A SADC wide professional development project to enhance competence of teachers in the SADC region for integrating ICT in pedagogically meaningful ways in schools and educational institutions. The project is based on the idea of networking local teacher groups set up to serve as so-called change laboratories for developing the professional competence of teachers to utilise ICT in their profession. The workshop is arranged to facilitate planning similar change laboratories to be set up and linked with each other into a teacher support network with VCILT as a support hub in the University of Mauritius.

http://vcampus2.uom.ac.mu/mediawiki

The Distributed Change Lab

• Open Educational Resources for Open & Online Learning (OER4OOL)
• Effective Use, Clustering and Interoperability of OER
• Open Source C3MS (Community, Content, Collaboration Management Systems )
• Free Learning Open Source Software ( FLOSS )

Integrated pedagogical scripting :

• Integrated Scripting for CSCL
• Innovative pedagogical scripting
• Mobile Learning ( mLearning ) pedagogical scenarios
• Story Boarding for Computer - Mediated Learning

• Innovative Learning & Knowledge Communities
• Writing to learn, links between language and learning
• Gaming to learn

11-14 June 2007

http://icool.uom.ac.mu/

ICOOL 2005
“a Learning, Information Technology and Communication Hub of the Indian Ocean (a litchi from Mauritius)”, in the context of the 8th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education WCCE 2005, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) [4-7 July 2005].

http://icool.uom.ac.mu/2005/

ICOOL 2003
in December 2003, the VCILT organized the first International Conference on Open and Online Learning (ICOOL 2003), first of its kind in the region, with the support of the Hewlett Foundation. In line with UNESCO ongoing efforts to bridge the gap between information rich and poor countries and thus contribute to social changes and improvements, ICOOL served as a multi-disciplinary forum for discussion and reflection on activities and projects related to technology-enhanced learning, with a particular emphasis on the quality and availability of education. 150 researchers and practitioners from 19 countries participated actively in contributing to put Mauritius on the map, as a pioneering provider of new approaches and partnerships for CMCP and TEE in the indian ocean region.

http://icool.uom.ac.mu/2003/index

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Research Week 2007 is a novel initiative of the University of Mauritius to promote Research & Development activities related to national development and to create an innovation culture crucial for the future economic success of the country.

The theme for this first edition, ‘Research & Innovations Challenges’, reflects the unflinching desire to provide an interactive platform for the wider research community for the dissemination of research findings to relevant stakeholders, and also for promoting collaborations and synergies...

http://vcampus.uom.ac.mu/uomrw/

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WITFOR

WITFOR 2005

WITFOR 2005 Education Commission Project to enhance ICT competence of teachers in developing countries; the rationale for the WITFOR Education commission work is to mobilise avant-garde SADC region teachers and teacher educators to become change agents in improving the professional competence of the teacher communities, the quality of teaching and the learning environments of their students and themselves through a SADC-wide professional development project. The project aims at establishing a SADC-wide teacher support network and enhancing professional development of secondary school teachers and teacher educators through the network of so-called change laboratories.

The Distributed Change Lab

WITFOR 2007: ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY

Recognizing the developmental opportunities offered by digital technologies and the need for developing countries and developed countries to collaborate to exploit such opportunities, the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) 2007 is organized by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and hosted by the Federal Government of Ethiopia, in cooperation with the Ethiopian ICT Development Agency (EICTDA), the Ethiopian Information Technology Professional Association (EITPA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

http://www.witfor.org

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BOOT CAMP

The first Bootcamp was held in Mauritius in August 2006. Course-writers from 13 participating countries Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Malta, Mauritius, Namibia, Samoa, Seychelles, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Swaziland, Tonga and Vanuatu convened to start writing on two topics: Entrepreneurship and Tourism. The starting point for creating these Open Educational Resources (OERs) was existing available course content which will be made available via the Internet. While the first project involves the development of learning content in entrepreneurship and tourism, a list of priority areas has been agreed. The Second Bootcamp will be held in Singapore (12-30 March 2007) with 24 countries participating. This second Bootcamp will have course writers in the field of professional development of educators convene and contribute to building of more OERs on the Wikieducator.

Mauritius Boot Camp

Singapore Boot Camp

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OTHERS

Society for Free Radical Research

The Society for Free Radical Research has its headquarters at the University of Mauritius. Following the formal adoption of SFRR-Africa as the fifth regional wing of the Society for Free Radical Research International in Kyoto ( in year 2000), SFRR-Africa held its 2nd International Conference at the University of Mauritius. The 3rd Annual Meeting was held in October 2002 in South Africa, the 4th International conference in Zimbabwe in October 2003, the 5th International conference in St Lucia in July 2004 and the 6th International conference in Morrocco in September 2005. We are looking forward to organising the 7th International conference in Mauritius in July 2007...

http://vcampus.uom.ac.mu/sfinal/sf_home.htm