The AVU Capacity
Enhancement Program (ACEP)
PRESS
RELEASE – February 15, 2008
The
African Virtual University is proud to announce the
launch of the first ever AVU Capacity Enhancement Program
(ACEP). The ACEP was designed to provide comprehensive,
high quality training in the following fields of Open
Distance and e-Learning (ODeL):
1.
Material Development;
2. Delivery and Technology; and
3. Governance, Management and Funding.
The
first series of workshops are scheduled for 11th
to 15th of February 2008 for Anglophone and
Lusophone Universities, and 25th to 29 February
2008 for Francophone ones. Both workshops will
be held at Hotel Faidherbe in Dakar, Senegal.
These first workshops are crucial because they will
provide 133 participants with a detailed
introduction to the program and its delivery methodology
and provide guidance towards designing participants’
institutional projects and case studies. The AVU will
provide all the necessary tools to facilitate participant’s
work throughout the program. The 133 participants
are from 24 universities located in
17 African countries as detailed below:
|
Country |
Institution |
| |
Anglophone
& Lusophone |
|
1 |
Somalia |
East African
University
SIMAD
Puntland State University
Mogadishu University
Burao University |
2 |
Somaliland |
University
of Hargeisia
Amoud University |
3 |
Ethiopia |
Jimma University |
4 |
Uganda |
Kyambogo University |
5 |
Tanzania |
Open University
of Tanzania |
6 |
Mozambique |
Universidade
Pedagogica |
7 |
Kenya |
University
of Nairobi |
8 |
Zambia |
University
of Zambia |
9 |
Zimbabwe |
University
of Zimbabwe |
| |
Francophone |
|
10 |
Madagascar |
Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Antananarivo |
11 |
Niger |
Université
Abdou Moumouni |
12 |
Benin |
Université
Abomey Calavi |
13 |
Senegal |
Université
Cheick Anta diop
Université Gaston Berger |
14 |
Mali |
Université
de Bamako |
15 |
Cameroun |
Université
de Douala |
16 |
Mauritania |
Université
de Nouakchott |
17 |
Burkina Faso |
Université
d’Ouagadougou |
18 |
Burundi |
Université
Lumière de Bujumbura |
The goal of the ACEP is to build, within
each of the AVU partner institutions, a team of experts
who will be able to promote, guide and facilitate the
development, delivery and management of ODeL programs.
The AVU believes the success of the program can only
be achieved if the ACEP is institutionalized, not as
a peripheral activity but as one derived from the overall
educational strategy of the institution. In this way,
the impact will be more beneficial to the institution.
ACEP is designed in a way that blends it with already
developed and ongoing projects and therefore creates
synergies in transforming residential programs into
ODeL programs. Teams from each institution will have
an opportunity to make use of the skills they will acquire
in order to develop ODeL practices at their institutions,
particularly in organizing internal Training of Trainers
(TOT) sessions, to actualize the ACEP strategy.
The ACEP will be implemented in three
phases: a first series of workshops, a professional
development program and a final series of workshops
to present the results of case studies and remediate
possible training issues. Participants will be tutored,
throughout the program by carefully selected and world
renowned consultants drawn from the Association of Universities
and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), in conjunction with Memorial
University of Newfoundland and the University of Ottawa.
The team of experts will also provide support during
the course of the professional development program,
and the accreditation of the post-degree certificate
in Open, Distance and eLearning.
The ACEP is supported by the African
Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Development
Fund (UNDP) Somalia.
For more information regarding the ACEP
please contact, Nicolas Rippon, ACEP Component Manager
at nrippon@avu.org or contact@avu.org or visit our Website
at www.avu.org.
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