Kigali Institute of education (KIE) has held its first graduation of distant learning under Rwanda-India partnership where 50 students graduated in masters and PGDs.
Rwanda Leaning Center hosted by Kigali Institute of Education (KIE) successfully facilitated students in MBA IB, PGD IT, and Masters of Finance and Control using Tele-Education.
Tele-Education implies the use of electronic information technologies to provide education facilities to the students at remote locations.
All students graduated in this program as students of Amity University based in India under the Pan African eNetwork.
Tele-Education Coordinator Irenee Ndayambaje pointed out that the program with Amity University has been a weak up call to the use of ICT in educational purposes.
Ndayambaje further recommended on the program saying, “the secret of this accomplishment has been humility, acceptance to go through trials and errors but with mainly joint efforts and determination to achieve the stated goal.”
Commending the program Virginie Akimana who graduated in MBA International Business said, “E-learning started almost as a challenge to most of us. Before, it was a bit dark and many of us here were imagining remaining at work with no hope for further studies and promotion. But, it finally reached a level where everybody was taking pleasure in the learning environment. Video conference learning program made us as people from one global village whereby we had to discuss and share experience with students from other countries.”
The graduation ceremony was held simultaneously in five African countries including Uganda and Malawi among others all affiliated to Amity University in India through Video Conferencing.
An e-Learning center at KIE was established on 26th February 2009 (under PAN-African e-Network Project). KIE hosts the opportunity to provide e-Learning facilities using latest V-SAT technology.
The basic objective of the PAN-African e-Network is to help Africa in capacity building by way of imparting quality education to students from some of the best Indian Universities, Educational Institutions, and to provide tele-medicine services by way of on line medical consultation to the medical practitioners in the patient-end locations from Indian medical specialists.
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