The African Virtual University (AVU) is playing host to a Pan-African conference focused on discussing the importance of ICT in education.
Over 27 African Vice Chancellors from different universities in Africa are attending the conference that started yesterday at Nairobi’s Intercontinental Hotel.
The 4-day conference will chart a path for the 5-year program through the establishment of new distance and eLearning centres while upgrading the existing ones.
AVU Rector, Dr. Bakary Diallo said that one academic challenge facing most African countries is availability of tertiary learning institutions due to limited learning facilities and not the lack of will to attain higher education credentials.
“This should not be the case anymore since there are alternative opportunities through distance and eLearning,” he said.
The African Virtual University is a Pan-African e-learning institution established in 1997 to make long distance learning more accessible to many in the continent.
Using Internet broadband to bring quality education to thousands who cannot afford the contemporary education, AVU has since seen 43,000 students graduate from the institution across Africa.
The AVU “Multinational Project II – Policy Harmonization and Curriculum Conceptualization” workshop, is the first step to the implementation of the African Development Bank (AfDB) funded Multinational Project (II) that aims at helping African countries’ improve their ICT infrastructure and programs, and provide technical assistance on their ICT in education policies and strategies.
