Higher Education Programs in Morocco

Higher Education Programs

CVM: The Moroccan Virtual Campus which was launched in 2002. Its mission is to build and promote synergies between the various elearning projects within Moroccan universities, enable students to choose their study location and time, enforce the educational content quality, offer scalability to teaching and learning (individualised programmes), facilitate knowledge access, and raise the degree of responsibility of students.

CATT: Computer Assisted Teacher Training was implemented in 1999 with the support of the USAID, with the objectives of equipping CFIs, creating networks of seven CFIs, training 70 instructors and 490 teachers, and developing a community Web site.(www.ibtekar.edu.mc)

Collaborative Learning Programmes

CIVICS: Community Voices Collaborative Solutions is a project for English-language educators from Algeria, Egypt, India, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tunisia who are participating in iEARN projects that focus on issues of civic education. The iEARN CIVICS project:
• Provides a model for civic education and content-based English as a second/foreign language using iEARN professional development resources and methodologies
• Integrates educators in the Near East, North Africa and South Asia into iEARN projects
• Creates safe and nurturing environments for students and educators in these regions to address civic education issues relevant to their communities.

BRIDGE: The goals of the BRIDGE (Building Respect through Internet Dialogue and Global Education) project are to:
• Generate dynamic and meaningful dialogue between educators and students in the US and countries with large Muslim populations that lead to long-term personal and institutional ties and continuing face-to-face exchanges to promote mutual understanding.
• Enhance the use of the Internet in schools in developing educational materials and methodologies that will benefit schools in teaching language, geography, social studies, and culture.
• Develop tools and a climate for discussing differing points of view, overcoming suspicion and avoiding and resolving conflict; to promote greater awareness from parents and community members about the benefits of Internet-based collaboration and face-to-face exchanges of educators and students
• Generate tangible products as an outcome of the collaborative projects. (www.thebridgeproject.org)
ALEF ALEF (Advancing Learning and Employability for a Better Future) is an educational project funded by the USAID American Agency for International Development. ALEF is a three-year project managed by a consortium of organisations and lead by the Academy for Educational Development (AED). (www.alef.ma) MAF MAF (Mtandao Afrika) is a collaborative programme for young people to form teams and develop educational Web sites. It is implemented in collaboration with SchoolNet Africa and AGENT
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