Innovation in Education offering free education to African refugees: A Case Study from Argentina

7 pages•Published: February 12, 2020

Abstract

This paper will provide details of implementing the Kakuma Project in different schools in Argentina. The Kakuma Project offers free education to African refugees via Skype. Students from Argentina communicated online with students in a refugee camp in Kenya. Argentine and African students are the center of the learning process by creating content and interacting with each other. The author of this paper has been selected as a Kakuma Project Ambassador in 2016. The objective of this paper is to describe the process of implementing a global student-centered collaborative project called Kakuma Project using technology to enhance the learning process.

Keyphrases: innovation, kakuma project, online teaching

In: Claudia Urrea (editor). Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference, vol 3, pages 251-257.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/Tj9W
	https://doi.org/10.29007/qt3h

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{LINC2019:Innovation_Education_offering_free,
  author    = {Jennifer Verschoor},
  title     = {Innovation in Education offering free education to African refugees:  A Case Study from Argentina},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference},
  editor    = {Claudia Urrea},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Education Science},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2306},
  url       = {/publications/paper/Tj9W},
  doi       = {10.29007/qt3h},
  pages     = {251-257},
  year      = {2020}}

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