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Why we should embrace Open Educational Resources (OER)

Posted on: 23 October 2018
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Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are open to the public. This implies that these materials can be legally accessed, copied, used and re-shared by anyone. OERs range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation. OER can therefore be termed as a global movement in education spanning many countries and initiatives to ensure that education is a right and not a privilege.

KENET Hosts Open Science Workshop

The Open Science Workshop hosted at KENET successfully concluded on August 10, 2018. The two-day workshop organized by the Bioinformatics Network led by Dr.

Half-day ICIPE researchers Forum Shed Light on KENET Research Services

The KENET research services team had an opportunity to meet with researchers from International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) to better understand their research infrastructure needs and create awareness of some of KENET research services.

Advances in Research and Computing Services at KENET

The pool of researchers in Kenya is increasing both in digit and diversity. Although the largest research output in the country between 2016- 2017 was in the field of medicine, research in other fields is on the rise such as econometrics, bioinformatics, computational biology/chemistry, engineering, physics and data science. Big Data (extreme large data sets) calls for more computing power for data analysis and storage.

Capacity Building at Kenya Wildlife Service Training Institute

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is one of the most important public institutions in Kenya. One of the apparent reasons is because the wildlife-oriented tourism sector is among the top contributors to the Country’s GDP. Cognizant of this, the Kenya Wildlife Training Institute (KWSTI) provides special training in Natural Resource Management and Tourism Development.

KENET Makes Available Domain Registration Portal for Members

Member Institutions can now register their domain name directly through the KENET portal. On February 22, 2018, KENET launched the DOT KE (.ke) domain registration portal, https://domain.kenet.or.ke/. Any member of the KENET community can register and pay online for any DOT KE domains of their choice including the newly launched second level DOT KE domains (e.g. www.mycampus.ac.ke).

Why Institutions Should Embrace Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is one of the digital platforms that more Institutions should embrace. Whether in the education or research field, cloud computing progresses the very fundamentals of learning and research. More choice in education in terms of diversity of courses and method of instruction is being offered in many Kenyan Universities. However, cloud computing is being adopted at a sluggish pace, yet the advantages of cloud computing in education and research is copious.

KENET presentation at KEFRI’s 5th pre Scientific Conference meetup

KEFRI extended an invitation to KENET Executive Director to be a guest presenter at a meeting on the eve of their 5^th Scientific Conference. The meeting was held on the 16^th of April 2018 at the KEFRI headquarters in Muguga.

Researchers Half Day workshop at KALRO

On April 16 2018, over 150 researchers convened at the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)-Nairobi for a half-day forum to discuss how research can be progressed using ICT. The event, organized by KALRO and KENET sought to engage researchers in bid to promote research using Information Technologies. KENET has long worked with researchers as one of its mandates is to enhance research using ICTs. Research in the country has been enhanced by the array of research services and infrastructures provided by KENET.

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