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Maitlamo
- Botswana's National Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) Policy
The policy was built upon Vision 2016 - Botswana's
long term strategy in January 2005. The objectives
set in the draft ICT policy document are: (1)Creation
of an enabling environment for the growth of an
ICT industry in the country, (2) Provision of universal
service and access to information and communication
facilities in the country, and (3) Making Botswana
a regional ICT Hub so as to make the country's ICT
sector globally competitive. |
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University
of Botswana (UB)
UB is a leading tertiary academic centre of excellence
in Africa. |
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The
Commonwealth of Learning (COL)
COL is an intergovernmental organisation created
by Commonwealth Heads of Government. Its goal is
to encourage the development and sharing of distance
education knowledge, resources and technologies. |
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MIT
OpenCourseWare
A free and open educational resource (OER) for educators,
students, and self-learners around the world. |
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The
Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning (BOCODOL)
BOCODOL aims to improve access to learning opportunities
on a nation-wide scale for out-of-school young adults. |
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The
Department of Vocational Education and Training
(DVET)
DVET is under the Ministry of Education and is responsible
for Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) in
Botswana. |
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Learning
Management Systems (LMS)
LMS manages the delivery of self-paced, e-learning
courses. |
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Blackboard
LMS
Blackboard is a software that creates a web-based
learning environment that can be used as both an
online enhancement to the traditional classroom
or as a delivery strategy for distance learning
classes. |
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Learning
Activity Management System (LAMS)
LAMS is a revolutionary new tool for designing,
managing and delivering online collaborative learning
activities. It provides teachers with a highly intuitive
visual authoring environment for creating sequences
of learning activities. |
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Multimedia
Educational Resrouce for Learning and Online Teaching
(MERLOT)
MERLOT is a repository of learning objects and approaches
sponsored by the Natinal Learning Infrastructure
Inititiave of EDUCAUSE. |
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MOODLE
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free,
Open Source software package designed using sound
pedagogical principles, to help educators create
effective online learning communities. (click
here to learn moodle) |
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eLearning
XHTML editor (eXe)
eXe is a web-based authoring environment designed
to assist teachers and academics in the design,
development and publishing of web-based learning
and teaching materials without the need to become
proficient in HTML, XML or complicated web-publishing
applications. |
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SAKAI
Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment.
Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching
and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support
for portfolios and research collaboration. |
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Moodle
vs Blackboard+WebCT vs Sakai
Moodle: 54% market share; Blackboard + WebCT: 45%
market share; Sakai: 0.63% market share. |
