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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Africa Embracing the "New Normal" for Knowledge Production and Innovation: Barriers, Realities, and Possibilities

In: Higher Education - New Approaches to Accreditation, Digitalization, and Globalization in the Age of Covid

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  • Christopher B. Mugimu

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If Africa is to remain relevant and competitive in today's knowledge-based economy, it has to rely on higher education institutions (HEIs) as centers of excellence for knowledge production. HEIs nurture and sustain the production of highly-skilled individuals to support Africa's growing economies. Among all possible ways, this could be achievable through strategic curricula innovation driven by emerging mobile technologies. Consequently, Africa's HEIs need to embrace the 'New Normal' by optimizing online teaching and learning in their pursuit to expand information and communications technology (ICT) literacy as a means to increase students' opportunities in higher education (HE). However, Africa's ability to embrace the 'New Normal' has been marred by inadequate ICT infrastructures, low connectivity, unreliable power supply, and national budget constraints that may undermine Africa's HEIs' potential to augment knowledge production and innovation.

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  • Christopher B. Mugimu, 2022. "Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Africa Embracing the "New Normal" for Knowledge Production and Innovation: Barriers, Realities, and Possibilities," Chapters, in: Lee Waller & Sharon Waller (ed.), Higher Education - New Approaches to Accreditation, Digitalization, and Globalization in the Age of Covid, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:245329
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.101063
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    Keywords

    curriculum innovation; higher education; knowledge production; knowledge-based economy; the 'New Normal';
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    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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