UniCollaboration Plenary Session: Virtual Learning Goes to Camp -- Online Pedagogies in Contexts of Emergency and Crisis

In this UniCollaboration plenary session, Barbara Moser-Mercer speaks on setting up education classrooms in refugee camps with University of Geneva students. She starts off with a video which speaks to the virtual exchange idea and how students from the University of Geneva are working together with students in Macau and how that could be developed and designed and what Kenya means to the students on both ends. At the end of the video, she describes two projects that are ongoing. One of them is geo-mapping snakes and scorpions in the Kakuma Camp (Kenya). The first initiative has already been implemented and landed us a mention in the Global Education Report of UNESCO of which we are very proud. Basically, the students locally designed an information session for parents to help them chart the safest way through the camp to school avoiding the areas with a preponderance of snakes and scorpions. The second project is being followed up with the International Rescue Committee who is responsible for health in the camp. The camp has basic medical training available, however prevention is not funded in the camp. So students designed an education project were they mapped malaria laevae breeding sites. Thus creating a system in the camp to prevent malaria. She ends the session with a question and answer period. [For the complete volume, see ED609298.]