Cartoon by Stacey Stent
What happens next?
The followup to the launch workshop consists of three steps:
1) The participants from eLearning Africa will be invited to choose and develop an online activity for delivery in July as the first activity of the e/merge Africa activities. If you would like to join this process please contact us at [email protected].
2) The e/merge Africa needs and priorities survey and the call for proposals will be released within the next few days and publicised through the Facebook group, twitter announcements and e-mail to all participants in past e/merge and e/merge Africa events.
3) When the results of the survey become available in late June e/merge Africa participants will be invited to form an agenda activist group of 15-20 and we will work together online to develop the e/merge Africa learning agenda for the next year. A series of scheduled activities will start in August 2013 including practitioner and researcher orientated seminars, skill development workshops, short online courses and periodic online conferences.
From the Remeet at eLearning Africa
On Friday 31st May, the last day of eLearning Africa we reconvened as a group of seventeen including three eLearning Africa delegates who hadn’t yet heard of e/merge Africa and joined us out of curiosity. Many of the participants in the truncated launch meeting had already gone home or were committed to other meetings so it was good to have a group were able to continue and deepen the conversation.
We discussed the three questions about attitudes and experiences, skills required for elearning, and suggested topics for e/merge Africa activities. It was interesting to see clear clusterings of technology and pedagogically oriented skills and topics and the need to design entry level activities in relation to various technologies. Perhaps there could be a series of “how to” workshops. Underlying everything there was a question about developing African perspectives in elearning.