Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
Celebrating 30+ Years of
Service to the IT in Education / E-Learning Community
In July this year, the e-Institute – World Bank's global learning platform – went live, offering development practitioners worldwide a virtual classroom to share high quality learning and knowledge resources.
Development practitioners around the world often do not have easy access to cutting-edge learning. Available courses are usually not customized to local realities and potential participants have no budget to travel to a central location. Many struggle with problems similar to their peers in other developing countries but they have no platform to connect with each other and get feedback on their issues and concerns.
Taking advantage of new technologies, this learning experience will be affordable, innovative, and practitioner-focused. The e-Institute will reach out directly to policy makers, civil society organizations, media, parliaments, private sector, academic, and youth – the key “stakeholders for change”. The e-Institute will also collaborate with key partners including national and regional training institutes and networks, think tanks, and universities.
This presentation will talk about the concept, audience, approach and future vision, including partnership opportunities.
Sheila Jagannathan is an educational specialist at the World Bank Institute. Her experience is at the blend of technology and learning and has worked for over 20 years in private and public sector organizations designing and managing distance learning program and knowledge products in the US, India, East Asia, including China, Middle East and North Africa and more recently in Africa. She is passionate about e-learning and its opportunities for development and her current interests range from pedagogy and technologies, including serious games, social technologies, open source content and tools, collaborative platforms and future e-learning trends. She has a master degree, certificate of advanced graduate study in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University, and she has completed all the requirements except for the dissertation towards a Ph.D. For fun she love to cook and is working on a vegetarian cookbook with an international flavor, volunteering and reading.For fun she love to cook and is working on a vegetarian cookbook with an international flavor, volunteering and reading.
