ANNUAL NATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE (ANYC) JANUARY 21, 2015, 2.30-3.30PM, UMA MAIN EXHIBITION HALL, KAMPALA

Theme: Harnessing Youth Potential and Innovation Through ICT

Topic: Best Practices in E-learning

Professor Venansius Baryamureeba, VC UTAMU, barya@utamu.ac.ug

BACKGROUND• Uganda Youth Forum (UYF) Vision—An empowered,

healthy and focused youth• Harnessing youth potential and innovation through

ICT– Harnessing youth potential– Harnessing youth innovation– Youth utilising ICT as a tool

• Best practices in e-learning– E-learning for education– E-learning for health – E-learning for innovation– E-learning for business– E-learning for culture and ethics

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Harnessing Youth Potential• By promoting their health, education, employment

and human rights

• By giving them influence over development policies and strategies

• By listening to their voices

• By harnessing the full potential of youth mentoring relationships

• Educators, youth workers, parents, and community members often share a common goal—they want to help the youth succeed mainly through training and professional development

INVESTING IN HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND JOB CREATION

• Strengthening Health Programs. Improvements in health programs can foster the development of a population that is healthy and capable of contributing to economic growth.

• Expanding Educational Opportunities. Improvements in the quality of education and school completion prepare young women and men with the abilities they need to move into formal-sector jobs, earn higher wages, and contribute to a demographic dividend.

• Creating Jobs. Identifying sectors of the economy that can expand and foster job growth is essential to absorbing the incoming numbers of youth entering the workforce.

Harnessing Youth Potential: Education • Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to

learn and change. Carl Rogers • The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a

child's home. William Temple• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change

the world. Nelson Mandela• Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George

Washington Carver• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected

everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Chanakya• Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest

abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. John F Kennedy

Harnessing Youth Innovation

• Establish youth innovation clubs/networks

– Search, spread, sense and benchmark, and celebrate

• Establish youth innovation centers

• Establish youth innovation zones

• Setup youth innovation and entrepreneurship projects

• Establish youth innovation and entrepreneurship institute

• Establish youth innovation competitions

• Establish youth innovation awards

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you

feed him for a lifetime.

• If we are to harness the youth energy into a productive and effective workforce, we must help the youth help themselves. To achieve this, access to information and education (particularly vocational training focused on market opportunities), to technology (from mobile phones to higher-yielding seeds) and to capital are crucial. Mo Ibrahim.

• We must recognize that facilitating entrepreneurship is the most efficient way to enable the youth to fulfill their aspirations for dignity and a better life.

• Youth need role models e.g. successful youth should document their stories and share them in books.

Youth Using ICT as a Tool

• ICT as a tool for communication

• ICT as a tool for learning

• ICT as a tool for health provision: ICT for health

• ICT as a tool for better functioning of labour markets

• ICT as a tool for development

• Etc etc etc

ICT and job creation

• ICTs are creating new jobs and making labor markets more innovative, inclusive, and global

• ICT Manufacturing

• Job creation through online work

• ICT-enabled Service delivery

Reflections on Knowledge Economy

The strongest currency today is neither the Pound, Euro, Dollar nor the Shilling but it is

Knowledge

Today we live in a knowledge Society which has two main categories of people

• Knowledgeable People

• Knowledge able People

ICTs are enabling the Knowledge Economy

ICT in Learning

• E-learning is the use of electronic media,

educational technology and ICTs in education

• Old and new technologies need to be used in a

balanced way. On-the-air and off-the-air

radio/radio-cassette, television and offline video-

assisted technologies; more interactive

computer/Internet-based virtual education or

online distance learning

• Possible for anyone, anywhere, anytime to learn

• Opened access to reserved educational capital

Delivery Modes will need to change

Lack of facilities and funding

Increase in tuition fees

Growing student population

Privatization of education

Cost effective solutions(e.g. e-learning, virtual

learning, blended )

More virtual universities

Life Long LearningOnly Authorized Access

UTAMU Hybrid Model

Community Engagement

Transformational e-Learning Content Space

Policy Makers and regulatory bodies Collaborative

Partners

UTAMU e-Learning Content Space

Digital Teachers Digital Students Digital Family

UTAMU ContentDatabase

Open AccessDatabase

UTAMUE-Library

UTAMU Social Applications

Integrated Layer

Digital Teachers

Digital Students

E-Learning Content Space

Personal Content Database

Personal Content Space

Education is opening up….

E-Libraries

engage

empower

extend

embed

enhanceenrich

exchangee-learning?

enthuse

entertain

Hybrid Integration of E-Learning has to:

Way Forward and Conclusion• Youth should demand unlimited access to internet:

– Internet enabled Information centers in communities

– Government should subsidise bandwidth

– Government should remove taxes on all ICT equipment including mobile phones

• Youth should put emphasis on online education and online resources

• Youth should engage in lifelong learning supported by the internet

• Ugandan youth should be part of the global youth network to learn and share experiences

I THANK YOU