Parnerships with Virtual Environments

to improve quality education…..

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Keith Maree

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part·ner·ship ( pärt n r-sh p )

A relationship between individuals or groups that is characterized by mutual cooperation and responsibility, as for the achievement of a specified goal

"effective language learningis a partnership between school, teacher and student”

every day we all experience partnerships, with our spouses, with our work colleagues and with technology.

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• Provision of access to education.

• The quality of that education.

• The provision of scarce resources and information that enable that education.

Multi faceted challenges in the delivery of quality

education.

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ICT for transformation Create Access

FET - Remedial Interventions

Massive Capacity Increase

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Right now we need to think of partnerships

where we create alternative environments that support

• the FET colleges and the Universities

• the skills development aspirations of all those not in employment, education & training

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A partnership is also an environment

• we interact with people• with learning objects• with information• with technology

We create that environment, as educators you create those environments

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How do we create – we surround ourselves

• with stimuli• with human achievement• with history• with the things that drive us and make us human and stimulate our minds and our imagination

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Combine technology and human interaction/communication

Organise & present information

Implicitly & inherently social

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Amazing ideas

Imagination

Create Environments

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General access to the internet is not available in Africa ?

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Medium-term target of delivering broadband to 80% of African citizens by 2020. – Minister of Communications Dina Pule

• Millennium Development Goals. • Closing the skills gap within African countries

S.A. Digital TV migrationsubsidised set-top boxes – 20 million more people will have an Internet connection

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Computer Literacy

The Youth & Technology

Mobile Phones

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