HIVAIDS Portal/LearnShare HIVAIDS Africa/Messaging

AMARC Leadership

 * AMARC leadership (Ivory Coast) - in partnering with COL, IAS and EcoNews for this important initiative in the Ivory Coast
 * Bridging / Networking - groundbreaking initiative to bring two(2) communities together, without a history of sharing and involvement.
 * workshop is an activity within a process (i.e., workshop is a tangible reference point for pre-workshop, and post-workshop activities)

IAS Participation & Contribution

 * Leads up to AIDS 2010 conference in Vienna (International AIDS Society)

COL - Advocacy for Effective Learning Programmes)

 * Wiki is a repository for open education resources, materials, good practices
 * Collaboration happens in many forms, and at many levels - online and offline
 * Leads up to Pan-Commonwealth Forum (PCF-6), in Cochin, Kerala, India, 2010
 * Designing Effective Learning Programs (DELP) is a skill and outcome
 * Tangible outputs on wiki
 * number of organizations
 * size of community of practice
 * numbers of materials
 * number of learning programs, plans, etc.


 * Traditional ODL vs. Modern ODL - distinctions
 * Traditional ODL - full courses, units
 * Modern ODL - learning activities, modules (i.e., developing learning activities around a specific piece of content)

Participants

 * Roles - different people have different and valuable perspectives

Criteria for Attendees - Workshop Participation
The criteria we have discussed are community radio stations that are


 * Broadcasting in geographic areas where AIDS is a issue and HIV infection rates are high
 * Committed to health programming; open to new approaches to “educational” programming; willing to start new or improve existing health-HIV/AIDS programmes through the LearnShare process
 * Open to collaborative approaches, especially working with AIDS counterparts, in developing and running learning programmes
 * Willing to participate in an ongoing process of programme development about HIV/AIDS: online, in person and through other forms of networking and exchange (phone, email, content sharing, etc.)
 * Willing to participate in the Ivory Coast workshop and conference
 * Track record for follow-through