SAP Africa Code Week, Africa's biggest digital skills initiative, is celebrating a successful 2020 program that included a switch to all-virtual teaching, the launch of a smartphone app, a continent-wide coding competition and a host of online Train-the-Trainer sessions aimed at empowering teachers with critical digital teaching skills.
Read moreDigital Skills
-
ADEA, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 20:47ADEA, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 20:41
Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that left an estimated 250 million primary and secondary school learners across Africa not attending school, the all-virtual 2020 SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) has celebrated a successful year with students and teachers engaged in coding and digital skills learning across Africa
Read moreLeaving no one behind by fostering Digital Technical and Vocational Education and Training in AfricaADEA, Monday, December 21, 2020 - 22:14How can people acquire the skills needed to digitize work to take on new tasks? What must TVET strategies look like to bring technology closer to learners, teachers and managers? These and other questions were discussed on November 26 during the online colloquium on DTVET co-organized by ADEA and Festo Didactic.
Read moreADEA, Friday, March 22, 2019 - 15:05As the African continent prepares for a period of profound change, with the launch of a drive to create a common free trade area, increasing exposure to global markets and technological innovation affecting every sector, this year’s eLearning Africa will ask some fundamental questions.
Read moreADEA, Friday, December 21, 2018 - 13:41A key challenge in the African continent is the lack of skills. This critical factor has been affecting the growth of companies in a negative way. When companies lack access to skilled labor, their opportunities for growth is severely hindered.
Read more
ADEA, Friday, June 2, 2023 - 00:52The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the education sector leading to school closures for more than two years in some countries. This resulted in learning loss that impacted education outcomes, especially in Africa. Governments in Africa took immediate responsive actions to remedy the impact of school closures by introducing policy and program changes to education delivery, articulating multi-sectoral national response plans that included remote learning to ensure learning continuity.
Read more
ADEA, Friday, June 2, 2023 - 00:51This study, commissioned by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), aims to assess the status and capacities of 34 African member countries of the IsDB and AfDB on the use of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) in education and remote learning during the crisis and the required investment in digital transformation. Anchoring the process will be the review of the state of preparation of the study countries in support of ICT use in education.
Read more
ADEA is hosted by the African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
