Intel and Kenyan Ministry of Education Partnership for Better Elearning Development Tools and Solutions

Nairobi, Kenya (June 23, 2010) – Kenyan elearning will benefit from Intel Corporation’s endeavors to cut down the expenses of education delivery by teaming up with the country’s ministry of Education. The partnership will ease in the incorporation of elearning development tools and solutions into the standard curriculum. The effort aims to improve learning delivery experiences across the nation.

Elearning is taking the world by storm with its offering of convenience, cost-effectiveness and efficiency. Various educational institutions from all over the world have already established the use of elearning in their own processes, and Kenya is beginning to join the bandwagon. The design of such an innovation involves the appropriate use of various authoring and elearning development tools for the creation of high quality electronic learning courses and programs.


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The program from the joint efforts of Intel Corporation and the Kenyan Ministry of Education will reduce the expenses of education by including the increasingly popular innovation into the nation’s learning curriculum. It will provide a more beneficial ratio of a 1 is to 1 relationship. However, this will not be a standard relationship limited between the student and a teacher, but the student with the community of learners and the various resources made available by electronic learning. According to Suraj Shah, Corporate Communications Manager for Intel Corporation, “We have a number of school representatives that have already been taken through this solution and some are ready to have this rolling out.”

The program will focus on the needs of the students with their unique needs. It will allow them to interact with a community of online learners. They will be able to create new projects, learn and practice new set of skills and share new knowledge and information with a variety of people from across the nation. A more important effect will be the increase in independent learning as students are encouraged to take initiative in their learning. The emphasis on self-direction will allow them to explore more and acquire more relevant knowledge and skills.

Through the proper use of ICT initiatives and elearning development tools, students will enjoy increased benefits from improved engagement, an active set of courses, and less limitation traditionally imposed by mere books and classroom discussions. It will provide learners with the necessary knowledge and skills and result in more meaningful learning experiences. This will contribute to a more successful education for them, allowing them to compete in a global setting. The deputy director of Kenya Institute of Education John Kimotho explained, “We view this technology as a tool for building these skills and advancing individual and national competitiveness.”

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Wanted: Partner

I have to honest; we are in some deep financial trouble right now. And regardless how our company got here – if it was because we were losing clients or maybe just some huge strike or bad luck – the fact is we have to do something drastic, and fast. This is just the second year of our bank, so it’s relatively still new plus we didn’t have that much awareness when it came down to our bank’s existence.

So I suggested to one of my bosses that we ally our bank with one of those big banks in the city. It was gamble, he told me. Although, I have to admit I was also unsure of this move since I understand that it might have a toll on our company later, I also understand that the dilemma we face can only be solved quickly without much delay if and only if we were going to have a big partner. We needed names. We needed it now. For a company whose sole investors and clients were country folks and senior citizens, we were doing well. But for a bank that needed money just to survive this year, we were pretty much, as they say, on the brink of destruction.


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At first, I thought using partner portals with other businesses would do well in this situation since it would allow our company to analyze which specific target market we were going to reel in if we made a big bait, like say help them with their home loan modifications.

Boy was I wrong. It seems that partner portals only works well if one of the parties involve was a big name, big enough for people to recognize and known enough for people to give it their direct trust. Apparently, small businesses and banks don’t have much to trade information with especially that both of their flow of business are running slow.

With that said, it was as clear as day that we needed some big business or bank that would call upon the mighty strike of good luck. We also had the option of relocating to the city but then any banker who would see our left budget for that case would end up in tears. Until we find someone good enough to salvage us from this circumstance, I can only pray, wait and hope that our “downtime” would come to an end.