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Derginin Adı:
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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Cilt:
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2013/14
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Sayı:
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2
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Makale Başlık:
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A NOVEL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: Case Study of the Pan African e-Network Project
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Makale Alternatif Dilde Başlık:
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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2.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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The constructivist form of learning creates such an environment where the learners are
not only active but they become actors’ i.e members and contributors of the social and
information space without taking into consideration the geographic boundaries. Such
an innovative form of distance education was initiated in India in the year 2007 and it
was meant to be offered as cross-border tele-education to the states of the African
Union. The objective was two-fold: first to benefit the disadvantaged African learners
who missed out opportunities to attend regular universities and earn degrees or seek
employment. Secondly it was to promote the educational service of India under the
umbrella of GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services) which was operational
since 1996. Initiatives were taken by the Government of India and the African Union
to boost the usage of the available resources in IT, medical sciences etc. for the growth
of the people of the African countries so that they could compete with the rest of the
world. African learners can access higher education with the usage of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) which is considered to be the demand of the coming
generation. The tele-education concept employs sophisticated technology, state of the
art studio and the best of the class facility. The mode of this tele-education is made
feasible through a virtual platform where education is imparted through a two way
audio and two way video communications spreading over multiple countries of Africa in
a single session.
This paper is in attempt to describe this innovative form of virtual education and look
into its impact on the African learning community. The general feedback is that the
students have been greatly benefitted and the demand for such form of education has
also increased multi fold with the students’ enrolment having increased manifold,
especially for the management programme.
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