MOOCs Africa - Sharing Knowledge and Pooling Competencies in Technical & Higher Education - Dr Dimitrios Noukakis - EPFL
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MOOCs Africa - Sharing Knowledge and Pooling Competencies in Technical & Higher Education Dr Dimitrios Noukakis
A vision in 2012 …
Offer higher education courses of the highest quality to all students of Africa
thanks to MOOCs, in partnership with local universities and social partners.
3 strategic partners : Leveraging on international
networks :
Partners committed to promote accessible education for all
Discussion points • Can Massive Open Online Courses • How to foster an innovative (MOOCs) offer world class higher culture within university education to millions in the campuses and address barriers developing world and equip such as resistance from teachers, students with market-relevant limited bandwidth or insufficient skills? tuning with the local economies? • Can MOOCs penetrate global educational markets and help to better match skills with market demand?
MOOCS4Africa Overview
Rationale
Program Objectives Key initiatives:
1. Form an alliance of North and South • Production of quality and relevant
academic partners to accompany the MOOCs
digital transition of higher education • MOOCs Integration in academic
programs : Training of instructors,
2. Improve the level of training of African Advisory & Advocacy
students in STEM as to raise their • Support in developing specific
employability continuous training programs
MOOCs4AFRICA Overview
Implementation storyline
2013 - 2016 : Program Co-creation & Exploratory phase
• A unique PPP for higher education accessible to all
• Exploration of different types of partnerships and collaborations
• MOOCs production, Training
• Program assesment from external consultant
2016 - 2018 : Program Strategic review & Consolidation phase
• Local institutions progressively taking ownership
• 3 main regional hubs: Yamoussoukro, Dakar, Abidjan
• « Train the trainer » module development
• Strategic review from external consultant and program consolidation
2019 - 2022 : 4-year strategic plan & Scaling up phase
• RESCIF presidency transferred to South (INP-HB, Yamoussoukro)
• Communication and regional advocacy development
• Implementation of 2019-2022 strategic plan
A unique private-public partnership !
Total des contributions reçues 2013-2018 : CHF 6'601'325
DDC - 27.3%
Fondation EPFL - 34.2%
Wilsdorf - 3.8%
Recettes A.
Fondations Rothschild - diverses - Hoffma
nn -
15.1% 2.9% 1.5% Fondation EPFL+ - 15.1%
Thematic breakdown of the funds
Répartition de l'ensemble des fonds par secteur d'activité
8 3
Accompagnement pédagogique
des enseignants du Sud - 10.9%
Connectivité des
Formation des
campus & Formation
Gestion et développement du professeurs/enseign développements
continue et
programme, Coordination des ants des institutions technologiques - professionnelle
africaines - 12.3% 4.7% - 3.3%
projets - 26.2%
Frais de
déplacem
ent,
Mandats
réunions,
Communic externes Administ conférenc Production des MOOCs de Production des
(y.c.
ation - évaluations) ration - es, etc. - l'EPFL d'intérêt direct pour MOOCs collaboratifs
4.9% - 4.5% 4.3% 4.3% M4A - 13.7% du RESCIF - 10.8%MOOCs4Africa Rationale Outputs & Outcomes Outoputs & Outcomes • 22 engineering schools, 14 from Africa • 200 000 students and professionals • 150 teachers trained • 3 500 certificates obtained • 48 MOOCs produced and incorporated • Increased South-South into curricula (14 collaboratives, 2 collaborations for MOOCs South/South) production & Training & Advocacy • 2 fully-online curricula • 2 MOOC production Studios
MOOCs for Africa (and the developing world)
What have we learned so far with MOOCs for Africa:
1. Excellent dissemination medium of world-class academic
knowledge to (very) large numbers of learners.
2. Internet access is increasingly less of a problem.
3. Easy and fast transfer of updated job-skills, especially to
accompany the digital transition of local economies.
4. Perfect tool for continuing education of working adults.So, what’s next ?
MOOCs at the global educational market MOOC-based online education programs are already making a big impact in education related to the skills needed to accompany the digital transition of our societies. ØMicro- and nano-degrees delivered by the international platforms Coursera and edX. ØOpen Classrooms at the French-market ØTraining professionals to the digital job-skills needed.
The organization of teaching through times
• Early universities: walk-in libraries giving access to
rare handwritten books and manuscripts
• Early distant education: printed or digital content
(text) coupled with asynchronous communication
by post mail or e-mail
• Contemporary universities: campus-based,
providing meeting and lecture spaces for
synchronous interactions between students and
teachers.
• Contemporary distant education: ubiquitous
access to unlimited digital content coupled with
synchronous communication via the InternetNew partnerships for Higher Education 1/2
New educational paradigms call for new paths to support HighEd in
developing countries!
Philanthropist, Governments and DFI need to rethink their models
• Scholarships:
⁃ New ways to find talents & select scholars
⁃ From study-abroad schemes à To enroll in online or hybrid programs
A $50 certificate from a global platform may be too expensive !!!
⁃ Large scale up potential across a regionNew partnerships for Higher Education 2/2
• NextGen of Higher Education institutions:
⁃ Less brick & mortar à More on dematerialized services
⁃ Train the trainers with and for the digital education
• Access to education and training:
⁃ Contribute to Internet access and bandwidth
⁃ Reach out to underserved communities/gender
Africa needs to succeed its digital transition
We can all contribute !Merci ! Dimitris Noukakis
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