About

Gebremedhn Mehari Haylu

E-Learning Coordinator and Computer Science Lecturer at Samara University, Ethiopia. Gere EdTech is his personal platform — a space for reflection on instructional design, digital learning systems, and educational technology, grounded in 8+ years of institutional practice.

Professional Impact at Samara University

The institutional context

The following figures reflect Gebremedhn's professional contributions as E-Learning Coordinator at Samara University — the hands-on experience that informs everything shared on this platform.

4,900+ Students facilitated to get certified through the Student Success Suite (e-SHE / MoE)

1,900+ Students prepared for Ethiopia's national online exam via a custom examination system he built

100+ Faculty trained — Master Class: Foundations for Excellence in Teaching Online (Open edX)

86 Blended courses supported, facilitated and enriched with multimedia content (Open edX)

8+ Years in Ethiopian higher education

Samara University — institutional home and primary site of impact

Professional Journey

Background & Experience

Gebremedhn began his career as a Computer Science Lecturer, teaching undergraduate courses at Samara University. Over time, his role expanded into the coordination of institutional e-learning initiatives — a position that placed him at the intersection of technology, pedagogy, and institutional change.

As E-Learning Coordinator, he has supported and facilitated the university's use of the Open edX platform, coordinated national Ministry of Education e-learning programs, trained and certified instructors as a Certified Trainer on the Open edX-based Master Class programme, and independently developed digital tools to support student learning — all within a higher education system navigating rapid digital transformation with limited resources. This work reflects the same three commitments behind Gere EdTech: designing learning experiences around real needs, building the systems that sustain them, and educating the people who carry them forward.

His current interests extend into AI governance and digital transformation policy — how decisions made at the institutional and national level shape whether technology genuinely serves learners or simply adds complexity. Gere EdTech is where he works through those questions in public.

Credentials & Qualifications

Graduate Certificate in Learning Design and Technologies — Arizona State University, USA (2025)
Certified Trainer — Master Class: Foundations for Excellence in Teaching Online (e-SHE / MoE, 2025)
Certificate — Master Class: Foundations for Excellence in Teaching Online (e-SHE / MoE, 2024)
GDLN Blended Learning Program — KDI School, Korea (2026): AI, Digital Governance & Public Sector Transformation
MSc Computer Science — Adigrat University, Ethiopia (2022)
BSc Computer Science — Adigrat University, Ethiopia (2017)

Areas of Expertise

Instructional Design & Online Course Development
Learning Management Systems — Open edX, Moodle
Faculty Training & Capacity Building in Online Teaching
E-Learning Coordination in Higher Education
Digital Transformation in Higher Education
AI in Education — Policy, Governance & Learning Systems
Educational Technology in Resource-Constrained Contexts

The Platform

What Gere EdTech is

Gere EdTech is not an organisation or a consultancy. It is Gebremedhn's personal platform — a space to share reflections, practice notes, and insights from his work as an educator and e-learning coordinator. The three content pillars map directly onto his professional life:

Designing Learning

What actually works when you try to design effective online courses for Ethiopian university students — and what instructional design theory looks like when it meets real constraints.

Building Systems

What it takes to implement and sustain digital learning infrastructure in a resource-constrained environment — the decisions, the trade-offs, and the lessons from doing it at scale.

Educating with Purpose

What university teaching, faculty development, and the coordination of institutional e-learning initiatives have revealed about what meaningful education actually requires.

Gere is derived from Geʿez — one of the ancient languages of the Horn of Africa — and carries the meaning of "servant." It is a reminder that the tools, the systems, and the frameworks are never the point. The point is what they make possible for the people who use them.

Videos

Watch & Learn

Practical videos on designing learning experiences, building digital systems, and educating with purpose.

How to Develop e-SHE Courses: An Experience-Driven Guide (Open edX)

Welcome to the Gere EdTech series on e-learning course development. This video provides a structured, experience-based guide to building courses for the e-SHE initiative on the Open edX platform. We believe that great courses are built on paper first. This video introduces the Detailed Course Design (DCD) Pipeline—a proven roadmap that takes you from the initial concept to a fully launched course. 📌 Roadmap Highlights: Phase 1: Pre-Development Phase 2: Planning & Design (The Detailed Design Document) Phase 3: Authoring in Open edX Studio Phase 4: Beta Testing & Quality Assurance Phase 5: Blueprint Designation Phase 6: Offering the Course

June 2026 Watch on YouTube ↗

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Looking Ahead

What Gere EdTech is becoming

Beyond a personal reflection platform, Gere EdTech represents a longer-term vision — to evolve into an academy: an online learning space committed to expanding access to quality, thoughtfully designed education, particularly in resource-constrained contexts across the Horn of Africa and beyond.

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