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ecbp
launches first eLearning
localization project
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ADDIS
ABABA(July 5 - 6, 2008)
- Universities all over Ethiopia will, as of the next academic year,
become beneficiaries of ecbp-supported new eLearning localization
project.
The project will make 47 courses in Civil Engineering and Electrical
Engineering available in all Ethiopian Universities, according to
a press statement from the Engineering Capacity Building Program (ecbp)
The statement said that a training workshop was underway this week
for instructors of four universities- Jimma, Mekelle, Bhair Dar and
Addis Ababa-so they could develop the eLearning courses for the rest
of the universities to utilize.
Ecbp said the project was the first in Ethiopia that blended courses,
a mixture between face to face and using computers and internet, and
used in such large numbers.
A German-Ethiopian research team has selected the courseware for the
eLearning program after positive results were seen, said the statement.
The courses for Civil and Electrical Engineering can be covered largely
by preexisting open source software, it added..
"eLearning will bring a great deal to the Universities,"
ecbp said in the statement.
"One of the most important things that this will do is free up
instructors' time so as to alleviate the shortage of teaching staff
in universities which only stands to get shorter as the number of
students increase at high rates,” ecbp said.
In addition to training the instructors in the development of eLearning
courses, ecbp is assisting them in the formation of an eLearining
network so that all the universities can work together and cooperate
on the necessary components of courses and ensure that all relevant
material is included, said the statement.
eLearning is a part of ecbp's University Reform Component which aims
to strengthen the university system in Ethiopia.
ecbp is an Ethiopian program established under the Ministry of Capacity
Building, and works towards creating employment opportunities for
students through reform of University's faculties of technology, TVET
reform, improved infrastructure of Ethiopian products to be competitive
in the world market and strengthening the private sector which ecbp
considerers to be the engine of development.
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