ELCC IN BRIEF
The E-Learning Competence Center (Center) was established through an alliance
between Ministry of Communication and Information Technology MCIT and Cisco
Systems in September 2004. The Center is contributing to Egypt 's economic
growth and competitiveness by enhancing workforce performance through
state-of-the-art e-learning and human resource development. The Center is
supporting the skill development of young people in all disciplines through
direct development and delivery of education programs through the Center and by
helping other ministries establish similar Competence Centers.
The initial activities for the Center is to develop local training centers in
conjunction with government and non-government
organizations (NGOs) , deliver education programs targeted at small-to-medium
enterprises (SMEs) , help setup the E-Learning center for the
Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), and begin curriculum
development activities .
The Center aims to deliver a wider range of e-learning programs in the future,
including e-government and healthcare education, the Center will concentrate
only on the delivery of SME and ICT programs. The Center is delivering Cisco IT
Essentials I and II, Cisco iExecutive Education and Microsoft's Unlimited
Potential Programs to build ICT and management capacity within Egypt's SME
communities.
The Center offers Cisco Sponsored Curriculum Networking Academy curriculum and
training to Local Academies. The initial curriculum offered by this program to
the Center is IT Essentials I and II. The requisite learning platform to
support this and other curriculum to be developed and delivered by the Center
is the CLI Virtuoso.
Content development projects of the center will include, creating e-learning
content for the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE), Oracle, localizing and
translating content for the iExec Ed Business Fundamentals Program and
migrating to the Center's LMS a series of Arabic Desktop Software Skills
courses that are based on Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Program.