A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives

The organization Helping Our People has been setup in 2011 by a team of education professionals working at the Virtual Centre for Innovative Technologies (VCILT) at the University of Mauritius. In 2009, the VCILT embarked on the SIDECAP project, funded by the EU-ACP in a consortium regrouping the Op...

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Autores principales:	Mohammad Issack Santally, Dorothy Cooshna-Naik, Noel Conruyt, Caroline Koa Wing
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Publicado:	Commonwealth of Learning 2015
Materias:	teacher education education technology ict for development community service Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1ed6ec21c3014fcc94b6e5b4921103582021-12-03T23:22:08ZA Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives2311-1550https://doaj.org/article/1ed6ec21c3014fcc94b6e5b4921103582015-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/23https://doaj.org/toc/2311-1550The organization Helping Our People has been setup in 2011 by a team of education professionals working at the Virtual Centre for Innovative Technologies (VCILT) at the University of Mauritius. In 2009, the VCILT embarked on the SIDECAP project, funded by the EU-ACP in a consortium regrouping the Open University of the UK, the University of the West Indies, the University of the South Pacific and the University of the Highlands and Islands. The work of the VCILT in the context of the SIDECAP project was essentially focused on the repurposing of Open Educational Resources to fit in the local Mauritian Context. At the same time, the VCILT received an internal grant to work on the development of interactive learning materials using the integration of text-to-speech technology in instructionally designed PowerPoint presentations. In this paper we report how the research activities of the two projects led to a series of development and applications in the real-world context for the continuous professional development of educators, the establishment of a social entity, an NGO called Helping Our People, a partnership with Microsoft Indian Ocean and French Pacific under the Partners in Learning Program and the Youth Empowerment Program to alleviate the suffering of those living in vulnerable conditions in the country.Mohammad Issack SantallyDorothy Cooshna-NaikNoel ConruytCaroline Koa WingCommonwealth of Learningarticleteacher educationeducation technologyict for developmentcommunity serviceTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning for Development, Vol 2, Iss 1 (2015)
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spellingShingle	teacher education education technology ict for development community service Theory and practice of education LB5-3640 Mohammad Issack Santally Dorothy Cooshna-Naik Noel Conruyt Caroline Koa Wing A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives
description	The organization Helping Our People has been setup in 2011 by a team of education professionals working at the Virtual Centre for Innovative Technologies (VCILT) at the University of Mauritius. In 2009, the VCILT embarked on the SIDECAP project, funded by the EU-ACP in a consortium regrouping the Open University of the UK, the University of the West Indies, the University of the South Pacific and the University of the Highlands and Islands. The work of the VCILT in the context of the SIDECAP project was essentially focused on the repurposing of Open Educational Resources to fit in the local Mauritian Context. At the same time, the VCILT received an internal grant to work on the development of interactive learning materials using the integration of text-to-speech technology in instructionally designed PowerPoint presentations. In this paper we report how the research activities of the two projects led to a series of development and applications in the real-world context for the continuous professional development of educators, the establishment of a social entity, an NGO called Helping Our People, a partnership with Microsoft Indian Ocean and French Pacific under the Partners in Learning Program and the Youth Empowerment Program to alleviate the suffering of those living in vulnerable conditions in the country.
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author	Mohammad Issack Santally Dorothy Cooshna-Naik Noel Conruyt Caroline Koa Wing
author_facet	Mohammad Issack Santally Dorothy Cooshna-Naik Noel Conruyt Caroline Koa Wing
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title	A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives
title_short	A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives
title_full	A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives
title_fullStr	A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives
title_full_unstemmed	A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives
title_sort	social partnership model to promote educators’ development in mauritius through formal and informal capacity-building initiatives
publisher	Commonwealth of Learning
publishDate	2015
url	https://doaj.org/article/1ed6ec21c3014fcc94b6e5b492110358
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A Social Partnership Model to promote Educators’ Development in Mauritius through Formal and Informal Capacity-building Initiatives

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