African higher education has witnessed phenomenal enrollment growth in the last decade--and this trend is expected to continue well into the future owing to the continent's youth bulge. In this "massifying" system, the academic profession faces a paradox: as the academic profession at the senior level is aging it is also concurrently…

Africa is known for inadequate access to all sorts of human needs including health, education, food, shelter, transport, security, and energy. Before the emergence of massive open online courses (MOOCs), open access to higher education (HE) was exclusive of Africa. However, as a generally affordable method of post-secondary education delivery,…

Recent years have seen an explosion in the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs), which have come to play an increasingly important role in multiple aspects of daily lives. There is an unprecedented expansion of the information available online and existing in an ever more interconnected world; however, this change has been so…

This article explores the politics of literacy in late colonial Sudan. Drawing upon hitherto untapped archival sources in English and Arabic, it focuses on two key questions: What were the purposes and uses of literacy in the eyes of colonial authorities? What means were used to spread literacy skills among Sudanese people? Positioning these…

The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation sponsored seminars on "The Use of Correspondence Instruction in Adult Education: Means, Methods, and Possibilities" in April-May 1967 and May-June 1968. Each seminar was about a month in length; on both occasions the participants came from African countries and represented ministries, universities, and…

A variety of instructional methods for preservice amd in-service teacher education, including those utilized by the Church Missionary Society, are described and evaluated. (LH)

DISCUSSIONS AT THE SECOND CONFERENCE OF THE ADULT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA CONCENTRATED ON PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH. THE BASIC TECHNIQUES OF PROGRAMING WERE OUTLINED AND CURRENT TRENDS OF THOUGHT IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION WERE DISCUSSED. THE CONFEREES EXAMINED THE FIELDS WHERE RESEARCH…

"Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges" explores the issues educators, administrators, and instructional designers face when transferring knowledge and skills to other cultures through e-learning. Most e-learning courses have been designed in Western cultures, but the largest and fastest-growing consumer groups live in Eastern…

The Department of Extra-Mural Studies of Makerere University College, Uganda, experimented with developing correspondence courses in several subjects which were published in the weekly newspaper "The People" during 1967. Three 30-week courses (Communication, Elements of Government, and Economics) were included in a special supplement to…

Based on two seminars on correspondence study, held by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (Uppsala, Sweden) during 1967-1968, this volume consists of lectures delivered at these seminars, together with a selection of essays produced by the participants. The first section reviews the relationship between adult education and economic development,…

The proceedings of a nation-wide conference in Nigeria concerning adult education are presented. The following steps are proposed in the line of national and international cooperation; these steps can be taken without waiting for financial and administrative approval: (1) the registration of all kinds of adult education programs and activities…

This book examines literacy for sustainable development in the age of information. It begins by discussing the relationship between literacy and hegemony, social policy, national language policy, colonial relations, and postcolonial realities. Also discussed in the introduction are views and definitions of literacy and considerations in mapping a…