Measuring the Impact of ICT Use in Education
02-08-2002 (Paris)
As ICTs are increasingly used in education in the Asia and the Pacific region, indicators to monitor their impact and to demonstrate accountability to funding sources and the public are increasingly needed. To look at these issues, UNESCO is now preparing a workshop to be held from 28 to 30 August 2002 in Metro Manila, Philippines.
As ICTs are increasingly used in education in the Asia and the Pacific region, indicators to monitor their impact and to demonstrate accountability to funding sources and the public are increasingly needed. To look at these issues, UNESCO is now preparing a workshop to be held from 28 to 30 August 2002 in Metro Manila, Philippines.
Indicators are needed to show the relationships between technology use and educational reforms, empowerment of teachers, changes in teaching and learning processes, and student learning. There is also a need to show that education should be seen as using technology not only as an end in itself, but as a means to promote creativity, empowerment and equality and produce efficient learners and problem solvers.
To be able to assess such relationships, appropriate measurement tools are needed. The development of a structure of indicators as a means of gauging the level of change towards the formation of a learning and knowledge society is the objective of the "Consultative Workshop on the Development of Indicators to Measure the Impact of ICT Use in Education" that is being organized by UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau of Education at SEAMEO Regional Center for Educational Innovation and Technology (INNOTECH), University of the Philippines, Metro Manila from 28-30 August 2002.
Participants of the workshop, mainly from Australia, China, Japan, Uzbekistan, India, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Viet Nam and Thailand, will be educators and researchers who are in charge and interested in monitoring and evaluating the use of ICT in education, in schools and in non-formal education. Resource persons from the UNESCO Institute of Information Technology in Education will be sharing their experiences and resources in implementing similar activity.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
Provide an understanding of how selected countries use computers in schools and of efforts in measuring the effects of ICT use in education
Present a regional situational analysis synthesising experiences and lessons learned in the use of ICT indicators in Asia and the Pacific
Share the experiences and initiatives from other regions (e.g. Europe, Baltic and CIS countries) to measure the impact of ICT in education; the set of indicators used in these various regions; the results of their use and pilot testing; lessons learned and implications of their experiences to Asia and the Pacific
Recommend a set of indicators for measuring ICT use in education in Asia and the Pacific, including a rationale for each and methods of data collection and use
Recommend methods/mechanisms for pre-testing and data collection, processing, storage and dissemination.
Indicators are needed to show the relationships between technology use and educational reforms, empowerment of teachers, changes in teaching and learning processes, and student learning. There is also a need to show that education should be seen as using technology not only as an end in itself, but as a means to promote creativity, empowerment and equality and produce efficient learners and problem solvers.
To be able to assess such relationships, appropriate measurement tools are needed. The development of a structure of indicators as a means of gauging the level of change towards the formation of a learning and knowledge society is the objective of the "Consultative Workshop on the Development of Indicators to Measure the Impact of ICT Use in Education" that is being organized by UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau of Education at SEAMEO Regional Center for Educational Innovation and Technology (INNOTECH), University of the Philippines, Metro Manila from 28-30 August 2002.
Participants of the workshop, mainly from Australia, China, Japan, Uzbekistan, India, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Viet Nam and Thailand, will be educators and researchers who are in charge and interested in monitoring and evaluating the use of ICT in education, in schools and in non-formal education. Resource persons from the UNESCO Institute of Information Technology in Education will be sharing their experiences and resources in implementing similar activity.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
Provide an understanding of how selected countries use computers in schools and of efforts in measuring the effects of ICT use in education
Present a regional situational analysis synthesising experiences and lessons learned in the use of ICT indicators in Asia and the Pacific
Share the experiences and initiatives from other regions (e.g. Europe, Baltic and CIS countries) to measure the impact of ICT in education; the set of indicators used in these various regions; the results of their use and pilot testing; lessons learned and implications of their experiences to Asia and the Pacific
Recommend a set of indicators for measuring ICT use in education in Asia and the Pacific, including a rationale for each and methods of data collection and use
Recommend methods/mechanisms for pre-testing and data collection, processing, storage and dissemination.
Related themes/countries
· Philippines: News Archive 2002
· ICT in Education: News Archives 2002
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