Digital Skills

New innovations help SAP Africa Code Week inspire next generation of African coders

ADEA, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 20:47

SAP Africa Code Week, Africa's biggest digital skills initiative, is celebrating a successful 2020 program that included a switch to all-virtual teaching, the launch of a smartphone app, a continent-wide coding competition and a host of online Train-the-Trainer sessions aimed at empowering teachers with critical digital teaching skills.
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SAP Africa Code Week celebrates successful 2020 after the shift to an all-virtual format

ADEA, Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 20:41

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that left an estimated 250 million primary and secondary school learners across Africa not attending school, the all-virtual 2020 SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) has celebrated a successful year with students and teachers engaged in coding and digital skills learning across Africa
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Leaving no one behind by fostering Digital Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Africa

ADEA, Monday, December 21, 2020 - 22:14

How can people acquire the skills needed to digitize work to take on new tasks? What must TVET strategies look like to bring technology closer to learners, teachers and managers? These and other questions were discussed on November 26 during the online colloquium on DTVET co-organized by ADEA and Festo Didactic.
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Turning Talent into Skills and Skills into Success

ADEA, Friday, March 22, 2019 - 15:05

As the African continent prepares for a period of profound change, with the launch of a drive to create a common free trade area, increasing exposure to global markets and technological innovation affecting every sector, this year’s eLearning Africa will ask some fundamental questions.
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Digital credentials: A new solution for skills recognition

ADEA, Friday, December 21, 2018 - 13:41

A key challenge in the African continent is the lack of skills. This critical factor has been affecting the growth of companies in a negative way. When companies lack access to skilled labor, their opportunities for growth is severely hindered.
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Rethinking the role of TVET in Future Work and Lifelong Learning, in light of Digitalization and the 4IR

ADEA, Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 11:03

This report provides a general snapshot of the digitalization of TVET and skills systems in a set of countries. The primary data are derived from a desktop literature review on 8 countries, namely Angola, Gabon, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda and a set of questions administered through a questionnaire to experts and practitioners in the TVET sectors of Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda.
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Benefits of Digital Technical and Vocational Education and Training

ADEA, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 10:40

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the challenge of delivering practical lessons remotely, especially in Africa. This is mainly due to technological and resource limitations in addition to inadequate educator and trainer capacity to deliver such online lessons.
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