PLEDS project

The PLEDS project aims to analyse the use of digital technologies, more specifically the web 2.0 tools, in order to respond to two main needs identified in doctoral education in sub-Saharan Africa: 1) the supervision of doctoral students and 2) the visibility of research.
Launched in June 2013 by the Open University of Catalonia (Spain), Kenyatta University (Kenia) and the Catalan Association of Public Universities, the project explores the use of Personal Learning Environments for Doctoral Students (PLEDS), a lifetime personal web space equipped with software, communication, search, social and multimedia tools that allows students to gather and organise relevant learning information from the web and to disseminate their own material. Read more...