IICD supported project: ICT for Education - Burkina Faso

Countries: Burkina Faso [BF]
Sectors: education

Summary

This project targets twelve secondary schools (5 in the capital and 7 at provincial level) and empowers them to a level where they will be able to better integrate ICTs in their education cycle. This is achieved by raising awareness, by providing capacity development and technical assistance, and through content development. Both teachers and students benefit from newly acquired IT-skills. Once in full implementation, the project should provide lessons and experiences to be fed into the development of the Education policy of Burkina Faso.

Update

Updated: 2008-02-14

The TICE web site (www.tice-burkina.bf) was awarded second prize during the national competition for the best web site, held during the National Internet week in Burkina (June). Teachers involved in the project developed the website themselves to create a pool of teaching materials available online.

Two teachers of the TICE-group have taken up the moderation of the newly formed Tic-Educ BF D-group, from June onwards.

The project team has started to address the gender issue, which came up in the Focus Group in the first quarter of the year, by organizing a special training workshop for female teachers in June.

In December teachers received training in multimedia. During their training they learned how to record and edit images and sound. They also learned to work with Adobe PhotoShop and Wave Movie Creator. With these skills, teachers can start to design their own teaching materials.

The project One Laptop per Child and its portable laptop XO is considered by many people in the West as a beautiful solution for developing countries. In Canada, Infobourg, an agency of educational press, has noted www.tice-burkina.bf and its semniar and article about the XO. Sia Benjamin, the coordinator of the ICT for Education network TIC-EDUC elaborates about One Laptop per Child and how it can be applied within schools in Burkina Faso.

Objectives

The project objectives include better integration of ICT's within the education cycle. This is achieved by raising awareness on the potential of ICT in education, by providing capacity development and technical assistance in IT skills and maintenance, and through development of (digital) teaching materials.

Development Impacts

Whilst the end users of this project are the teachers, the beneficiaries are both teachers and students. The teachers acquire IT-skills, including the technical skills to manage a computer lab in school, and the multimedia skills to widen teaching methods.

Using these skills, they now have access to teaching material online and can create their own teaching material. Students acquire IT-skills and benefit from improved access to learning materials.

Contact Organisation :

Project Contact : IICD