The eLearning Africa Conference (eLA) is organised to meet the networking needs of the Pan-African eLearning and distance education sector. eLearning Africa conference is the key networking venue for practitioners and professionals from Africa and all over the world. This event started in 2006, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference takes place annually in a selected African country. This year is the 5th eLA Conference and will be hosted in Lusaka, Zambia, May 26-28, 2010. The past eLA conferences are listed below:-
• 2009, Dakar, Senegal
• 2008, Accra, Ghana
• 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
The eLA conference has continued to attract a large number of participants drawn from various sections of the information community. The number of participants has risen from 850 (Addis Ababa) 1,450 (Nairobi), 1,350 (Accra) 1, 500 (Dakar). It is of interest to as many professionals as listed below:
• Deans, directors and researchers from universities and the higher education sector.
• Corporate training and development executives
• School principals and administrators, teachers and trainers
• Senior staff from government departments and international development cooperation agencies
• Programme managers and education administrators
• Human Resources executives
• IT managers/Technology and service providers
• Leaders of professional associations, expertise centres, trade unions, chambers of commerce, local and regional authorities, NGOs and continuing education centres
• Publishers, instructional designers and content providers
• eLearning specialists, multimedia and software designers, system integration specialists and end-user support managers
• Performance and competence management specialists
eLearning Africa features various types of sessions in order to create the most comprehensive and cohesive agenda possible. The conference agenda is divided into:
• Pre-Conference Workshops,
• Pre-Conference Seminars,
• Pre-Conference Meetings,
• Plenary Sessions
• Presentation Sessions
• Debates and Discussions
• Special Focus Sessions
• Demonstration Sessions
• Best Practice Showcases
• Networking Sessions
• Speed Networking Sessions
Source: http://www.elearning-africa.com
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