba, Manager and networking opportunities.” Llewellyn Scholtz, Genesis Community IT Education, Skills and Employment, Wycliffe Omanya, Plan Initiative, South Africa African Development Bank International, Kenya ↓ eLearning Africa 6 ↓ The 11th eLearning Africa Ministerial Round Table For the past eleven years, eLearning Africa has convened the annual Ministerial Round Table (MRT), a high­level, inter­governmental meeting that provides a platform for the discussion of challenges and the exchange of knowledge about leveraging technology for education, training and skills development. → The goal of the meeting is to facilitate → The meeting was comprised of Ministers, open dialogue and generate practical Deputy Ministers, and ministerial high represen ­ recommendations that will have real­world tatives from ministries of Basic and Higher impact on policy drafting and implementation. Education; TVET; Information Technology and Communication; Youth & Sports; Research, → The 11th eLearning Africa Ministerial Round Science and Technology; Public Service and Table in Kigali focused on the theme ‘Towards Labour from 13 countries (Angola, Benin, a Knowledge­Based Economy’. Technology is Burkina Faso, Congo Brazaville, Djibouti, connecting Africa, creating an opportunity Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, for education to transform the Continent Uganda and Rwanda). and prepare Africans for the world’s ‘fourth industrial revolution’. Participants, who → Together with invited guests from international included representatives of both African organisations, all participants considered how governments and international organisations, African countries, businesses and workers discussed possible steps to equip young could take advantage of changes in the global Africans with the skills they need for the economy to secure a competitive advantage. future. The Round Table produced a set of recommendations that Africa could deploy to take advantage of a period of sustained economic growth to transform itself into a modern, data­based, knowledge­led economy. ↓ eLearning Africa 8 The day was divided into three sessions, each 2. → The 2nd Session, entitled ‘How improving Recommendations emerged from the discussion of which produced distinct and innovative quality and expanding access to education, to help Africa to become more united, in order recommendations: training and skills can attract investment to entrench the benefits of continuing economic and create jobs’, considered the advantage growth and strengthen global partnerships. 1. → The Opening Session, ‘How African Africa gains from its increasingly youthful The recommendations also addressed some of countries, businesses and workers can take population. Participants discussed key the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and advantage of rapid change to get ahead questions such as how new opportunities suggested a number of specific actions, which of their competitors’ was devoted to the to access education and training can be will help in making a reality of the African so­called ‘fourth industrial revolution’, spread to people across Africa, and how Union’s vision of a “transformed continent,” as in which change will be rapid and to ensure that the skills young Africans outlined in its 2063 Agenda. unrelenting, worldwide. At the same time, acquire are the right ones for tomorrow’s many African economies have recently jobs and markets. Please refer to the eLearning Africa 2018 experienced a long period of steady Communiqué on our website for further details economic growth. What steps should be about these recommendations. taken now to enable Africa to leapfrog 3. → During the closing panel, ‘A Vision for its competitors? How can rapid change Africa’s Youth: How to turn today’s young Africans into tomorrow’s highly skilled in the global economy work to Africa’s workers’ advantage? , ministers and policy­makers debated the necessary skills in tomorrow’s markets and how to encourage a new education and training culture that has the flexibility required in an era of increasingly rapid technological change. “It was an honour to speak at the eLearning Africa 2018 Ministerial Round Table on the skills needed for the future” Patrick B. Nsenga, CEO at AC Group, Rwanda ↓ eLearning Africa 9 ↓ Pre­conference Workshops The eLearning Africa 2018 Pre­Conference Workshops took place on Wednesday, September 26, and offered 12 half­ and full­day workshops with activities designed to help participants develop practical skills, as well as gain in­depth insights and concrete knowledge on the following subjects: → Interactive Materials Development → SimSchool for Teacher Training and → Improv’ for Everyone – Especially Those Who for eLearning e-Assesment in Rwanda Want to Work with Insanely Great Ensembles → Limited Internet Access? Let’s build our own → Online Facilitation: Unleashing the Passion for → UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for networks. Offline Teaching and Learning in Learning Teachers (ICT-CFT) Portal – A New Online Tool Sub-Saharan Africa → Minding the Skills Gap in Africa with for ICT for Teacher Training → How to Track the Effectiveness of Learning and Microlearning → Gamification and the Power of Play Improve Organisational Impact → Building Standards for the Integration of → Innovations in Humanitarian Learning → Planning Your Institution’s Online Education Technology in Education: Teachers, Students and Training and Administrators → Virtual Reality (VR) Skills Channel “The whole conference provided plenty of networking opportunities. Really useful for getting more insight on the elearning situation in Africa, learning from other’s initiatives and sharing thoughts about the way forward.” Veronika Schaeffler, INASP, UK ↓ eLearning Africa 11 ↓ eLearning Africa Plenaries eLearning Africa