The Gradual Success of E-Learning in Schools

mso-color-alt:windowtext">The Ministry of Education and Sports in Uganda, is
currently implementing a programme for the integration of Information Communication
Technology (ICT) in Education. The programme has made significant impact in the
education sector including computer studies being declared compulsory subject
in Uganda thus being the only country in Africa with such a policy. Its
holistic nature and sustainability has attracted many others to benchmark with
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mso-color-alt:windowtext">The Ministry since 2012,
introduced ICT as a subsidiary subject at the Advanced Level of Education in
preparation of the youth into attaining the vital ICT skills before joining universities
and/or tertiary institutions. Before that, computer education was mainly done
in urban schools and computer studies as a subject stopped in S.4 (UCE). Others
had to train in private computer centres, scattered in many towns and the
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The revitalization of the
education system 2022, with the new lower secondary school curriculum, being
introduced, also provides the pivot to enhancing innovation, students’
discoveries and projects which ICT forms a formidable portion. computer
education has been standardized through secondary school sub sector, from S.1
up to S.6. Our young people now have the opportunity to acquire skills and
remain globally competitive. In the same way, the education system has also
since turn very digitally competitive; the ICT in education is currently
promoting not only the ICT Knowledge but the the practical application of the
knowledge into the day to day use and conversation by the youth, peer
educators/instructors/teachers and as well as the academia in the research
world.

The growth in the ICT has not
only boosted the academia but also rapid access to information, communications,
economic growth (mobile phones-more than 50% population, at least 22 million
Ugandans own a mobile phone, with 33 per cent accessing the internet through
mobile devices, such as computers, tablets, iPads and smartphones) and used in
research, teaching and learning, among others.