A Brief Report on Current Educational Innovations

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy - Media Pedagogy, grade: 80, The Open University (School of Educational Technology), course: Openness and Innovation in e-Learning, language: English, abstract: This short report is developed for a child-focused organization that provides a range of training in the humanitarian refugee settings. The organization is in charge of child protection, ensuring children's physical, social, emotional and cognitive development through different psychosocial activities and life skills sessions held in traditional classrooms. Furthermore, the organization uses the same approach to build and strengthen the capacity of partner organization staffs, local authorities and community structures. The organization is currently planning to run tablet-based sessions in different centers for children and adolescents, an approach that supports different new technologies and pedagogies, described as eLearning innovations. The emergence of the knowledge society and the knowledge-based economy marks a new era for education and training. In response to the growing global demand for higher education, recent studies highlight that there is remarkable increasing use of technology in education. As eLearning evolves, different education institutions and training providers are gradually forced to adopt very recent innovations that meet the current education needs according to their spheres.

Dr. Sixbert Sangwa is a Rwandan Christian minister, Academic, Kingdom Entrepreneur and Non-profit Practitioner. Sixbert has extensive experience in managing economic empowerment projects in the humanitarian and development arena, through national and international NGOs. He leveraged his strategic and business development skills to become a caring SME consultant and is known as the founder of various entrepreneurial initiatives. Today, Sixbert has remained instrumental to higher education in the fields of business, entrepreneurship and theology. He believes that the future of employment belongs to social entrepreneurship. However, he is concerned about the disconnect between faith and business, hence his continental mission to integrate faith and work. Sixbert's education is twofold. His first secular degree is in Rural Development and Agribusiness. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Master of Arts in Online and Distance Education as well as a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) and a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Branding. His religious track yielded him a Bachelor of Divinity, a Master of Ministry, a Master of Theological Studies, a Doctor of Chritsian Business Administration and a PhD in Religious Studies. As his research interests rest on general business management, open education and Christian affairs on the one hand, he is also open to offering advisory support in the same areas.