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ICTs have the potential to improve teaching and learning by providing innovative forms of education at a cost that is constantly decreasing. The introduction of ICTs in schools in developing countries enables the sharing of resources between students and teachers in different locations and can foster dialogue and creativity, improve the quality of learning, and build critical skills for students in underserved areas.


ICT Enables Distance Learning (World Bank)


 

Students and academics in Madagascar, Burundi, and Kenya describe the opportunities available to them through distance-learning programs and Internet connectivity. However, current infrastructure and cost limitations prohibit many educational institutions in Africa, even private universities, from providing the best online resources for their students. As they await the arrival of fibre-optic connectivity, the World Bank's US$424 million Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (RCIP) aims to bring affordable high speed connectivity to as many as 25 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. RCIP will provide terrestrial broadband network infrastructure as well as finance capacity purchase schemes for universities.


Person(s)
Lishan Adam (Researcher)
  • Independent Consultant
    Ethiopia
Institution(s)
Bridges
  • Kampala, Uganda
Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI)
  • Dublin 2, Ireland
Global Knowledge Partnership
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Global Teenager Project
  • SchoolNet Africa
  • Lagos, Nigeria
The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE)
  • Monterrey, California, United States
InfoDev
  • World Bank
  • Washington, DC, United States
LIRNEasia (Learning Initiatives on Reforms for Network Economies)
  • Colombo, Sri Lanka
Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
  • New Delhi, India
Resource(s)
New functions of higher education and ICT to achieve education for all (Report)
Integrating ICTs into the curriculum: A catalogue of key publications (Report)
Gender Issues in the use of computers in education in Africa (Report)
  • Leslie Casely-Hayford, Paul Lynch. 2003 .
Information Technologies and Education for the poor in Africa (ITEPA): Recommendations for a Pro-Poor ICT4D Non-Formal Education Policy (Report)
Using and Creating Knowledge with New Technologies: A Case for Students-as-designers (Journal)
  • Claire Wyatt-Smith, Kay Kimber. Learning, Media, & Technology. 19-34. 1 March 2006 .
Mobile learning for expanding educational opportunities (Report)
Knowledge Maps: ICTs in Education (Report)
  • November 2005 .
Project(s)
ICTs Assisted Learning Tool for Deaf in Pakistan
    Principal Investigator(s):
  • Sahabat Saeed Khan
    • Sign languages act as a great motivator for all hearing impaired people as they help people to connect and allow the deaf to break through their ...
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