At recent workshop that I facilitated, a group of participants were projecting their work on a screen so that they could work together. They were creating a storyboard outlaying it in powerpoint. They connected three different laptops. They rebooted them several times. The projector was swapped out. They even tried different cables from the projector …
Help has many options and when I should get a chocolate Read More »
Recently when I was in West Africa, I was chatting with someone who is the head of a local organization about technology project. The project would benefit agriculture in a rural community. The organization’s solution is good, she was saying, “So how do you get people, in particular the BBCers (born before computers) to use …
Getting people to use your technology: Thank you but no thanks Read More »
You hear alot that people want to use technology in learning to reduce costs of face-to-face learning. It is true. We do have to decrease them for a range of reasons: costs too much to bring the people together, takes away from their work, people can’t remember everything that they learned when it is all …
Technology AND People is GREATER THAN Technology MINUS People Read More »
When I lived in The Gambia, to ask someone to turn a light or anything off, people would say “off it.” I thought of that expression when I was writing this post. What about “off-it” referring to the internet? Either people have been so consumed with being online, they need to “off it” to come …
I think about learning. A lot. I look at learning as a process. I think about the system that is needed to be in place to make learning happen. The sketchnote is my attempt to visualize how I am currently thinking about learning. (Yes, I drew it.) All the pieces of the vision exist not …
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I had a conversation this week with a colleague from Africa who talked about creating videos to demonstrate specific skills and showing them on tablets. He described it as innovative. I had to break the news to him that videos on tablets is not innovative. What is innovative is why the technology is used, how …
Not how? or what? but why? @ Coders4Africa event Read More »
In January 2013 the U.S. Secretary of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues and UN Women had the first International Forum on Women, ICT, and Development (WICTAD) . Maybe these two organizations are having their first forum but people have been involved with women, ICT and development for years. Technologies have changed but issues remain …
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The course focuses on the macroeconomy as a general equilibrium system and discusses how goods, money and factor markets interact to determine national income and its components. The topics to be covered are: macroeconomic data, the neo-classical model of economic growth, equilibrium unemployment, monetary system, money neutrality and inflation.
Basically deals with politics. It includes learning in public administration and law.