VOICES RISING
YEAR III - VOL 3. Nº142
CONTENT
ICAE ACADEMY OF LIFELONG LEARNING ADVOCACY (IALLA)
1.- GENDER AND GCAP (Africa)
2.- THE FEUP AND THE EAEA CREATE THE EUROPEAN LINK OFFICE OF EDUCATION OF ADULT PEOPLE WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN ONE AND LATIN AMERICA
3.- AFRICAN WOMEN CENSURE THEIR LEADERS FOR MORTGAGING THE CONTINENT.
4.- ONLINE IT-ENGLISH MULTIMEDIA COURSE FOR PRE-INTERMEDIATE AND INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS
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ICAE ACADEMY OF LIFELONG LEARNING ADVOCACY (IALLA)
From July 26 to August 11, 2005.
Buskerud Folk Highschool, Norway
Applications close on June 10, 2005
www.icae.org.uy
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1.- GENDER AND GCAP (Africa)
Ana Agostino
anajairo@mweb.co.za
Dear friends,
from May 23 to 25 we had a Gender and GCAP (Africa) meeting in Nairobi. It was a technical meeting called by organisations from different regions in Africa (AWEPON from East Africa, ANCEFA from West Africa, MWENGO from Southern Africa) and the UN Millennium Campaign. The meeting aimed at preparing the regional consultation and launch of the Gender and GCAP Africa. It had the following objectives:
- to shape clear positions and messages on women's rights in the GCAP campaign. These positions will be tabled at (amongst others) the AU, G8, WTO and during al the whiteband days.
- to package the above-said positions and messages in the context of commitments made in Beijing, the Cairo process, Vienna, the AU and CEDAW; and to develop advocacy tools that will act as a road-map for women's groups interested in becoming engaged in the process.
- to strategise on the way forward for the Women's Rights Movement in the continent.
Women from the different regions presented a summary of what is happening in terms of women's organisations participation in GCAP. There was a common feeling that not many women's organisations are on board and a shared concern about why this is so. Different reasons were expressed about the content of the campaign, but also the way it operates that leaves many women's organisations in Africa behind. Internet access is not something that can be taken for granted, and many times demands come from GCAP with answers for NOW, or tomorrow by 5, or by Monday and it's Friday. By the time many organisations have access to their messages deadlines are long gone. It might seem as if those organisations were not involved, or keen to participate, but in actual fact they were not given the chance to do so. This is an important aspect that, if not considered, might leave many important contributions from a variety of women's organisations out of the campaign. There was also a feeling that the main topics of the campaign: trade, aid, debt and governance are not necessarily the ones that will motivate more women to join. They do not portray the messages that will engage them. The feeling was that there is no need to change those selected areas, but yes to expand them to contemplate those affecting women in Africa and in other regions of the South on a daily basis.
Some of the concerns that guided the discussions were:
1. What are our objectives as African women in GCAP?
2. Who is our target? (This related to the fact that the main target of GCAP seem to be the UN and the International financial institutions. There are other targets that motivate the involvement of many women's organisations in Africa, particularly at the national level).
3. What are our key issues of concern as African women in relation to poverty?
4. What are our demands/messages?
5. How to mobilise African women and women's groups at the 3 levels: national, regional and global?
6. How to work within the framework of GCAP and beyond?
Responding to these concerns and as a result of intense dialogue, a series of statements were drafted that will be presented to the continental meeting that will take place on June 21-22 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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ERADICATING POVERTY THROUGH FULFILLING COMMITMENTS AND UPHOLDING WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Preamble-
From a women’s human rights perspective, poverty is not merely a state of low income but a human condition characterised by the sustained deprivation of the capabilities, choices and power necessary for the enjoyment of fundamental rights. Poverty is created, sustained and reinforced by systemic imbalances in wealth and power which in turn perpetuate human rights violations, gender inequalities and economic injustice.
Sufficient income is necessary to lowering poverty, but getting communities out of poverty will depend on women’s leadership, access to education, time, land, healthcare and credit, as well as women enjoying their reproductive and sexual rights, freedom from violence, and equal rights in the family and in society.
African women are disproportionately affected by poverty in the most extreme ways. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest HIV infection rate with women accounting for more than half of the people living with HIV.[1][1] As well as being the majority who are infected by HIV, women also have serious constraints in accessing health care and essential services and at the same time, they have the greatest burden in providing care and support to families and community members.
We are deeply concerned that there does not appear to be concerted effort continue to uphold and fulfil previous international commitments – among them – the Beijing Platform for Action, the International Conference on Population and Development-ICPD/Cairo commitments and other regional agreements. These now appear to have been completely over-taken and over-shadowed by the very narrow agenda set out in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Thus for example the Beijing 12 critical areas of concern have been “reduced” to one MDG (#3).
We urge the international community to reaffirm the critical importance of gender equality, women’s empowerment and the promotion and protection of human rights of women. African women demand that the old promises as laid out in all the international conferences of the 1990s including: Vienna, Cairo, and Beijing be kept and fulfilled; and that these are included in any frameworks- old or new- addressing development and poverty.
We are therefore, making the following specific demands:
Governments must reaffirm that gender equality, women’s empowerment and the promotion and protection of the full enjoyment by women of all human rights and fundamental freedoms are essential to create a world in which all are free from want, free from fear and free to live in dignity. The international community must re-affirm and include all the 12 critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform For Action: poverty, education and training, health, violence, armed conflict, economy, decision-making, institutional mechanisms, human rights, media, environment and the girl-child. Governments must fulfil the promises as contained in the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, (CEDAW), Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies, (‘85), Vienna Declaration on Human Rights (’93), ICPD- Cairo (’94), as well as the 7 strategic priority areas recommended by the Gender Equality and Education Taskforce of the Millennium Project for the realization of MDG #3.
1.1 Reaffirm education as a fundamental right in itself and as an enabling right. In addition we urge governments to:
· Go beyond primary education and provide post-primary opportunities for girls
· Eliminate all user fees
· Provide opportunities for non-formal education for women and girls
· Enhance the quality of education and provide infrastructure such as separate toilets
· Enhance the content of education and eliminate gender biases and stereotypes
· Ensure safe schooling environments and eliminate violence as a structural barrier to access and retention of girls in schools.
1.2 Refine the monitoring frameworks for measuring gender equality
The UN Secretary General must further refine the monitoring framework to accelerate progress toward the implementation of the MDGs, in particular there is need to refine the indicators for measuring Goal number 3.
2. Focus on emerging urgent agendas
In addition to fulfilling the long standing agenda, we urge governments and the United Nations to focus on the emerging and urgent issues currently affecting women on the African continent. These include in order of priority:
2.1 The scourge of HIV & AIDS
African women are disproportionately affected by HIV/ & AIDS. We call upon governments to urgently commit themselves to a radical agenda that will transform power relations as well as all other factors that are driving the epidemic. In particular this must address:
2.2 Promote and protect women’s rights in conflict
African women are disproportionately affected by conflict and are primary targets for violence. Conflict is a key driver of poverty and HIV/AIDS, as women get subjected to displacement, material loss, identity loss and the breakdown of basic social services and networks. We are demanding that this is included as a key concern in addressing development in Africa and new commitments are made to ensure women’s rights are upheld in areas that are affected and prone to conflict, war and violence. Governments must:
2.3 Promote and protect women’s rights from the threat of fundamentalisms
The so-called ‘War on Terror’, has fuelled a rise in fundamentalisms of various kinds. Coupled with the rise in poverty and HIV & AIDS, African women are experiencing increasing persecution, violence and constraints on their basic freedoms. More worrisome is the increase in militarization and a culture of militarization which poses major threats to women’s security. Within this context, women’s bodies, women’s movements, and women’s personal freedoms have become severely circumscribed. We therefore demand that;
2.4 Adopt laws, policies, and promote practices that protect the rights of women and promote gender equality
African women are disadvantaged by laws and policies that either discriminate against them blatantly, or are silent about the particular circumstances of women. Unless African governments repeal these laws, enact new ones or take steps to transform gender relations women and girls will continue to be disproportionately affected by poverty, violence, and HIV & AIDS among other key problems. We therefore call on African governments to prioritize:
[1][1] UNAIDS (2004) Facing the Future: Report of the Secretary-General’s Taskforce on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa, see http://womenandaids.unaids.org/regional/default.html
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS, AID, TRADE AND DEBT
Preamble:
Africa’s current debt stock stands at more than USD 300 billion and the continent spends more than USD 15 billion every year in debt servicing.[2][2] This translates to about 30-40% of most African
governments’ annual budgets, crippling their abilities to provide basic social services such as education, health, water and sanitation. The debt burden coupled with the decreasing and poor quality of aid (with conditionalities) and worsening terms of trade has had adverse effects on the lives of African women.
African women bear the brunt of ensuring food security, producing for international and domestic markets, as well as supplementing health care systems by providing their unpaid and underpaid labour. This has led to the increased feminisation of poverty, thereby compromising all poverty eradication efforts.
Most international policy making processes and agreements on trade, aid, and debt have largely ignored the specific problems, needs and rights of women. This is accentuated by the lack of critical analysis and gender perspectives on each of these issues and their implications on women. It is our view that all issues are “gendered”. It is therefore imperative that gender analysis pervades both discourse and policy.
African women call upon governments and the international community to commit themselves to the following:
1. Aid
1.1 International community
· Aid should however, prioritize empowering women through achieving gender equality goals as contained in the Beijing platform for Action and the ICPD programme of action.
· Aid should be in the form of grants not loans (as loans increase the debt burden of poor countries).
· Governments should meet their commitments to development assistance – meeting the target of minimum 0.7% of GNP.
1.2 National governments
· Gender sensitive analysis and budgeting that prioritises women’s needs
· Prudent use of aid resources to ensure that women benefit
· Ensuring that women access basic social services like health, reproductive health, and education by directing more aid to these sectors.
· Governments must consult all key stakeholders, especially women, prior to contracting new aid (especially loans).
· Actively involve women in all stages of policymaking i.e. conceptualization, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development processes.
We are therefore calling on women to continue to put pressure on national governments and donors to demand gender sensitive policies and budgets, as well as holding governments accountable.
2. Debt
Much of the debt of developing countries is being paid for by poor women. Currently women are providing healthcare, education, child and elder care, and other services which support families, societies and economies as part of their unpaid labour. In order to eradicate poverty and advance human rights therefore, debt must be cancelled, resources shared equitably and essential services must be provided by the state.
2.1 International community
· 100% unconditional cancellation of debts of the most highly indebted and poorest countries (HIPC)
· Agree to unconditional debt cancellation of all illegitimate debts, such as those that cannot be serviced without causing significant harm to women, those incurred by corruption and fraud and those with exorbitant interest rates, taking into account that any ‘debt sustainability’ analysis must include an audit of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of all previous debts
· Establish an independent, transparent arbitration process for debt cancellation and an ethical lending and borrowing mechanism to prevent further recurrence of the debt crisis
2.2 National governments
· Ensure prudent use of debt cancellation resources to ensure they benefit women and promote gender equality, as well as provide the necessary essential services.
· Put mechanisms for overseeing gender-sensitive loan contraction mechanisms to ensure that the debt crisis does not recur.
· To practise responsible borrowing and ensuring that civil society, including women’s organizations are consulted in any agreements that national governments take on regarding lending or borrowing.
3. Trade
Trade expansion – both within and across borders – has been dependent on poor women’s labour. Trade justice therefore implies not only more equitable terms of trade and national economic sovereignty, but also guaranteeing women’s rights.
3.1 International community
· UN - ECOSOC must commission a comprehensive social and gender sensitive review of the current process of trade liberalization, trade expansion and intensification and their utility and efficacy for just, equitable and sustainable development, paying particular attention to the concerns of women, and to the impact of the privatization of services under GATS on women
· A stop to trade liberalization, as it leads to undesirable consequences such as dumping of cheap products which adversely affects national food sovereignty, pushing women out of the formal sector and contributing to increased exploitation and loss of livelihoods.
· A stop to export-driven economies, as they put increasing burdens on women who are often the providers of cheap labour without reaping the benefits of profits.
· Trade agreements must stop pushing national governments into a privatisation agenda, which puts basic social services in the hands of the private sector making them inaccessible to poor African women.
· Remove subsidies, tariffs and non tariff barriers in international markets, which negatively impact on women’s earning capacity.
· To find a solution to urgently deal with the continued falling commodity prices as they reduce the women’s incomes.
· Ensure women’s land rights, labour rights and decent jobs, as well as protecting women’s agricultural activities, maintaining food security, livelihoods and traditional knowledge.
· Develop policies so that the benefits of trade will advance development objectives, including international commitments to women’s rights.
3.2 National governments
· Regulate operations of Transnational National Corporations (TNCs) to protect the rights of women.
· Put in place policies that will promote, guarantee and support women‘s entrepreneurship, land rights, labour rights and decent livelihoods.
· Protect women’s agricultural rights.
· Protect women’s traditional/indigenous knowledge from bio-piracy by TNCs.
· Develop policies so that the benefit of trade will advance development objectives and reach the most marginalized especially poor women.
· Conduct public consultations and policy reviews with relevant sectors, including women’s organizations and networks, aimed at anticipating the impact on women of bilateral, regional and international trade agreements, in order to identify potential negative impact on women with respect to earning levels, job security, labor standards, unpaid work burdens and access to productive and natural resources.
· Resist International Financial Institutions’ (IFIs) privatization and liberalization agendas which have adverse effects on women.
Africa Action Resource, 2005, ‘Africa’s Debt’, see: http://www.africaaction.org/resources/issues/debt.php
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2.- THE FEUP AND THE EAEA CREATE THE EUROPEAN LINK OFFICE OF EDUCATION OF ADULT PEOPLE WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN ONE AND
PRESS RELEASE
info@feup.org
MADRID 23 OF MAY 2005
The European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA) and the Spanish Federation of Popular Universities (FEUP) constituted last May 23 the Link Office in Madrid for the Mediterranean and Latin America in the development and extension of the lifelong learning.
The President of the Popular Universities and Mayor of Albacete, Mr. Manuel Perez Castell, explained that these are institutions integrated in a network mostly municipal in 12 communities and 231 localities of 26 provinces, at which two million persons are present, with 3.500 qualified average or top teachers.
In the meeting to create this office were institutional and technical representatives of Spain -Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Canarias, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla León, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia y Valencia-, and other European countries
-Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, France, Norway and Holland-. They were accompanied, also by representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) and the National University of Education Distantly (UNED).
The Popular Spanish Universities neither give specific formal education nor extend academic titles, but they deal with matters as the equality of man and women, the social adaptability, the respect to the environment, and the answers to the multicultural and to miscegenation society.
They organize hundreds of workshops directed principally women and young people, as employment, literature, theatre, painting, music, graphical arts, digital literacy, knowledge of the environment, travels, study of local history and ethnography, etc. The cost runs principally on charge of the cities and villages´ town halls, as much of infrastructure as of management and teaching staff. The students usually pay part of the material.
The FEUP counts on the support of Ministries such as, Spanish Labour and Social Affaires Ministry, the Ministry of Health and Consumption, the Ministry of Education and Science, etc. In the year 2005 had been including an financial support for FEUP in the Spanish General Budgets of the State.
The European Association for the Adult Education (EAEA), presided by Dr. János Tóth, is composed by 34 countries and more than 100 organizations of adult education in Europe, in which 50 million people are participating as learners. The European Network of the EAEA has nowadays offices in Brussels/Belgium (General Secretariat), Helsinki /Finland (Information and Communication), Budapest /Hungary (Extension to the Countries of the East) and newly created office of Madrid/Spain (Presence of the countries of Europa's South, the Mediterranean and Latin America).
SPANISH FEDERATION OF POPULAR UNIVERSITIES
C / THE MADRAZO, 3 1º
Tlf: 91 521 91 08
Fax: 91 523 10 87
e-mail: info@feup.org
web: www.feup.org
President: D.
General Coordinators: Dª Isabel García-Longoria / Montserrat Morales
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF ADULTS (EAEA)
Tlf: + 32 2 513 52 05
e-mail: eaea-main@eaea.org
Web: www.eaea.org
President: Jànos Sz. Tóth
General Secretary:
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3.- AFRICAN WOMEN CENSURE THEIR LEADERS FOR MORTGAGING THE CONTINENT.
SALMA MAOULIDI
smlidi@yahoo.com
“In my 78 years of existence, never have I heard African women this angry”, admitted His Excellency Hon. Moody Awori the Vice President of Kenya. Vice President Awori was representing the President of Kenya at the inaugural AWOMI meeting held in Nairobi the week beginning May 9, 2005. The president was invited by the convenors of the African Women Millennium Initiative (AWOMI) not to speak but to listen to African women as they spoke about poverty.
Also, in attendance at the inaugural meeting were Mr. Paul Andre de la Porte, the UN Resident Director, the African Representative of the Global Aids Fund, Hon. Achillo Ayacko the Minister for Gender, heads of various UN missions and Ambassadors. In many ways, choosing to hold the meeting in Nairobi was significant: Nairobi hosted the Second World Conference of Women where the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies that influenced a new course in development assistance and outreach. A number of women who had been present during the Nairobi meeting, and who eventually assumed prominence in political and community life, were at hand to give support to this pan-African initiative.
Yassine Fall, the Chairperson of AWOMI reminded that what the women were doing in Nairobi is reclaiming their historical role of being the shakers and movers of change. In 1945 women in French West Africa began an action that began a wave that brought the end of colonialism. Prof. Ndri Assie Lumumba went back much further in history and told of an African princess warrior who led her people, men and women, to successfully resist Portuguese occupation of a region that now forms part of Ivory Coast. She was so influential that the Portuguese feared her even in death, and up till the present the rebels do not dare interrupt the dance lest they be cursed. Her exploits are revered and to date women perform ritual dances annually where she was hanged possibly to invoke her strength and spirit. Prof. Lumumba urged participants reclaim the resoluteness of their fore mothers that informed freedom movements against colonial occupation so as to save the continent from external aggression and internal strife dictated by corporate greed and egotism.
Prof Anyang Nyongo, the Kenyan Minister for Planning offered the keynote address. He posed immense challenges to independent African governments post independence by quoting disturbing facts. For example a recent study in Kenya reveals that women in Kenya spend 9 million hours searching for water. He attributed national trends in neglecting the needs of women to the global governance culture where there are very few women in decision-making positions in the UN and similar structures. Further, UN bodies working for women like UNIFEM are severely under funded yet heavily regulated limiting their ability to effectively implement their mandate.
Hon. Charity Ngilu former presidential aspirant and current Minister of Health in the Kenyan government noted that women have been shortchanged. Their voices have been drowned even in perceivable progressive movements like the Rainbow Movement, which brought about political change in Kenya. “It is difficult being the only Cabinet voice advocating for women in policy formulation and budget allocation”. Hon. Ngilu defied cabinet protocol and begged to speak as a woman. She questioned the wisdom of African governments investment decision- spending more on arms and protocol but very little in social services.
While a number of countries are engulfed in civil conflict, a majority are actually at war against HIV/AIDS. Yet, few governments are putting aside monies to deal with the tragedy. Therefore, national HIV/AIDS effort, as are reproductive health programmes, is largely sponsored by aid money and hardly addresses the real issues effecting women. A female condom, for example, which would allow women greater control over their sexual health, costs almost five times more what three male condoms cost! Yet she earns less than a man and is more vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS since women are twice likely to contract HIV/AIDS than are men in Africa. Such economics send out a strong message about whose health matters.
According to the Chairperson of AWOMI, Yassine Fall such contradictions are a result of misguided economic policies. A trained economist she strongly criticized African governments for accepting to implement recycled economic programmes applying neo-liberal economic frameworks that need no genius to comprehend that they are unworkable. “There is absolutely no difference between SAPs (Structural Adjustment programmes) of the eighties and the trendy HIPC (Highly Indebted Poorest Countries).
She questioned the prudence of some of the remedies put forward by IMF and WB and contrasted them to the miracle formulas of success stories like Ireland. “Who says economic miracles occur as a result of budget cuts to key sectors that support human development? Who told Ireland to cut its budget in health and education to prosper? No one. Instead the European Union invested in Ireland providing it with much needed capital, which was wisely used. But in Senegal economic reforms led to the closing down of state sponsored boarding schools which means that girls from rural communities will fail to attend secondary education and therefore have more time to study. Such policies threaten a whole generation of women from accessing quality education and the possibility for professional qualification.”
Hon Miriam Matembe, the fiery MP from Uganda, who is also in the Pan African Parliament, questioned the integrity of African leaders who sign important human rights instruments but fail to ratify and implement them. Hon. Matembe heads the Committee for Rules and Discipline in the Pan African Parliament and vowed to use her mandate to discipline African Heads of State who did not follow through with the promises they made not only to the African Union and other global fora but also to their populations.
“Since 1985 we agreed on a number of things. Thirty years later what has been done?” She pointed out. Hon. Matembe attributed stalemate in realizing women’s human rights to two main factors. She explained, “Generally there is lack of political will to implement commitments made freely by Head of States. But I ask, why spend millions on consultative processes and then fail to follow through with firm action on was agreed?” she questioned. In particular a number of African countries including Tanzania are yet to ratify the African Optional Protocol on the rights of women and there is a possibility the June extension will be missed. “Then there is the question of financing to realize the political commitments made which in fact defeats any good will. In this respect, development partners have not been forthcoming and thus the relevance of emphasizing MDG Goal 8”. She concluded.
Amina Ibrahim, the Director of Education for All in Nigeria cautioned against making Africa a showcase for poverty related research. Already Africa has been the subject of numerous pilot studies. Rather, what is needed presently is action. In particular she condemned external interference with her development agenda stressing the need to give Africa and Africans the space to develop a home grown development trajectory which is implemented at her own pace beyond the four to five year political mandate. She argued it is home grown solutions and not fractured PRSP programmes that are not grassroots based that will offer real progress to the continent.
Women were less concerned with blaming but took full responsibility by examining their complicity in electing to political office leaders who failed to remember women when in power. “We are the majority of the population in many countries. Although in Kenya more men are registered as voters, in actual fact more women vote than do men. Why do we keep voting in people who sell our futures and would rather play to the tunes of IMF and the WB but not of the masses that voted it into office?” asked a participant. For countries undergoing general elections in 2005 like Tanzania, the message was clear- mobilize and organize women and apply the political process to galvanize for change.
Colonialist and despotic leaders have lost Africa’s soul and its women folk are paying the price. “Why are people going hungry in a continent that is lush, a continent that has every conceivable wealth yet is classified as poor?” were some of the questions put before two hundred and fifty women from eighteen countries to appreciate the gravity and absurdity of their situation. The Millennium Declaration is an open space to dialogue for women’s rights. AWOMI offers an African platform to translate the Millennium Declaration and rights based approaches to local realities. Importantly, it offers African women new possibilities and a voice to resist an anti people, anti-development global political and economic agendas.
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4.- ONLINE IT-ENGLISH MULTIMEDIA COURSE FOR PRE-INTERMEDIATE AND INTERMEDIATE LEARNERS
In the frame of a Grundtvig Project – European Programs for Adult Education – a Hungarian vocational school has started to develop a multimedia online course for adult learners of IT English. The work is being done in a Central-European partnership, in which – besides three Hungarian post-secondary educational institutions – a Romanian, a Czech and a Bulgarian institute participate. The British partner provides expertise and the necessary native language skills – such as proofreading, production of some multimedia elements etc.
The task can be called pioneer due to several reasons, which I’m trying to discuss now.
i. Educational mode. The user enters a strictly controlled system in which each result/point of his performance is stored and analyzed by the software. His skills performance is followed statistically in a way that all his steps (tasks) in the course are defined by his previous achievements.
ii. Practice mode. The user can decide how he wants to progress in the material. He can choose according to media, skills, games and activities. No performance is stored, the user is free to browse and enjoy the course.
iii. Examination mode. The online course leader is entitled to follow the progress of each online user. If the user has chosen the educational mode there may be no need for any testing – as the software can provide all the part-time results. In case the user has selected the practice mode, he can decide to pass a kind of “test”. In this case the teacher can select among the different activities in order to monitor individual progress.
If you want to access further information about the project, you can access our home site: www.item-project.hu.
The online course will probably come out in 2006. It will be accompanied by a CD containing some of the media elements with high download capacity requirements as well as user instructions and technical information.
Kate Fazekas
Project coordinator
and course material developer
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The International Gender and Education Office (GEO) of ICAE creates
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