It was the start of the school year this week in Cameroon, and the country took the opportunity to inaugurate its first distance learning center in the Lac district of Yaoundé. The center offers students in crisis-hit regions, who do not always have access to classrooms, the opportunity to experience virtual learning.
With our correspondent in Yaoundé, Richard Onanena
Every morning since the start of the school year, Lydie Prisca, a chemistry teacher, has been giving lessons in front of a camera in a soundproof room at the distance learning center. To her left, there are control screens where she can see the students and answer their questions.
Jean-Pierre Adjaga coordinates the center: “ It lightens what is called the essential load. In other words, instead of telling a child, “the heart beats here,” when you bring him to see it and experience it virtually, the effort he makes to understand is lightened compared to what it would have to if he were just reading about it in a book and so on. »
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Offering distance learning courses with simulations is revolutionary in the Cameroonian environment. But be careful, warns the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a partner of the center: there is no question of technology replacing the teacher.
- RFI
