National University of Science and Technology

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The National University of Science and Technology (NUST, Zimbabwe) is an university sponsored by the goverment of Zimbabwe. It's located in the south-west of the country. It has been identified as possessing interest and/or capability in e-learning, for example, they have developed a program called Cisco Networking Academy, this is offered for students or teacher whom want to improve their IT skills.

This program offers courses online based in using the same high-quality Web-based format that has proven successful to more than one million students in more than 150 countries. THis program is called Cisco Curriculum and this offers online courses, interactive tools, and lab activities to prepare individuals for ICT and networking careers in virtually every type of industry. The program use blended-learning, face to face teaching with hands-on lab exercises. Cisco provides multi-media delivery of challenging curricula and embedded assessment over the Internet. This method has several advantages, for example, unilke a text books, the curriculum can be updated with the last improvements. Advantages:

• Students with different learning styles have access to several modes of explanation.
• Students receive feedback through comprehensive assessments where they apply their skills.
• Students discover what they’ve learned and what they need to review.
• The Academy program also has a significant hands-on component where students apply what they learn.

This university is member of AVU.

The National University of Science and Technology web site is at http://www.nust.ac.zw/

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