education & ICT

29.07.2005 India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, has been chosen as the India headquarters for the United Nations “Global e-school and Communities Initiative” (Gesci), a special campaign to promote the use of technology in education.

28.07.2005 As part of its initiative to ensure that benefits of Information Technology and computer education percolate down to the grassroots, the Delhi Government is all set to launch a Computer Aided Learning (CAL) project in association with Ernst and Young (E&Y), in 200 government-run schools.

28.07.2005 Preparing teachers to judiciously use technologies for teaching and learning is the aim of the Next Generation of Teachers (NET) Project, which is designed to assist teacher education institutions in the Asia-Pacific region.

26.07.2005 President John Agyekum Kufuor on Monday urged African nations to agree on common Information Communication Technology (ICT) implementation strategies in Education, which must reflect on various core issues like education, development of sub-regional policy guidelines for effective partnership mechanism for cost-sharing, human resource development and optimisation of existing capacity in all areas of ICT use in education, an environment to reduce connectivity costs and supply of adequate band-with.

26.07.2005 Distance education can provide a richer and more engaging educational experience than is possible within the confines of the classroom.

26.07.2005 This report examines educational possibilities arising from the Internet, which strive to bring together the school, the home and the wider

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26.07.2005 Retired Professor Parker Rossman is exploring online in a draft textbook, free to the world, how to use the Internet to provide learning for all.

26.07.2005 E-learning is becoming a dominant delivery method in workplace-learning settings across organisations of various sectors and of varying sizes.

26.07.2005 A course constructed and conducted within the Center for Developing Teaching Teams in Jerusalem demonstrates that ecological and environmental issues, otherwise considered ideal subjects to teach in a classroom environment, can be taught as effectively using online methods.

26.07.2005 Working abroad in a very different culture can help expand one's awareness of the default contexts behind everyday practices, including education, that are often taken for granted.

26.07.2005 IT enabled education should be encouraged. The education issue should be accepted as a national challenge. Government alone cannot accept this challenge and address it”, says Shri Bhalchandra Mungekar in an interview with Manish Kumar of OneWorld South Asia.

26.07.2005 "I think that there is a role for ICT, but have we explored the extent to which that can be harnessed in education? I don’t think that there is enough discussion between education and the ICT sector”, tells Erma Manoncourt in an interview with Anupama Ramakrishnan of OneWorld South Asia.

26.07.2005 On the edge of the expanding wave of Internet connectivity, Punavali Kalan is located deep in the impoverished region of Bundelkhand.Though dial-up or subscriber lines do not yet reach the villagers, access to the Web is available through a VSAT at the local community knowledge center, the TARAkendra.

26.07.2005 The youngest of three sisters, 7-year-old Lovely Khatoon keeps quite busy from daybreak onwards. The daughter of a poor umbrella-repair man, Lovely goes to school meant for small children. On returning from school, she ...

26.07.2005 As a country, we are beginning to explore the ways in which to bring all children to school At the same time we are also exploring ways in which to bridge the digital divide.Combing the two efforts will help to accelerate India’s progress towards education for all.

25.07.2005 HP Invent and NEPAD e-Africa Commission have launched the first NEPAD e-school at Bugulumbya Secondary School in Kamuli district.

25.07.2005 A satellite interactive terminal, (SIT), is installed at Academic Staff College, Punjab University (PU), which establishes university’s link with the UGC-CEC.

22.07.2005 MTN Communications Nigeria Limited,Nigeria is to make financial investments with view to improving quality of learning and teaching of information and communication technology in schools.

22.07.2005 New Zealand's Education Minister has announced that The New Zealand Ministry of Education has signed an agreement with Novell to license a range of software for all schools.