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Distance Learning In the Developing World

By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo — April 02, 2009 1 min read
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Sean Cavanagh, my colleague over at Curriculum Matters, beat me to this story about a conference to help spread education throughout Africa with techology.

“Next month, an effort to improve students’ access to education in the developing world will be taking place in Dakar, Senegal. It’s a conference run by an organization called eLearning Africa, which supports the use and distribution of basic technologies in schools across the continent. The event seeks to bring together nonprofit leaders, university officials, and IT experts with the expertise and connections to get school technology where it’s needed.”

Sean reports that the eLearning Africa web site has a lot of background and info on last year’s event. And there’s a fundraising effort going on to give more educators throughout Africa the chance to attend.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Digital Education blog.

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