AllAfrica.com

Africa: Distance Learning Changes Lives, but Comes With Its Own Challenges

Across Africa, distance education has become one of the most powerful forces for expanding access to higher learning. Open and distance learning institutions such as the Open University of Tanzania, ...
World Bank

Distance Learning as a Solution for Education in Africa in the COVID-19 Context Roundtable

At the worst of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, more than 1.5 billion children were in need of online schooling, with more than 90% of the world’s enrolled students forced out of school. Extended ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation

Spurred by COVID-19, African schools innovate to close learning gap

DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG, Oct 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In rural Sierra Leone, teenagers tuned into solar-powered radios for their lessons, while Kenyan students texted a code to receive free ...
The Conversation

Multimedia is key to distance education: I built a model South African universities can use

Acting Deputy Director in the Directorate: Academy Applied Technology and Innovation (AATI) under Information Communications Technology Department, University of South Africa Distance education first ...
The Conversation

Distance learning changes lives, but comes with its own challenges

Ashley Gunter receives funding from, The Arts and Humanities Research Council UK, British Academy UK, National Research Foundation, Newton Fund UK. Across Africa, distance education has become one of ...
Bizcommunity

Distance learning changes lives, but comes with its own challenges

These institutions are reimagining what it means to go to university in contexts where geography, cost and social responsibilities often keep young people out of the classroom. The value of distance ...