The KENET web conference system is an online service for organizing collaborative activities such as webinars, classes, webcasts and meetings. KENET launched the remote teaching pilot project in 2017. The remote teaching project was aimed at exploring the possibility of using the KENET web conferencing for remote teaching to reduce the cost of teaching multiple classes. Three universities namely Daystar University, Catholic University of East Africa and the University of Nairobi are participating in the project.

KENET equipped each of the classrooms with web conferencing equipment such as microphones, cameras and video display units (Television and projectors) at an approximate total cost of Eleven Million (11,000,000.00) Kenya Shillings. Eight classes in the participating universities were equipped and the cost of equipping each of the classes was approximately One Million, Four Hundred thousand (1,400,000.00) Kenya Shillings. Using the KENET web conferencing system, lectures in the participating universities are now able to teach more than one class simultaneously. At the end of the project, participating faculty will write a report on the effectiveness of the use of the technology for both teaching and learning. A cost benefit analysis report will also be prepared to top management.

https://www.kenet.or.ke/remote-teaching

“ I have had a chance to interact with the Remote Teaching Program since the beginning of August semester 2017 for our Monitoring and Evaluation class. The experience has been quite helpful considering we were evening class students and most of us have to juggle competing needs such as work and families. The Remote Teaching Program comes in handy for us as it perfectly integrates social media (WhatsApp), online learning platform, technology and on-site sessions to enable students to continually access colleagues and the instructor. I have even attended classes from outside the country and have classmates who have been participating from outside Nairobi.”