eLearning Africa 2015, a key platform for discussion about the future of Africa, will take place at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from the 20th – 22nd May under the theme Enriching Tomorrow. Coming back to Ethiopia for the second time and for its tenth anniversary, the ...
Launched in Lagos Nigeria in June 2013, PrepClass ensures that students writing university entrance examinations have access to a plethora of past question material and other educational resources they need to pass exams. The startup has a robust algorithm that determines the strengths and weaknesses of user students so to ...
By Ventureburn's Staff Reporter This post originally appeared on Ventureburn.com, our Africa publishing partner and has been reposted here with permission. ****ePublishing startup Snapplify is set to provide South African learners access to (digital) educational content through a new, and free, eBook store. Snapplify states that it has been watching ...
Kenya's Safari Tales, an African story telling mobile application has launched on Google Play Store to help develop African digital content for children for alternative education and entertainment through mobile devices. Speaking to TechMoran, Njeri Wangari said, "We seek to digitize, preserve and repackage African oral narratives in a fun ...
The StudySear.ch platform is the easiest and most affordable way for Nigerians to apply to study in the UK. All the relevant information required to make a successful application is available for prospective students, their parents and sponsors on one single platform. The platform matches prospective applicants with universities and ...
UNESCO’s Education For All Global Monitoring Report (2013/14) measures governmental financial commitment to education by assessing governments’ budgetary expenditure allocations towards education. Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) expenditure on education, at 18.7% of total government expenditure, is the highest globally. This highlights SSA’s strong commitment to improving education standards and quality. Read ...
In a move that will make math interesting and simple to learn for children in Nigeria primary schools, Finnish phone manufacturer, Nokia has introduced a learning application dubbed SmartKid Maths, available for free download on the Windows Store. Developed by Finnish digital firm SkillPixels, SmartKid Maths is an educational game ...
. About 120 young women from high schools in Nairobi County received career guidance from Microsoft DigiGirlz day on Saturday. This year’s event themed “shaping the future for Digigirlz” was co-hosted with Intel and it took the young women through business and various ICT topics on the latest innovations in ...
Momentum Core and Leti Arts, African start-ups, will this year showcase their apps optimized for Intel® Architecture at Mobile World Congress. Momentum Core will showcase Simiyu the Chicken gaming app while Leti Arts will showcase their Leti Centre. The two apps were developed with support from Intel’s Software Services ...
Intel Corporation has acquired Kno, an education software software (was earlier into hardware) based in North America in a move that will see the chip giant develop an ecosystem of hardware, software and digital content for the global market. Designed for both students and educators, Kno's acquisition boosts Intel's global ...
Eneza Education has hit over 100,000 unique users, three years after launching in Kenya with the aim to make 50 million students in rural Africa smarter via basic low cost mobile technology. The simple to use SMS and USSD service said its largest number of new users came from the ...
Zambia's first educational tablet dubbed ZEduPad has launched with over 1 1000s of lessons of Zambian school syllabus and teacher resources. The touch-screen tablet computer has primary school lessons for Grade 1-7, including early grades in eight local languages, and has many other apps for education, farming and health. Its ...
Founded this year by three young Kenyans, Victoria Njirithia (20), Allan Juma (24) and Kageni Wilson (24), WebDesk is a cross-boundary learning platform that expects to disrupt the way education is delivered and improve study and interactions between students and teachers in institutions of higher learning in Africa when it ...
Menara Primary School, a primary school in Muhoroni, Kisumu County, Kenya has ditched bulky textbooks for Kindles in the latest move to make learning interesting, friendly and cheaper for parents who will not have to buy books each new school year. Organized by the Kindles for Schools Project, a pilot ...
Teach2Teach, a Section 21 not-for-profit organisation has partnered with FOXit, a specialist independent software provider to help simplify learning and manage resources for staff at Ditshego Preschool in Mooiplaas, Gauteng. The partnership has also given Teach2Teach the financial resources it needs to help learning institutions and has helped it demonstrate ...
