Across the developing world, the reduction of child mortality rates in the last two decades has led to a dramatic increase in the number of school-age children.\u00a0 This growing cohort of children need more and better educational opportunities to engage in a global economy that is increasingly technology-oriented.\u00a0 Yet the way education is currently delivered cannot possibility cope with the population surge.<\/p>\n
Development experts in education estimate that across Africa alone, 64 million additional teachers are needed just to maintain a 45 student per teacher ratio. This outstrips the financial and human resources of almost every government in Africa.\u00a0\u00a0 Consequently, African policymakers are desperately searching for alternate ways to educate the next generation of African society.<\/p>\n
So what might be the needed simple, effective, and affordable educational resources for students, teachers, and parents? Resources that can become tools that radically changes the concept of both “teacher” and “classroom” to accommodate a learning environment where neither is restricted by the formal constructs we have today.<\/p>\n
What is your vision for an African learning environment that transcends the formal educational system to offer multiple learning opportunities to youth via multiple facilitators? And how can the full breadth of information and communication technologies – from the humble radio or newspaper to advanced computers and the Internet – be utilized in that vision in a cost-effective and practical manner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is your vision for an African learning environment that transcends the formal educational system to offer multiple learning opportunities to youth via multiple facilitators? And how can the full breadth of information and communication technologies – from the humble radio or newspaper to advanced computers and the Internet – be utilized in that vision in a cost-effective and practical manner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[7,8,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}