ICT in Education Database
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, News and Events, APEID
Policy Forum for Asia and the Pacific: Policy and Practices in Open Educational Resources
On 23-24 April 2012, UNESCO, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the Thai Teachers TV (TTV) co-organized a Policy Forum for Asia and the Pacific on Open...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, News and Events
Korean Science TV to share programme contents at no cost
Korean education broadcaster YTN Science expressed intentions to create and share free broadcast materials to public Education TV channels in Asia-Pacific...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, News and Events
Learning in a book-poor, mobile-rich world
Mobile technologies are promoting collaborative learning in science classes in Chile; strengthening communication between principals and teachers in Kenya;...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, News and Events
UN debate stresses need to break down barriers for girls in technology-related careers
At a United Nations-organized event in New York, education and technology experts from around the world today discussed the need to break down...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, News and Events
eTwinning for cross-border learning: School projects of the year announced
The eTwinning annual conference was held in Berlin from 29 to 31 March. Over 500 teachers from 31 countries, actively participated in a very lively programme...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, News and Events
The WISE Awards - Recognizing innovative and transformative projects
Running in parallel with the WISE Prize for Education and a number of annual programs, the WISE Awards are designed to identify, showcase and...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, News and Events
OER in Asia: Trends and issues
By Ishan Sudeera Abeywardena, Senior Lecturer at the School of Science and Technology, Wawasan Open University, Malaysia
The OERAsia study...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, Projects/Programmes
Nenasa – Bridging education gap in Sri Lanka
By Seth Leighton, Educate Lanka Foundation
Dialog Axiata PLC, a telecommunications company from Sri Lanka, has developed a programme to enable access to high...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, Resources
Developing and deploying OERs in sub-Saharan Africa: Building on the present
Open educational resources (OERs) have the potential to reduce costs, improve quality, and increase access to educational opportunities. OER development and...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, Resources
Open Access to scientific information: Policy guidelines released
Addressing a major concern of Member States, UNESCO has released a new publication entitled Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, Resources
Open Educational Resources in the People’s Republic of China: Achievements, challenges and prospects for development
UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) has published a new analytical survey “Open Educational Resources in the People’s Republic...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, Resources
Online courseware from Yale University
Open Yale Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the internet. The aim of the...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, Resources
Open Culture - high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community
“The best free cultural & educational media on the web”, Open Culture does live up to its descriptive title. Over the years, Open Culture has...
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21.05.12: ICT in Education, Resources
Technology and child development: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program (OLPC)
Although many countries are implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper written by...
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17.04.12: ICT in Education, News and Events
Digital textbook initiatives in Korea
By Hye-Kyung Yang, KERIS, Korea
In 1995, the Presidential Education Commission drafted an agenda which, for Korean policymakers still serves as the...