Allison Bingham's List: global E-learning

Learning management system that is being used by some nonprofits in LDC's - worth looking at for LDC elearning or blended learning solutions.

This paper presents the difficulties, which the students and the teachers are faced with in the distance learning process. We will begin by presenting the technical and the administrative difficulty concerning the student. In the second part we present the technical and conceptual constraints that a teacher have to take into account in the distance learning process.

Very interesting "counter" to the growing trend of e-learning in developing countries.

This article takes a brief, sober look at Distance Learning in the context of developing countries. For those who view education as the most important priority for the world’s poorest countries, Distance Learning is perhaps the most significant method for accomplishing a miraculous, leapfrogging transformation. Are courses administered at distance expensive compared to "traditional" ones? What is the cost per student for an on-line MBA, versus one taught face to face with an instructor?

Traditional education has shifted towards new methods of teaching and learning through the proliferation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The continuous advances in technology enable the realisation of a more distributed structure of knowledge transfer. This becomes critically important for developing countries that lack the resources and infrastructure for implementing cutting-edge education practices. The two main themes of technology in education for developing countries focus either on aspects of technological support for traditional methods and localised processes, or on the investigation of how such technologies may assist distance learning. Commonly such efforts are threefold, relating to content delivery, assessment and provision of feedback. This paper focuses on issues regarding the implementation of e-learning in developing countries and particularly those aspects of Computer-Aided Assessment (CAA) that could be tailored to satisfy the needs of a limited educational infrastructure. The primary contribution of this paper is a proposed methodology for supporting both formative and summative CAA.

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