The History of Distance Education in West Africa; The Timbuktian Scholarship - A Critical Appraisal.

Obilade, Titilola T.

The History of Distance Education in West Africa; The Timbuktian Scholarship - A Critical Appraisal.

dc.contributor.author	Obilade, Titilola T.	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-03-23T22:16:09Z	en
dc.date.available	2015-03-23T22:16:09Z	en
dc.date.issued	2013-02	en
dc.description	Presented at the 2013 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, 6th -8th February, 2013.	en
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of the paper discussed in this poster was to trace the historical background of Distance Education (DE) in West Africa and to examine the challenges. The history of DE in West Africa can be traced back to the 12th Century. The Timbuktian scholarship started as far back as the 12th Century and included jurisprudence, Islamic education as well as grammar (Saad, 1983). It also included Astonomy, Government, Philosophy and Ethics. In the 12th Century, the challenges of DE was the danger of attack from bandits, the attack from hostile empires, the rigorous hand copying of hundreds of thousands of manuscripts and the extended months it took for learning materials to arrive. Today, the challenges of distance education in West Africa are the prohibitive cost of hardware, the lack of technical support and the language factor.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Obilade, T. T. (2013, February). The History of Distance Education in West Africa; The Timbuktian Scholarship - A Critical Appraisal. Poster presented at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, Blacksburg, VA.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51636	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Distance education	en
dc.subject	Instructional technology	en
dc.subject	West Africa	en
dc.subject	West African history	en
dc.subject	Timbuktu	en
dc.title	The History of Distance Education in West Africa; The Timbuktian Scholarship - A Critical Appraisal.	en
dc.type	Poster	en
dc.type	Conference proceeding	en