This document discusses enabling e-learning in Tanzania. It outlines the key components that must be connected - teachers, students, and parents. Tanzania has the necessary infrastructure in place with over 32 million mobile subscribers and a 10,000km national ICT broadband backbone. Several e-learning initiatives have launched, but more digital content is still needed, especially in Swahili. The document calls for maximizing synergy between government and private sector e-learning efforts to avoid duplication and create a coordinated system. It argues that with busy parents and existing infrastructure, now is the right time to more fully implement e-learning in Tanzania.

1. Enabling e-learning
environment in
Tanzania

2. Why this is the right
time to speak about e-
learning?

3. The three most important components...
The
Teachers
The
Students
The
Parents

4. How do we
connect
them
together?

5. 32,000,000
The Number of Mobile Subscribers in Tanzania
(TCRA & Reuters)

6. 10,000Km
...that is the coverage of the National ICT
Broadband Backbone to all National HQs.. (Prof.
Makame Mbarawa)

7. ...so the infrastructure is
there..
....People can be reached..

8. ..and things has been happening...
▧ New platforms for contents delivery... Shule Direct,
EduMek
▧ News ways to deliver information to parents Edu-Taarifa
▧ News ways to deliver educational contents Ubongo Kids
▧ New ways to track schools and check their
performances ShuleWiki & Scholar Dream
▧ Reviewing of policies and setting goals...
▧ Mobile learning Nokia Momath Project
▧ Pilot ICT projects for secondary schools...
▧ … number of platforms for school resources
management...

9. ..small timeline on major e-learning
events in Tanzania...
2007
ICT Policy
for basic
education.
2011
Coursera &
WB e-
learning pilot
project.
2008
Computer
Labs in
Public Schools.
2010
ICT In
Educational
Situational
Analysis
Report 2010
20132009
ICT Teachers
Professional
Development
TZ-Country
Level
Knowledge
Project CLK.
2014
Nokia
Mobile
Math
Project

10. ...what is missing?
....to my understanding..

11. The System
(A set of things
working together)
1. The Role of the policy...
The Process
(Steps taken to
achieve a certain
end)
….On reviewing 2007’S ICT in Education Policy...

12. What still needs to be
done?

13. Very few Swahili
Educational Contents
online....
2. Creating more digital educational
contents...

14. 90.7%
Of the online presence in Tanzania prefers
Facebook (TCRA 2012 & IppMedia)

15. What are we
doing about
this?

16. E-Learning
Initiatives..
3. Maximizing the synergy...
The
Government
….No need to duplicates the efforts...
The Private
Sector

17. This is why...
▧ First, parents are too busy for their kids...
▧ Second, we have the infrastructure to do so....
▧ Third, we doing it but somehow disorganized...
▧ Fourth, when are we going to do it if not now...

18. “Failure to make a decision is itself a
decision...

19. How can
you get involved?

20. Thanks!
Any questions?
@J4Mtambalike
jumanne@buni.or.tz