ICT and education
- ICTs and quality of teacher education
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The Digital Education Enhancement Project (DEEP) is an applied research project exploring the ways in which information and communications technology (ICT) can improve access to, and the quality of, teacher education in the global south.It focuses on three key research questions: What is the impact of ICT use on the pedagogic knowledge and practice of teachers and the communities in which they live and work? What is the impact of ICT-enhanced teaching on student achievement and motivation? How can teacher education and training be developed to ensure teacher capacity to exploit the potential for ICT?
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- Use of computerised information systems in Uganda and Botswana
- ( R Bisaso / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2008)
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The use of Computerised Information Systems has grown rapidly in developed countries in the past two decades. Developing countries are far behind but some, such as Botswana and Uganda, have introdu...
- New directions needed for gender in education
- ( Ramya Subrahmanian / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2008)
- More and more girls are now enrolling in schools worldwide, but gender equity goals cannot be reached simply by building schools and ensuring female access to them. Policymaking must become more trans...
- Promises and betrayals of education in Uttar Pradesh
- ( Craig Jeffrey;Patricia Jeffery;Roger Jeffery / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2008)
- Is education really the key to a better life? Many people in north India are finding that education is not necessarily a route to a better life, and they remain marginalised from employment. Extra sch...
- Boys’ lower participation in schools in Lesotho
- ( Jyotsna Jha;Fatimah Kelleher / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2008)
- In Lesotho, girls are more likely to participate in schooling and have higher literacy rates than boys. Boys’ enrolment is lower than girls’ at primary and secondary school, but the gap is greater at ...
- Reducing boys’ drop-out rates from Jamaican schools
- ( Jyotsna Jha;Fatimah Kelleher / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2008)
- In most countries, girls have traditionally been disadvantaged in education. In recent years, Jamaican boys have increasingly underachieved in secondary and tertiary education. A participatory project...
- Low-fee private schooling for disadvantaged girls in India
- ( Prachi Srivastava / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2008)
- In changing school and socio-economic environments, how do parents from poor households in the Lucknow District in India choose a school for their daughters? Why do many choose low-fee private schools...
- Women’s literacy training using ICTs
- ( Anita Dighe;Usha V. Reddi / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2007)
- About 18 percent of adults worldwide remain illiterate, the majority of them women and mostly from the poor sectors of society. How common is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT...
- The future of open educational resources
- ( J. Hylén / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2007)
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Open educational resource (OER) initiatives encourage transparency and can stimulate more quality control and competition. Universities and colleges are encouraged to join the OER movement due to t...
- Wireless networking for rural development: a success story from Nepal
- ( M. Pun;R. Shields;R. Poudel;P. Mucci / Electronic Networking for Rural Asia/Pacific , 2006)
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This paper presents a case study evaluation of Nepal Wireless Networking Project. With the aim of overcoming the digital divide, the project aims to increase communication facilities in the mountai...
- The effect of increased education on employment for Kenyan women
- ( Rosemary Atieno;Francis Teal / id21 Development Research Reporting Service , 2007)
- Creation of wage jobs has not kept up with rapid growth in the workforce in sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya, since the 1990s employment has become dominated by the informal sector, particularly for women...
