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Introduction
Hi,My name is Elizabeth Okwisa Mbasu. I work for [http://www.kie.ac.ke/. Kenya Institute of Education (KIE)]. KIE is the national Curriculum Development and Research Centre. I am Assistant Director and particularly incharge of Open and Distance Education. My functions are under the division of electronic and emerging media.

Currently,I am involved with a number of activities: I coordinate and participate in the development of free open education digital content for primary science and Mathematics under a project called 'TAFAKARI', a Kiswahili translation from the original mother project; 'Cabanga' - Mindset - South Africa. I develop Instructional designs from which I derive classroom lessons for secondary school computer studies. So far, I have developed Form one and two digital content. I also participate in coordinating development of the other 12 subjects which comprise mathematics, sciences and humanities for secondary schools.These are all open education resources. Out of interest, I am in the process of trying out the design and instruction of an e-learning course for teacher educators for the 19 primary Teacher Colleges in Kenya. So far, I have done the introduction of the course. Previuosly, and on behalf of the institute, I have been training primary, secondary and tac tutors on how to integrate HIV and AIDs and Lifeskills education. This is a MInistry of Education project for UNICEF. I have trained Secondary school teachers to integrate human rights education in the school curriculum. My institute customised 'chisimba' LMS which is currently in use as 'Elimika'. 'elimika is a Kiswahili word which means 'increase your knowledge' The Institute embraces the use of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open Education Resources through the Elimika project, to cut down on costs. There are other activities that I am involved with. Since 1999, I have been an instructional designer for the national traditional face-to- face curriculum for teacher educators. During this period, I designed and developed the following curricular:


 * 1) The Kenya Seafarers ICT Curriculum
 * 2) ICT for Primary Teacher Education
 * 3) Primary Teacher Education science.


 * i Primary Teacher Education Colleges in Kenya
 * ii Primary Teacher Education for kakuma refugee campNew Wiki Page

Cross cutting issues.

I acted in the capacity of a lead consultant for Human rights for the Kenya Human Rights Commission.

During 1986-1999,I was a lecturer training teachers and supervising teaching practice for 12 years. I worked for the Ministry of Education under [|Teachers Service Commission] I Learnt about the concept of ODL in 2004 during the 3rd Pan Commonwealth Forum PCF3. Since then, I trained in International Computer Driving License at Institute of Advanced Technology (IAT) in 2004 and pursued ‘Master of Flexible Learning’ as a web student with (USQ) Jan. 2008. These and the work experiences beefed up my ICT skills and a passion for ODL. Have a look at my Pictures== Professional Interest ==


 * Instructional Design
 * ICT
 * Open and Distance Learning
 * The marginalized in society such as children and women

Things I am proud of

 * 1) My collaborative webquest that is already an open resource
 * 2) 17th – 23th June 2001: Planned, organized and facilitated “The Stem Hotel Teacher Education Curriculum perspectives workshop” for all Teacher College Deans of Curriculum and heads of Departments in Kenya.The recommendations of which were used to review the Primary Teacher Education curriculum (2004).
 * 3) 2004: Designed and developed a trainer’s Information and Communications Technology handbook for teacher educators for primary colleges in Kenya.
 * 4) Ability to Design Instruction for Flexible learners using suitable and appropriate technologies to mediate learning.
 * 5) Ability to teach online

Reasons for joining wikiEducator Community of Practice
My main reasons for wanting to contribute to WikiEducator is to be part of this largest world on-line community of practice transforming the world from the culture of using locked up static, less quality resources for teaching and learning towards an open culture of freely sharing updated more quality,sustainable and scalable resources. My projects


 * L4C27
 * L4C37
 * L4C38

My Credentials
I have a Master of Flexible Learning from University of Southern Queensland (USQ). I used on-line mode of delivery for my study. This means that I was a web student.

Among my favourite tunes is Listen to my Favourite Tune|bridge over troubled water.mp3|Click here to play

Contacts
Elizabeth Okwisa Mbasu Kenya Institute of Education P.O. BOX 30231 Nairobi Kenya email embasu@yahoo.com Cell phone: 254 0720 89 80 97

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=1290966497181797456

Booklist

Table

Feedback and Notes from Members

 * Congratulations! You have done an incredible job. I am looking forward to seeing your project develop. Please feel free to ask for help. --Nellie Deutsch 07:55, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Dear Elizabeth. Good to see you have put lots of information on your personal page. Its a neat place to try out things and I like to keep all my wikieducator links here also, so they can be found easily when I login to Wikieducator - Michael (Mverhaart 10:38, 1 May 2011 (UTC))

WikiEducator News &amp; Events
WiZiQ is an on line live class. Register on WiZiQ.com by clicking on the link. It is Free.

Notes from my Wikineighbours

 * Jambo. Great to see you in the tutorial, Elizabeth, and to see your user page. Do you have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach? If so, what are your concerns? If not, how does an open authoring approach contribute to high quality learning materials. --Phil Bartle 05:45, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Elizabeth, I'm your WikiNeighbour. Welcome to the EL4C24 5-day advanced Workshop. Please let me know if I can be of any help to you. Gladys Gahona., Junior Facilitator.--chela5808 05:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

It has been nice meeting you in the wikeducator hope we shall get to know more of each other--parametrs 17:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)


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