Multicultural Popular Education Centre (MKFC) Stockholm College and Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) have started a three months e-teacher training to equip teacher training colleges with ICT skills based on research and modern learning processes.
The long-term goal is to equip Rwandan teachers with knowledge and capacity to tutor their online education supported by ICT tools.
Marja Riitta Ritanoro MKFC Chief Executive Officer noted after the training the teachers will follow extra trainings online.
She insisted that online participation expands the classroom and learning environment and disseminates innovative ideas for school management, to teachers, parent groups and students.
James Rutebuka the coordinator of the e-learning based on ICT, highlighted that the program aims to create the use of global and local avenues for social interaction, teamwork and e-learning.
“This program is essential and would facilitate teachers to conduct their work effectively especially those who teach computer courses,” he added,” the One Laptop per Child for instance is not well implement since we don’t have adequate teachers who are conversant with basic computer skills,” he remarked.
Ritanoro was quick to highlight that competent teachers would encourage students to use internet for further research. “Google for instance is a good search engine which students can acquire vast knowledge provided by several websites,” she remarked.
In Rwanda the use of ICT is dominating the service industry, yet it’s impact is not well seen in the education sector partly because not all teachers are competent to utilize the technology, hence training them on similar courses would improve the situation.
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