Transforming African education systems in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) using ICTs: challenges and opportunities
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2019-02
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Education Research International
Abstract
This paper presents the role of ICTs in transforming Africa’s Education Systems (AES) in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) subjects/courses. The paper highlights on a positive shift across Africa in using ICT to improve the quality of
teaching and learning through activities such as intensive ICT skills training to teachers, increase in ICT equipments and ap-
plications in schools, and emergence of living labs (LLs) and innovation spaces/centres (InnoSpace). We first provide some of the
challenges of integrating ICTs in education followed by a description of key past and current ICT initiatives supporting the
adoption of ICTs in schools using a number of case studies in sub-Saharan Africa. We further present various ICT-based models
for education, as a transformational approach towards integrating ICTs in AES. Moreover, we provide various ICT platforms
deployed for education service delivery in disadvantaged African society (e.g., rural areas) including LLs and InnoSpace across the
continent. Finally, we highlight our main findings and observations in terms of opportunities and future ICT for education
research directions in Africa. Our aim is to provide some guidelines and ensure that Africa uniformly meet the 2030 United
Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 4, which is to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong
learning, particularly using ICTs.
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Education Systems, Technology, Science, Mathematics, ICTs