The E-Learning Competence Center (ELCC) is organizing a one-day-symposium as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week on November 7th at the Smart Village Convention Center to showcase and present the possible uses of the new and most promising Web 2.0 and Social Media networks to empower entrepreneurs.
ELCC signs agreement with a nonprofit deaf and hard-of-hearing organization to train the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing on IT Essentials and Entrepreneurship.
ELCC showcased its award-winning National Delivery Network of 700 e-Learning centers that reaches out to marginalized and hard-to-reach learners in all Egypt’s governorates and isolated areas.
The symposium gathered entrepreneurs, CEOs, venture capitalists and non-profits from all over the world to explore means to promote entrepreneurship in the region.
The award recognizes ELCC’s efforts in establishing the largest Cisco Academies e-Learning delivery network in Africa and the Middle East.
The symposium, organized by ELCC, brings together IT innovators, leading educators and technology and creativity entrepreneurs from all over to share a wealth of knowledge and experience on how to leverage education technology (e-Learning, Online Learning, Video Learning, Mobile Learning) and Social Media / Web 2.0 to educate, train, connect, inspire and empower entrepreneurs and the business community in the region. The symposium features a combination of hands-on workshops, interactive sessions, panel discussions and keynotes from thought leaders.
ELCC participated in the Entrepreneurship First Symposium held in support of the U.S. Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. ELCC signed an MoU with Knowledge Horizon on the sidelines of the symposium to disseminate e-Learning and leverage its technology for the delivering of scalable entrepreneurship education in the region.
ELCC participated in two sessions of the forum: “Assessing the role of the participative web in youth empowerment“ and "The challenges of being literate to foster participatory cultures".
The workshop comes within ELCC’s mandate as Cisco Entrepreneur Institute regional academy to create a wide-reach delivery network of local institutes for the Institute. The training workshop trained facilitators to deliver the e-learning courses which are directed at SMEs.
e-Learning revolution in the world today is eminent and its ability to erase geographical boundaries. Online education trends are changing vividly to a degree significant enough to call for a new name; e-Learning 2.0.
Working closely with Cisco and Accenture, ELCC met the Egyptian Education initiative’s goal of training 3,000 entrepreneurs on IT related business essentials skills.
Cisco and E-Learning Competence Center turn to Accenture to develop learning curriculum in support of Egypt’s ground-breaking educational reform.
The EEI has been launched in order to improve education and learning in Egypt using ICT; it is built on the PPP model.