AFRICA DISTANCE LEARNING RESEARCH

List of distance learning sites:

AfricanEducational Research Network

African Universities and the Internet: The Challenge of Networking

The Politics of Ditstance Learning in Africa

Universities providing distance learning about Africa:

Virtual College - New York University
Provides all courses on-line. No campus. One set of courses is on African studies.

Related sites within the Virtual College are:

Global Programs
Discusses the breadth of NYU's global program.

African Program
Addresses NYU's African studies program specifically.

Other African links

Members
Forty-seven additional universities are listed.

University of Pennsylvania

Africa:Population Studies

University of South Africa
Univ. of South Africa is one of the larges distance teaching universities in the world.
(This according to the U.S. South Africa Embassy.) Currently, their server is not accessible.

Educational case study

Southern Africa Field Program

Technikon SA
A tertiary, distance education-only institution that has some 80 000 students. We have a website at http://www.tsa.ac.za which students can use for registration, querying almost anything about their studies and much more.

Telisa
An initiative which aims to provide ICT Centres as access points to learners and business, as well as additional content and server support to Africa. The first of these is under development in Maseru, Lesotho. Others are planned for Namibia and South Africa.

Organizations providing or researching distance learning in Africa:

World Bank

African Virtual University
This is the concept paper about an African Virtual University.
Chapter 3 addresses the problems affecting higher education sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Chapter 4 describes the trends in information technology and their potential for
higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Priorities and Strategy for Education
A selection from a World Bank Review. Information for development Programs
Homepage for infoDev which is a program within the World Bank. Provides grants for the innovative use
of communication and information technologies.

Africa Online

Provides various services to African groups and countries. Technical to information host to information resource. Some specific services are: home pages for African countries, on-line reference materials, travel information, and kids educational section.

International Development Research Center (IDRC)

Search: distance learning

Bellanet

South African Embassy

Teachers and Students
Information about South Africa for teachers and students. A reference guide.