The Global Teacher Crisis

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The Global Teacher Crisis meeting the challenge
through new technologies and new modes of
teaching and learning
Bob Moon The Open University
12th Cambridge International Conference on Open
and Distance Learning, Friday 28th September 2007

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Nigeria
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Nigeria
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Nigeria
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Recommendation concerning the Status of
Teachers Adopted by the Special Intergovernmental
Conference on the Status of Teachers, Paris, 5th
October 1966
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation
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• Sub-Saharan Africa needs four million new
  teachers
• Half of existing teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa
  are untrained
• Teacher salary and status are in free-fall

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• Poor resources
• Poor retention
• Poor CPD

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• HIV/AIDS
• Corruption

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Emerging Voices A Report on Education in South
African Rural Communities
Researched for the Nelson Mandela Foundation by
the HSRC and the EPC
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• Assertions
• Bricks and mortar institutions insufficient
  for 21st century needs
• Most training will be school based
• Most training must be practically focussed
• Potential of new communication technologies must
  be recognised

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Nigeria
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Venezuela
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Eastern Cape
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TESSA Countries Ghana Kenya Nigeria Rwanda South
Africa Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia
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Africa Have Your Say
Teacher Swap
Story Story
African Perspectives
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Free higher education for everyone
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Ghana
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The Open University, Tanzania
The Open University, Sudan
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Tidal wave in which convergent technologies and
broadband accelerate peer-to-peer communication
and user-generated content
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Grassroots revolution of Connectivity Coalition C
ollaboration Creativity
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How can ODLs / OERs today rejuvenate work-based
professional learning?
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Can new forms of interactivity displace the term
distance from the ODL lexicon?
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How can we grasp these new opportunities for ODL
/ OERs to make us (this community here in
Cambridge) centre stage in educational reform?
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Nigeria
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