Type of Resource:
Journal Article

Year of Publication:
2017

Indicators:
- Enablers
- Challenges


Themes:
- Digital Literacy And Skills
- Internet Access, Affordability And Use

Author(s): Benedict OYO, Billy Mathias KALEMA and John BYABAZAIRE

In recent times, computers and internet have penetrated secondary schools in Africa but with greater attention to students' computer literacy than teachers. At the same time, previous studies on digital literacy of teachers are unsustainable and mainly skewed on pre-service teachers than in-service teachers. These realities point to the need to investigate and implement effective and sustainable initiatives for improving digital literacy and online life-long learning for in-service teachers in Africa. This paper therefore presents a specialised MOOC platform known as TEP (Teachers' E-learning Portal) for digital literacy and online life-long learning for in-service teachers in Uganda. TEP is built for environments with inadequate access to computers, internet and technical assistance. As such, TEP is accessible online or offline, managed by accredited local universities in collaboration with beneficiary secondary schools, and runs on existing resources in schools (technical personnel, computers and internet).

URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379350?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=internet&searchText=use&searchText=in&searchText=africa&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fpagemark%3DcGFnZU1hcms9MTA%253D%26amp%3BsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bsd%3D2013%26amp%3Bed%3D2019%26amp%3BQuery%3Dinternet%2Buse%2Bin%2Bafrica%26amp%3Brefreqid%3Dsearch%253A4dd55b0fc59aaadd71527c79674f695d&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A3d415dcf8e9d14218caadea8970f96bc&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Region of Study:
West Africa,

Country of Study:
Uganda,

Study Quality
High