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Shadreck Chithila Kwagwanji Post 1

• 30 July 2020, 7:16 PM

Studnts Tablets

Universities like ours which are located in remotest areas and students who go there normally are from poor families who can not afford to get a tablet or an android phone to their children at a university, how can Open University help in soliciting support to get tablets or android phones for such students for them to access online learning without such challenges?

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Monioluwa Olaniyi Post 2 in reply to 1

• 31 July 2020, 5:05 AM

I think one of the challenges that the course has thrown at participants is to explore opportunities and possibilities around you. I will advise Shadreck, that you explore opportunities in your immediate environment. I would expect that it would be the responsibilities of policy makers in your country and other stakeholders to ensure that such devices are made available to learners or at least the cost subsidized. 

You may also take up the challenge and seek NGOs and funding organizations in your neighborhood who would be able to fund some small projects. You remember Elim project in Kenya?

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Gladys Rotich Post 3 in reply to 2

• 31 July 2020, 8:34 AM
Yes Olaniyi, this forum has made me think deeper of my home village. Though i am in the city of Nairobi Kenya, at the village they even do not have electricity. It is they high time to involve policy makers about electricity and linking with NGOs to help with tablets. I now dream of creating a community library structure in my home village...
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Michele Deane Post 4 in reply to 3

• 9 August 2020, 11:08 AM

I agree with you, Monioluwa and Gladys. As teachers / educators working in difficult circumstances, we need to be creative and use our environment, and more precisely our communities. What you write, Monioluwa reminds me of case study 11.1 in the TESSA toolkit for Teaching Practice Supervisors 

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Franci Mureithi Post 5 in reply to 1

• 11 August 2020, 4:19 AM

Sir, Shedrack, this is a genuine concern for your students. Unfortunately government may take long to satisfy the needs for all learners and as others have said we need to take an initial step in triggering, sustaining access to the gadgets, even if it means starting with shared devises among students.

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Chimdiebere Joseph Post 6 in reply to 1

• 27 August 2020, 12:07 PM

Open University can help to achieve this,  by relating the issue to the government, to support in building free education, for the less privileged, in other to have access for their online learning. They can also achieve this, by developing learning resources and adopting licences for the students.