Learn With Skillshare: The First Two Months Are Free
People are always asking me for a Udemy alternative, well Skillshare is one such alternative. The site allows you to enrol in short courses on a number of topics and...
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You Can Still Get Udemy Courses For $11 Or Using Ecocash
A lot of people apparently took advantage of the $9.99 Udemy offer from last week but if you were for some reason unable there is no need to despair: You...
Get These Udemy Courses For Only $9.99, Limited Ecocash Offer Available
I have written many gushing articles on how awesome I think Udemy is. Like all things Udemy is not perfect in the same way no school or product is but...
HIT Students Demonstrate For Wi-Fi
Yesterday, Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) students held a protest to its administration for lack of wi-fi amongst other many things. Students reported that there they lack wi-fi access in...
Only 4% Of Adults In Zimbabwe Can ‘Copy And Paste’ Files: Worrying
This may come as surprise for many to know that as much as 96% of adults in Zimbabwe cannot ‘copy and paste’ files. In human-computer interaction, ‘copy and paste’ is...
Expand Your Repertoire With These Udemy Courses
In Shona there is a famous proverb: Kudzidza hakuperi. While it is often translated as “Learning never stops”, which is a statement, I often think of it as more of an imperative:...
Get a Lifetime Of Programming Skills For Only $12
TLDR Udemy is running another of it’s endless promotions. For $12 (Ecocash $16, see below for details) you can get lifetime access to a course of your choice. The U.S...
Google Teaching Machine Learning and AI For FREE
Google is now offering an Introductory course on Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning(ML) for free on its new Learn With AI site. Google hopes the site will be a hub...
Udemy Is Running A Month Long Promotion This February
I still remember the first time I tried to learn programming. I was a University accounting student with a passion for everything ICT and I had finally decided to learn...
Acquire and enhance your skills with Udemy for $11, A Limited Offer To Pay Using EcoCash Is Available
So a lot of people got in touch with me after they missed the Udemy new year promotion. It’s January and everyone is running around trying to look for money...
Start the year on a high with these $10.99 Udemy courses
An offer you cannot resist Currently Udemy is running a new year promotion that will allow you to enroll into any course for $10.99. Before I start rambling please know...
PRESS RELEASE: Econet’s Muzinda Hub to train 1 million developers in Africa by 2022
Econet wireless’s Muzinda Hub has signed an all Africa exclusive agreement with Treehouse, the number one global online training platform for coding. Treehouse offers a variety of programming languages and...
School-type sciences were not for Phillip, the unconventional maker
So we usually get emails of people doing things out there, pitching ideas and all of that sort. And to be fair it’s usually the same sort of stuff we...
Want to study IT online at a cheap price? Check out Habenerd
How about having online IT courses that fit the Zimbabwean context? This is particularly important when the courses go on to teach you on how to make money through the...
Google launches Mobile Web Specialist certification – an option for web devs to gain more credibility
Google recently launched a new certification called Mobile Web Specialist. The certification will allow people who are either learning web development or already established to gain an accreditation certificate from...
Wagona Maths – a new e-learning platform that wants to help your kids improve their math skills
Wagona Maths is an e-learning platform that supports the teaching and learning of mathematics in Zimbabwe and throughout the world. The e-learning platform was built by a maths teacher called...
Learn how to code at ‘Coding day’ in Bulawayo.
Learning to code is important. I mean it only makes sense considering how digital we have become (and continue to become). In light of this, HabeNerd, an online IT learning...
A new way to learn through exploration in Virtual Reality
The experience that I had with getting started viewing virtual reality was really good. And if you read that article, you know that it left me wondering whether there were...
Econet’s Ruzivo e-learning platform adds Ordinary level content
The Ruzivo e-learning platform has been making some noise in the online learning spaces and drawing mixed feelings from people. However, ever since it was zero-rated for Econet users and had other...
5 reasons why you should participate in the Google Digital Skills Training program
I’m pretty sure one way or the other, you’ve heard about the digital skills training that Google has been conducting throughout Africa. Over the last two days, there has been...
Econet makes changes to e-learning platform Ruzivo; adds Shona, Ndebele & other subjects & content is free
Plans to hack that away now suggests that perhaps users aren't cosying up to it even though Econet has said "thousands" of users are signing up. If that's the case,...
Ministry of Education’s new high school curriculum sets 10 subject maximum, computers & other STEM subjects optional
The Ministry of Education which has been rolling out a new curriculum for Primary and Secondary Education in Zimbabwe recently shared some guidelines on subjects set for Ordinary Level students....
You’ll Probably Be Wasting Your Time (And Money) By Going To A Local University In 2017…
Preamble: I dropped out of school 3 times; in Grade 7, Form 2 and Lower 6. I’ve never been to university but have proceeded to National Diploma level at Polytechnic....
The internet can help you prepare for your ZIMSEC exams!
image credit: financialgazette.co.zw With the exam, season fast approaching it’s of utmost importance to get your house in order. There is a quote that says “success is where preparation and opportunity meet”, and...
Econet signs up brand ambassadors for Ruzivo digital learning platform
In the latest effort to expand Ruzivo's footprint Econet has been signing on brand ambassadors that will raise awareness of the learning platform. These ambassadors will engage with the platform's...
Here’s a look at ShonaApp, a new mobile e-learning tool for Shona students
Check out this new app called ShonaApp which was launched recently. This is an Android application (it works for Android 3.0 and above) that acts as a Shona language companion...
Zimbabwean children & youth to receive coding & digital skills training through SAP programme
This is part of its Africa Code Week initiative that is scheduled to run from the 15th to the 23rd of October 2016. During the course of that week, SAP...
Econet’s EcoSchool to launch online learning partnership with ACCA
Local mobile operator Econet Wireless and global accounting body ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) are set to unveil a partnership today that will introduce accounting students to the...
These Zimbabwean entrepreneurs were backed by Microsoft and now want to transform local education
Mustard Seed generated significant interest among potential investors as well as prospective schools that were keen on integrating the platform with their existing school systems, something which prompted the team...
Econet launches e-learning platform, makes second attempt at disrupting local education
Ruzivo has been designed as a new service under Econet Education banner and rather than replacing EcoSchool, it will be acting as a complementary service that addresses the learning needs...