Title:	ONLINE TEACHING IN A UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT WITH LIMITED INTERNET ACCESS: CASE OF CONGOLESE UNIVERSITIES
Author(s):	Efrem Mbaki Luzayisu
ISBN:	978-989-8704-50-4
Editors:	Piet Kommers, Mário Macedo, Guo Chao Peng and Ajith Abraham
Year:	2023
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Online Teaching, Educational Scenario, COVID-19, Virtual Classroom, Strategies, Web Campus, Limited Internet
Type:	Full
First Page:	41
Last Page:	52
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	For the past couple of decades, online learning and working remotely has become a daily reality in western countries. Governments, companies and universities continuously invest in equipment and software that will help promote and better facilitate working and learning remotely.With COVID-19 pandemic, working and learning remotely became indispensable as traveling was restricted to stop the spread of the virus. In developing countries such as Democratic Republic of the Congo, (DRC), realities are unfortunately different. There is a strong mistrust of online learning. In addition, authorities tarry to invest in educational infrastructures regardless of the fast-increasing number of students. However, the global health crisis of 2019 as well as other factors has shifted the mindsets of many Congolese authority figures in regards to online learning. The purpose of this reflection is to examine these developments before proposing some avenues for, on one hand, safeguarding the achievements and, on the other hand, working to improve these avenues. Ultimately, the main idea would be to examine the experiment conducted in four DRC's universities in order to build a solution, the cheapest possible, that could be applied to sub-Saharan Africa nations' universities where the education's condition is similar to DRC's. Internationally, in a context where the Internet is almost everywhere continuously, such a study might seem of little use. However, in a poorly connected environment, it is a challenge to implement a web campus.
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