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Information & Communications Technology
“ICT” will play a vital role in the education process in the
coming years, particularly in the developing countries .
I have been interested for a long time in
development of e-Learning platforms and systems and its impact
on the learning process. Open Educational Resources “OER” is a
remarkable progress toward an open, free, rich content
educational material, international recognized academic
institutions like MIT have launched their own OER initiatives,
MIT courseware intuitive “OCW” was will received around the
world, MIT has released all its educational materials (courses
structures, lecture notes, tutorials,...ect) free online .
From 2005 to 2007 I was actively
participating in the project of Teachers Education for
Sub-Sahara Africa “TESSA
– TESSA web site “. This is a scientific research
project conducted by the
British Open University “OU” with the participation of 9
African states among them Sudan, South Africa, Uganada, Kenya,
Tanzania, Ganha and Nigeria. The project goal is to develop Open
Education Resources “OER” for teachers training in 5 Languages (
Arabic, English, Xhosa, Swahili and French ) for teachers in
basic and secondary level, the produced resources will be
available in printed format and online version will be available
in TESSA portal .
Another field of my interested is the use
of portable devices in the education process, laptops and other
smart devices “PDA” could enrich the learning experience
specially for the children . I did contribute in the preparation
for the Digital
Enhancement Education Project “DEEP”, DEPP is a unique
research project with the objective to study the impact of using
portable devices in schools in rural areas developing countries,
the project will use new specially designed portable units that
will resist the rough use and environment conditions in rural
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