Elearning Africa 2012 – survey & opinion pieces

Abstract

I have been reading the impressive The Elearning Africa Report 2012, a publication which sets out to address "the absence of comprehensive, consistent and coherent documentation on eLearning practice in Africa", as the editors Shafika Isaacs and David Hollow put it. I was pleased to contribute a piece too. Being asked to consider the question of 21st century skills (and please don't say the same old same old, they stressed!), focused my mind on what it means that content online is becoming more social, fluid, mobile, visual, dynamic and distributed, while being less scaffolded, and with authority and expertise likely to be less explicit (to quote from the final paragraph).