Educaid.be International Conference 2024
Session D | Innovative Digital Education: Case Studies on Skills, Infrastructure, and Access
15:00-16:00 (Brussels time)
Due to the humanitarian situation, the Humanity & Inclusion team in Lebanon is unable to present during this session. As a result, MSF Academy will replace HI and join Session C instead of Session D. Thank you for understanding.
Three organisations will share inspiring educational projects implemented across various countries in this session. Enabel takes us to Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Palestine to showcase the different educational pathways they have been supporting to strengthen digital skills. Afrodidact highlights its efforts in The Gambia, focusing on integrating ICT into primary schools. Finally, the MSF Academy introduces its innovative approaches to digital learning at the hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic. These projects aim to enhance digital skills, improve infrastructure, and address connectivity challenges in remote areas. From Enabel’s digital skills support adapted to the local context to Afrodidact’s lessons learnt and MSF Academy’s creative use of digital tools, these presentations provide valuable insights into the future of digital education and skills.
PROGRAMME
CASE 1 | Multiple education pathways to strengthen digital skills
Enabel will share the different educational pathways they have been adopting to strengthen different types of digital skills. The first presentation will focus on Enabel’s work on the integration of digital skills in teacher training in Uganda.
In Palestine, Enabel aims to develop young people into active and critical citizens, by supporting the acquisition of STEAM and 21st century skills, including digital skills, through the organisation of broader extra-curricular STEAM activities.
Digital skills are not only important for digital education and digital citizenship, but also for employment. Most jobs today require some level of general or sector specific digital skills. Enabel has therefore been supporting digital skills training for entrepreneurship and employment to make sure that all workers can make the most out of digital technologies for their professional activities (Uganda and Burkina Faso)
CASE 2 | Lessons learned from 7 years of implementing IT in Gambian primary schools
In this session, the non-profit association Afrodidact will share experiences and insights from seven years of deploying computer infrastructure and software in Gambian primary schools through the KUBO digital project.
CASE 3 | Using Beekee hub to provide access to eLearning in Bangui hospital
In February 2024, the MSF Academy for Healthcare conducted a pilot test of a tool called the Beekee Hub at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Communautaire (CHUC) in Bangui, Central African Republic. Access to Internet in this hospital is insufficient to allow the nursing staff enrolled in the MSF Academy learning programme to access the eLearning. During this practical session we will share our reflections, some challenges and feedback from the learners.
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