Closing the Digital Gap in African Higher Education
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In the past decades, information and communications technologies (ICTs) have fundamentally changed higher education and research, with the emergence of the World Wide Web—the greatest human-information construct in history—and the introduction of ICTs in teaching and learning, which spurred new interactive dynamiclearning methodologies and enabled cross-cultural and flexible collaborative interactions. ICTs have become essential for higher education, as an infrastructure, a channel for information and communications, and a tool that helps drive innovation.
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