Practices Of Adopting E-Skills For Teaching And Learning In Ugandan Schools

The purpose of this paper is to review the process of ICT adoption in Ugandan schools for facilitation of teaching and learning in the last decade. This review is done in order to examine how beneficial e-skills have enhanced teaching and learning in Ugandan schools, and to identify the outstanding challenges the schools have had in e-skills adoption. When ICT started gaining popularity in Uganda in mid 90s, the schools were the first beneficiaries chosen by international development partners as a starting point for spreading ICT skills to the communities of Uganda. Different approaches have been used by different international bodies in implementation of ICT education projects in Ugandan schools. Some of these projects involved the community from the surrounding of the schools in getting e-skills from schools (such as World Links for Development and NEPAD) while others focused on training needs of students and teachers only. We have used SWOT analysis to examine e-skills adoption practices in Ugandan schools. Using this approach of analysis, we have identified benefits schools obtained from e-skills, the weaknesses in e-skills adoption process. We also present the factors that are important for ICT education and the opportunities for future e-skills adoption.