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Elizabeth Mbasu
Website:	my bio and my cv [my blog
Employer:	Kenya Institute of Education (KIE)
Occupation:	Instructional Designer & Trainer
Country:	Kenya
	email
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Today is: 21, November 2009

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Introduction

My name is Elizabeth Okwisa Mbasu. I work for Kenya Institute of Education (KIE). KIE is the national Curriculum Development and Research Centre. I am Assistant Director and particularly incharge of Open Learning and Distance Education.

Currently I am inolved with developing ditital content for primary science and Maths and for eleven subjects in secondary schools.I am also developing an e-learning course for teacher educators. My institute adopted GC21 LMS which is currently in use. There are other activities that I am involved with. On behalf of the institute, I have been a facilitator of HIV and AIDS and Life Skills Education for UNICEF.My main role has been design and develop materials and train teachers and field officers to integrate HIV and AIDS in the school curriculum. Between December and January 2009 I will participate in training teachers and field officers on how to implement the newly developed lifeskills Education curriculum.

Since 1999, I have been an instructional designer for the national traditional face-to- face curriculum. During this period, I designed and developed the following curricular:

1. The Kenya Seafarers ICT Curriculum
2. ICT for Primary Teacher Education
3. Primary Teacher Education Science

i Primary Teacher Education Colleges in Kenya

ii Primary Teacher Education for kakuma refugee camp

3. Cross cutting issues.

I acted in the capacity of a lead consultant for Human rights for the Kenya Human Rights Commission.

During 1986-1999,I was a lecturer training teachers and supervising teaching practice for 12 years. I worked for [Service Commission]. I Learnt about the concept of ODL in 2004 during the 3rd Pan Commonwealth Forum PCF3. Since then, I trained in International Computer Driving License at Institute of Advanced Technology (IAT) in 2004 and pursued ‘Master of Flexible Learning’ as a web student with [1] (USQ) Jan. 2008. These and the work experiences beefed up my ICT skills and a passion for ODL.

Professional Interest

• Instructional Design
• ICT
• Open and Distance Learning
• The marginalized in society such as children and women

Things I am proud of

1. My collaborative webquest that is already an open resource
2. 17th – 23th June 2001: Planned, organized and facilitated “The Stem Hotel Teacher Education Curriculum perspectives workshop” for all Teacher College Deans of Curriculum and heads of Departments in Kenya.The recommendations of which were used to review the Primary Teacher Education curriculum (2004).
3. 2004: Designed and developed a trainer’s Information and Communications Technology handbook for teacher educators for primary colleges in Kenya.
4. Ability to Design Instruction for Flexible learners using suitable and appropriate technologies to mediate learning.
5. Ability to teach online

Reasons for joining wikiEducator Community of Practice

My main reasons for wanting to contribute to WikiEducator is to be part of this largest world on-line community of practice transforming the world from the culture of using locked up static, less quality resources for teaching and learning towards digital freedoms exposition for updated more quality,sustainable and scalable resources.I plan to design a training module with a structure that incorporates:

• Topic
• Objectives
• Content
• Reasources
• Assessment

My Credentials

I have a Master of Flexible Learning from University of Southern Queensland (USQ). I used on-line mode of delivery for my study. This means that I was a web student.

Contacts

Elizabeth Okwisa Mbasu
Kenya Institute of Education
P.O. BOX 30231
Nairobi
Kenya
email embasu@yahoo.com
Cell phone: 254 0720 89 80 97

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Assignment

Upcoming Assignments

Booklist

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Feedback and Notes from Members

• Congratulations! You have done an incredible job. I am looking forward to seeing your project develop. Please feel free to ask for help. --Nellie Deutsch 07:55, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

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Notes from my Wikineighbours

• Jambo. Great to see you in the tutorial, Elizabeth, and to see your user page. Do you have any concerns about the quality of educational resources developed using an open authoring approach? If so, what are your concerns? If not, how does an open authoring approach contribute to high quality learning materials. --Phil Bartle 05:45, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Elizabeth, I'm your WikiNeighbour. Welcome to the EL4C24 5-day advanced Workshop. Please let me know if I can be of any help to you. Gladys Gahona., Junior Facilitator.--chela5808 05:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

It has been nice meeting you in the wikeducator hope we shall get to know more of each other--parametrs 17:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)