The Use of ICT for Teaching in a Poor Resource Setting

Anandh-Rao Parathnandh, Shailendra Sing, Umesh Lalloo, Sandy Pillay, Nisha Nadesanreddy

2014

Abstract

South Africa, like many countries in Africa is plagued by issues related to lack of bandwidth and in many of our rural districts there is no infrastructure for any kind of internet connection. One of the key objectives of the MEPI programme (Medical Education Partnership Initiative) is to be able to conduct de-centralised teaching to medical students in rural hospitals via video conferencing. These students are normally doing their community service and have no contact with their lecturers.The role of Computer Education and Information technology is key to the successful implementation of the UKZN MEPI ENTRÉE programme. The IT provisioning involves the setup of infrastructure and the rollout of an effective video conferencing system that would facilitate decentralised teaching and learning. IT. The IT brief also entails the planning and rollout of an E-Learning platform to further enhance the effectiveness of the programme. Given the demographic diversity and lack of adequate IT infrastructure to support such and elaborate objective, IT will have to find innovative ways to overcome these challenges.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Parathnandh A., Sing S., Lalloo U., Pillay S. and Nadesanreddy N. (2014). The Use of ICT for Teaching in a Poor Resource Setting . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: WeLL, (CSEDU 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-020-8, pages 625-628. DOI: 10.5220/0004979806250628

in Bibtex Style

@conference{well14,
author={Anandh-Rao Parathnandh and Shailendra Sing and Umesh Lalloo and Sandy Pillay and Nisha Nadesanreddy},
title={The Use of ICT for Teaching in a Poor Resource Setting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: WeLL, (CSEDU 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={625-628},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004979806250628},
isbn={978-989-758-020-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: WeLL, (CSEDU 2014)
TI - The Use of ICT for Teaching in a Poor Resource Setting
SN - 978-989-758-020-8
AU - Parathnandh A.
AU - Sing S.
AU - Lalloo U.
AU - Pillay S.
AU - Nadesanreddy N.
PY - 2014
SP - 625
EP - 628
DO - 10.5220/0004979806250628