6–7 Jul 2023
Amonoo Neizer IDL Conference Centre, KNUST
Africa/Accra timezone

Conference Sub-Themes and Topics

  • Accessibility: Learning in and through digital technologies

    • Transformative Online Pedagogies
    • New learning supported by new technologies: challenges and successes.
    • Old learning using new technologies.
    • Traditional (didactic, mimetic) and new (transformative, reflexive)
      pedagogies, with and without new technology.
    • Changing classroom discourse in the new media classroom
    • Peer to peer learning: learners as teachers
    • From hierarchical to lateral knowledge flows, teaching-learning relationships
    • Digital readings: discovery, navigation, discernment and critical literacy
    • New learning processes in new technological environments
    • Formative and summative assessment processes under E-learning
    • Evaluating technologies in learning
    • Recognizing learner differences and using them as a productive resource
    • Collaborative learning, distributed cognition and collective intelligence
    • Mixed modes of sociability: blending face to face, remote, synchronous and asynchronous learning
    • Learning management systems, tools and devices for educational uses.
    • Learning content and metadata standards
    • Designed for learning: new devices and new applications
    • Learning to use and adapt new technologies
    • Learning through new technologies
    • Remote teaching to schools without qualified teachers and training parents and other villages to support learning – low-cost robust solutions
    • Relevant resources for teaching and learning
    • Implications of freedom of digital content creation
    • Addressing information manipulation
    • New Skills for Living and Working in New Times
    • Education for Healthy Lives and Communities
  • Quality: Institutional reforms for effective e-learning

    • Open Pathways and New Credentials for Lifelong Learning
    • Blurring the boundaries of formal and informal learning
    • Old learning using new technologies.
    • Educational architectures: changing the spaces and times
    • Educational hierarchies: changing organizational structures
    • Student-teacher relations and discourse
    • Sources of knowledge authority: learning content, syllabi, standards
    • Schools as knowledge producing communities
    • Teachers as participant researchers and professional reflective practice
    • Educational challenges at national and community levels
    • Promoting equity and quality education in a sustainable manner
    • Promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
    • Management of education systems
    • Strategies to implement digital learning in and for schools, colleges, and universities
    • Cybersecurity principles, practices, and technologies
    • Education Leadership in changing times
    • Ethical issues in use of online material for teaching
    • Educational data mining and learning analytics
    • Institutional capacity for collection, analysis, and use of students' data
    • Using students' data to transform teaching processes
    • Low-cost solutions to assess the number of students enrolled, attending and present; teacher salaries, presence & absenteeism; planning of other resources
    • Disability issues in effective e-learning and evaluation
    • Content moderation in the E-Learning space
    • Acceptability and usefulness of E- Learning among students
  • Inclusivity: Social transformations of technologies and implications for learning

    • Promoting digital inclusion
    • Significant learning methods for the digitally excluded
    • Building sustainable models for humanitarian learning
    • Expanding infrastructure access to enhance digital learning
    • Affordable and quality access to the internet and to devices for all
    • Learning technologies for work, civics and personal life
    • Inclusive education challenges
    • Direction of knowledge flows
    • Beyond the traditional literacy basics
    • Expanding Access, Openness, and Flexibility
    • Promoting equity in virtual learning:
    • Addressing socio-economic origin, gender, minority status in effective teaching and learning
    • Developing students’ online Learning motivation, performance and behaviour
    • Assistive technologies to aid E- learning among persons with disabilities (PWDs)
    • Making E-Learning effective and affordable for PWDs
    • Adopting universal design for E-learning
    • Manoeuvrability of E-Learning space by PWDs
  • Sustainability: Emerging Business and Delivery Models for E-Learning for Changing Times

    • Special context for E-Learning in Ghana” with “Innovative E-Learning Designs for Student Success in Ghana and beyond
    • Public-private partnerships for scalable solutions to E-Learning challenges in Ghana
    • Localization of E-Learning products
    • Affordable learning management systems for E-Learning
    • Best practices of learning together with peers
    • Development of multilingual curricular
    • Reimagining Online Education for Better Futures
    • Effective methods to design learning solutions
    • Content co-creation approaches
    • Online programmes and creative learning
    • Successful practical curriculums for a practical education
    • Instructional design strategies and ethical considerations
    • Designing meanings in the new media: podcasts; digital video, and digital imaging
    • Relevant curriculum for all contexts
    • Usability and participatory design: beyond techno-centrism
    • Planning and delivering learning digitally
    • Teachers as curriculum developers