eLearning Africa
Education Podcasts
Our brand-new podcast series hosted by Rob Vember brings together eLearning Africa's experts with our community of African education, training and technology professionals to discuss issues affecting learning and training across Africa today. We've developed this series from the ground to help sector professionals respond to a time of exceptional change. Listen out for fresh perspectives, new solutions and advice from digital learning and ICT experts and leading practitioners on the challenges faced by African education and training professionals. Get to know the stories, experiences and motivators behind these leading voices.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
Our brand-new podcast series hosted by Rob Vember brings together eLearning Africa's experts with our community of African education, training and technology professionals to discuss issues affecting learning and training across Africa today. We've developed this series from the ground to help sector professionals respond to a time of exceptional change. Listen out for fresh perspectives, new solutions and advice from digital learning and ICT experts and leading practitioners on the challenges faced by African education and training professionals. Get to know the stories, experiences and motivators behind these leading voices.
Language:
English
Episodes
Mark West
7/19/2022
Join us for the latest eLearning Africa Podcast - In Conversation with Mark West. Chatting with Rob Vember, Mark provides a sobering assessment of how the world has fared regarding education during the Covid-19 pandemic. Describing it as a story of “exclusion, heightened inequities, diminished learning, and diminished educational experiences”. West acknowledges the need to look at how educational technologies can improve learning and efficiencies but emphasises the fundamental need for...
Duration:00:47:31
Sozinho Matsinhe
10/12/2021
In Conversation with Professor Sozinho Francisco Matsinhe. Chatting with Rob Vember, Sozinho argues the challenge now that Africa has been liberated is to liberate the minds of its people, arguing we should see languages as an asset, not as a liability of any kind.
He calls for linguistic equity and talks about his efforts towards achieving that goal by making “if possible”, possible, during his tenure as Executive Secretary of the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN), the official...
Duration:00:50:08
Barbara Moser-Mercer
8/23/2021
In Conversation with Barbara Moser-Mercer, professor emerita and founder of InZone, a programme of the University of Geneva which pioneers innovative approaches to higher education in communities affected by conflict and humanitarian crisis. Moser-Mercer is visiting professor at University of Nairobi, engaged in strengthening African solutions that advance higher education in emergencies (HEiE) and currently coordinating the launch phase of the African Higher Education in Emergencies Network...
Duration:01:01:19
Aida Opoku-Mensah
5/19/2021
In Conversation with Aida Opoku-Mensah, who recently retired from a two decade long career with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Chatting with Rob Vember, the former Chief of Staff to the Executive Secretary & Special Advisor on SDGs shared her views on the evolution of ICT in Africa over the last 20 years and shares her thoughts on what’s to come. She explains why we’re going to miss the 2030 SDGs deadline and how COVID has exacerbated our challenges in many of the focal...
Duration:00:47:49
Michael Onyango
4/11/2021
In Conversation with Hon Michael Onyango, Thought Leader on Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Chatting to Rob Vember, Onyango talks about the influence of his upbringing on his drive to care for Africa’s forgotten bottom millions and why the work needs to start ‘now’. Onyango shares his views on Africa’s infrastructure gap, explains why he thinks the current education system is setup for the industrial age, and motivates for stackable...
Duration:01:09:18