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Searching with a thematic focus on ICTs for development, Digital development, ICT for education

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  ICT in education: a curriculum for schools and programme of teacher development

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2004

  This UNESCO book specifies a curriculum in information and communication technologies (ICT) for secondary schools in line with current international trends, and outlines a programme of professional development for teachers necessary to implement this curriculum successfully.The book aims to give a practical and realistic approach to curriculum and teacher development which can be implemented in
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  Distance education in developing countries

  Imfundo, 2000

  Growth of distance education methods of delivery has been a key feature of education in the 20th century. These developments raise questions about what distance education actually is, how it can contribute to solving educational problems in developing countries, and what lessons we can learn from deployment of distance education practices over the last hundred years.
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  Teaching the teachers

  Imfundo, 2000

  Many countries in subsaharan Africa have far fewer teachers than they need to achieve the goals of education for all by 2015. Many of the existing teachers have themselves had a limited background education and specialist teacher training. Existing colleges are not training enough teachers to fill the gap. Furthermore, conventional teacher training tends to be relatively expensive.
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  Fostering girls’ computer literacy through laptop learning: can mobile computers help to level out the gender difference?

  Notesys, 2001

  This study looks at whether the difference between boys and girls in computer literacy can be leveled out in a laptop program where each student has his/her own mobile computer to work with at home and at school. 113 students from laptop and non-laptop classes were tested for their computer knowledge and computer confidence.
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  Learning with technology: the impact of laptop use on student achievement

  Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment, 2005

  This study presented here examined the impact of participation in a laptop programme in California on student achievement. A total of 259 middle school students were followed via cohorts.
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  Laptop learning: a comparison of teaching and learning in upper elementary classrooms equipped with shared carts of laptops and permanent One-to-One laptops

  Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment, 2004

  This study compared teaching and learning in settings that create a 1:1 laptop environment on either a temporary or permanent basis.
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  In and out in 60 minutes: how to get an educational game up and running in no time

  Curtin Business School, 2004

  The advent of the Information Highway has heightened interest in the use of educational games for learning in both schools and universities and the workplace.
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  A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of computer-assisted instruction in science education

  Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2001

  This meta-analysis investigated how effective computer-assisted instruction (CAI) is on student achievement in secondary and college science education when compared to traditional instruction.
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  The effects of technology on reading performance in the middle-school grades: a meta-analysis with recommendations for policy

  Learning Point Associates, 2005

  This article reports the results of a meta-analysis of 20 research articles containing 89 effect sizes related to the use of digital tools and learning environments to enhance literacy acquisition [in the USA].
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  Meta-analytic studies of findings on computer-based instruction

  Advice on Accessing Books, 1994

  [Available in print only] This article summarises a large number of meta-analyses of computer-based instruction from the 1980s. The author finds an average effect size of .32 standard deviation units for all computer uses.

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