Digitising African Higher Education: Views and Ideas to Post Covid-19 Paradigms of the New Normal

Abstract

Higher Education lags far behind other industries in the adoption of computer technology, especially in Africa due to the digital gap, wrong priorities and inadequate or unimplemented policies. Its desirable that eLearning evolves in concert with the Industrial Revolutions and that some innovations are directed towards solving learning challenges, many of which were illuminated upon by the Covid-19 lockdown. Short of innovations, the digital gap forces Africa to adopt learning into technology. Thus technology becomes the researched problem in Africa. This is exacerbated by the African already formidable challenge in providing learning as a basic human right that an extraordinary effort is required to ‘normalise’ computer technology in educational institutions, in African developing countries such as Uganda.

This paper is a discussion of some activities, suggestions and views relating to Higher Education for what is dubbed the new normal.