Educational Technology in Egypt
Egypt is the largest country in the Middle East in terms of
population, almost 100 million people, the thing that has placed several challenges
in the educational systems which in turn affected the ICT development and
integration into the educational system.
From 1990 to 2000, the Egyptian government managed to
increase the number of schools in the basic education stage from 11,000 to 30,000
schools in order to provide places for the new babies born and by 2015, the
number of schools reached 43,000 Schools Public & Private altogether.
In the Pre-university education, the over-population challenge
pushed the government to invest more in ICT infrastructure by providing
hardware and technological devices such as computer labs and data show in order
to facilitate learning and create a computer literate generation.
As for the university education, the challenge was beyond hardware
and technological equipment, the integration of Technology Distance Training
& Video Conferencing within the higher education was in itself a top
priority. The struggle is still there in terms of integration aspects.
The information technology institute was established in 1993 in
Egypt in order to develop further the ICT sector and to keep up with the latest
advancement in field as well as to bridge the gap between the shortage of
skills in the labor market and the thousands of graduates finishing their education
every year looking for career opportunities, this by providing specialized training
and career development.
Egyptian E-Learning University (EELU) has been established in 2008 to support in the
development of training and career opportunities by providing high-quality education
and training services to supply the labor-market with employees who are able to
deal with the most advanced ICT world.
The education in Egypt is still facing several challenges
such as implementing ICT as part of graduate student’s studies, also in terms
of developing learning and training materials in order to implement
technological learning as part of the educational system, hence integrating curriculum
into the ICT plans.
One of the biggest challenges is that most teachers have not
received proper training in ICT. As a result there is still a need for projects
that are concerned with capacity building and human resource development as a
basic need for achieving educational development.
So many challenges, yet so many opportunities are there for
development with a huge potential to keep up with the most recent innovations in
Educational Technology if there would be a national plan and well-planned
strategies to comprehensively develop further.
Dear Tharwat,
ReplyDeleteI would like to thank you for your petcha kutcha because it was interesting and you have presented it in a great way. You mentioned some facts about the motherland of cultures, about Egypt that I did not know before and how its population has rapidly raised up within less than 50 years. The only thing I would say about your presentation is that the time for every slide in pecha cutcha should not exceed 20 seconds and should contain less writings. Otherwise, Your pecha kucha is great and cheerful. Best of luck.
Thanks a lot for you positive feedback, I really appreciate taking the time and comments you made, pecha kucha is on my skills list of further development :)
DeleteThank you Tharwat for your presentation, a lot of good information on one slide set.
ReplyDeleteIt's also impressive that you have yourself been dealing with such a variety of projects concerning education and technology. It also seems that teaching English is one of you several strengths, would be nice to have some tips on that.
I have one question about EELU: Is it available for everyone in Egypt and how much does it cost?
Egypt is an interesting country. I would have wanted to listen to you for a lot longer as the time limit did not allow you to go too much into details. I would have loved to hear more about the educational technology in typical Egyptian schools and about the differences there are in different areas in Egypt. Next time: more pictures and your personal opinions (as you seem to have a solid view on these things) and less text :)
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