Patience Akih, a 2012 MMEG grantee from Cameroon, holds a BA and a master’s in education and an PhD in computer-integrated education and is completing a post-doctoral fellowship in education and learning at North-West University in South Africa.
Patience promotes self-directed learning so that students find education engaging and self-enlightening. She combines traditional classroom teaching with technology and online resources and cooperative or group learning. She promotes an atmosphere where students create or construct meaning actively through exploration, reflection, and problem-solving, known constructionist learning
Patience has taught information and communication technology (ICT) for over a decade and is currently working on developing self-directed learning skills through problem-solving for first-year education students and their lecturers in the University of Pretoria.
In addition, from 2016 to 2018, she helped expand cultural and academic understanding between South Africa and Japan at the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of Pretoria.
Patience believes passionately in her methods and the value of technology in learning and gives lectures, talks, and keynote speeches on this topic whenever possible.
