This exciting online workshop led by Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji and Janet Small from the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at University of Cape Town , South Africa continues until 27 June. 

If you’re just joining us then you can view the recording of the live online meeting held on 18 June and access “Developing world MOOCs: a curriculum view of the MOOC landscape ” by the workshop conveners and Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz on the strategic options available to universities. Participation in the forums requires registration to the e/merge Africa website, which can be done for free here.

The workshop will finish with a follow-up online meeting on Friday 27 June from 1-2 pm (SAST/GMT +2) that will tackle issues that have emerged. Participants will be encouraged to consider and articulate the opportunities and concerns for their own institutions presented by MOOCs. Updates about the workshop will be available here, in the e/merge Africa Facebook group and by e-mail to signed up participants.

We would like to announce three exciting upcoming events about Developing World MOOCs (online workshop from 17 June – 27 June), The Web in Africa (online seminar from 18-20 June) and Online Interview Research: Designing, Doing, Teaching (online workshop from 21-27 July).

17-27 June: Developing world MOOCs – A workshop on MOOCs in Africa – Are you curious about MOOCs or already developing or running MOOCs in Africa?  “Developing World MOOCs – a workshop on MOOCs in Africa” is led by Sukaina Walji, Andrew Deacon and Janet Small from the MOOC task team at University of Cape Town, South Africa. The presenters will share a framework for looking at MOOCs as part of a landscape of Higher Education, consider how MOOCs are currently being used by various institutions and discuss how MOOCs and variant MOOC-type courses might influence formal institutional online and blended course design. There will asynchronous discussion from 17-27 June and two online live sessions on Wednesday 18 June Friday 26 June at 1 pm (SAST/GMT +2). Further information is available on our sign up page.

18-20 June: The Web in Africa: Impacting for sustainability? A lot is happening with the web in Africa these years including better access and increased use of web connected devices, but how does the future look for web usage for Africans? These, and other critical issues will be explored in our seminar The Web in Africa: Impacting for sustainability? Dr. Nnenna Nwakanma will convene the seminar in between World Cup matches in Brazil starting with an online live meeting on 18 June. Then we will move into the discussion forums for your input and views. For more information please see our sign up page.

21-27 July: Online Interview Research: Designing, Doing, Teaching – This workshop will  be led by Dr Janet Salmons from Capella University and Vision2Lead. She will will focus on two related areas: designing research studies based on data collected through online interviews and teaching students how to plan and conduct interviews online. Janet will also consider ways to use communication technologies that are readily available for free or at low cost. Resources and sample exercises will be offered that you can adapt for your own classes. During the seminar we will host two live online sessions on Wednesday 23 July and Friday 25th July at 3 pm (SAST/GMT +2) and use asynchronous discussion forums. For more information please see our sign up page.

We will be eLA 14 with an e/merge Africa team of six including Alice Barlow-Zambodla, Regional Co-ordinator for Southern and East Africa, Jerome Terpase Dooga , Regional Co-ordinator for Nigeria and Ghana, Mohamed Ahmed El-bahay from Mansoura University in Egypt, Gabriel Konayuma from the Zambian Ministry of Science, Technology and Vocational Training, Jakob Pedersen, e/merge Africa Project Manager and Tony Carr, e/merge Africa convenor. We’re keen to meet you and will be posting regular reports from Kampala here and in Twitter. You can find us at Stand 27.