Addressing digital divide issues in a partially online masters programme in Africa: the NetTel@Africa experience

This paper explores how NetTel@Africa, a network for capacity building has addressed access, acceptance and delivery barriers in crafting an e-learning Masters degree programme. Building on network principles, one key success factor is to link open source software development, the KEWL project at th...

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Main Authors: Keats, D.W., Beebe, M.A.
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