For African Students, E-learning Fails To Make The Grade
A pupil at the Winnie Mandela Secondary School raises her hand during roll call as classes resume in the Tembisa township, Ekurhuleni, on June 8, 2020. – Grade 7 and grade 12 pupils in South Africa began returning to classrooms on June 8, 2020 after two and a half months of home-schooling to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Michele Spatari / AFP.
But the shift to e-learning has been particularly tough in sub-Saharan Africa, where mobile phones are the primary means of internet access, data connections are often poor and expensive and family homes are crowded. Desperate for space and quiet, Mohale resorted to studying at night for her qualification in actuarial science, but still had to battle with internet access.“Now my worry is that I lost out on two months,” she said. “I’m going to have to make sure that I catch up somehow.”– Scant online resources –
Already some struggling families had made sacrifices to buy smart phones — not a priority at a time when many were worried about their future. “Our institution assured us that online lectures would be organised but this rarely happened,” said Wiltort.In neighbouring Chad, human sciences student Moussa Nestor feared he had lost an entire year.
“At least one positive impact that we are seeing is that some students and lecturers who were not technologically savvy are starting to become so,” Kuagbedzi said from the association’s headquarters in Ghana.The head of Uganda’s higher education regulating body, Mary Okwakol, said that adapting to coronavirus had been a “learning curve”.
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