Information and communication technologies are today playing a very important role in transforming the mode of imparting education. While the interactive white boards are increasingly becoming common in the school classrooms, popularity of online courses are helping the countries in improving access and quality of education. Application of technology in the mode of imparting education is thus not only helping a lot in bridging the rural urban divide but also in improving the quality of life. In order to provide you a better view of the role played by technology in education, we have indexed below some of the articles that are covered in our magazine -
Space Technology in Education – Indian Context
The Indian Space Programme has always aimed to be second to none in the applications of space technology to deal with the problems of development in our society. ISRO has continuously pursued the utilization of space technology for education and development
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Learning Lab – Learning Using Mobile Devices
One can imagine several other educational activities using handhelds to enhance learning anytime and anywhere. For instance, students with a camera enabled mobile phone can annotate their everyday biology assignments with pictures of local flora and fauna. Else they may choose to make field notes and share short messages amongst peers using SMS. Read More...
Preparing for a digital Future
The developing economies have to operate by sharing resources and the concept of on-line communities has to be accepted as the better way of implementing the knowledge dissemination as well as economy of transition. The networking technologies are the ideal tool for introducing the concept of online communities to share, exchange, store products and tools and penetrate the global niche market. Read More...
Two Decades of Technology Enhanced Learning Environment
As a result, the government and other leading political, social and economic actors jointly envisioned a Program oriented to introduce technology to schools, as a tool to bring about strategic change in learning schemes and appropriation of digital technologies. Read More...
The Hole in Wall – Beyond Computer Literacy
Several studies measuring the learning achievement of children in curricular subjects showed that the Hole-in-the-Wall was making a significant difference to learning outcomes. From what we understand of the Hole-in-the-Wall pedagogy, the outcomes are not merely a matter of the children accessing educational content on the computer.
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Pilot Schools Utilize ICT for Learning Development
In order to improve educational administration and management in educational institutions, the Thai government has initiated an innovative framework in a project called, “Mini-Ministry of Education.” Inside the framework, the “Educational Innovation Committee” was established to supervise the project which will be implemented during the fiscal years 2003-2006 (MOE, 2004).
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Education Via PDA Technology
The central focus of the study reported here is to gain understanding of important design consideration that will result in creation of better learning objects for educational applications via PDA technology.
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Technology Education in Asia
Whilst East Asia is close to meeting the Millennium Development Goal of Education for All, in 2004 South Asia still had only 80% of students accessing primary education.
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ICT Policy for Education – A Tale of Two Countries
At the turn of the millennium, national information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education projects or organisations could not be found in Namibia. Within three years, nearly a dozen projects and organisations had begun to pilot ICT-related activities. These included ICT deployments, curriculum development, content deliver, teacher training, educational management, technical support, and connectivity.
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A Telco Broad banding Education in Philippines
Government efforts are underway to promote ICT usage, among them the distribution of computers to public high schools under the PCs for Public Schools (PCPS) programme. The private sector has also pitched in, with companies engaging in various ICT intended corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects, from computer donations to Internet connectivity.
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Designing Multimedia Application For Children
There are five experimental situations involve in this research study. The overall purpose was to find out what really matters when designing multimedia for children. The story began by finding out what works and what did not and the whys behind it all.
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Video Set Up for Classroom Learning – From Virtual to Augmented Reality
AR has been used in entertainment, military training, medical, engineering design, robotics and tele-robotics, manufacturing and consumer designs for many years prior to its introduction. Fotis Liarokapis, Panos Petridis, Paul Lister and Martin White (2002) have developed "an interactive e-learning AR environ-ment" called Multimedia Augmented Reality Interface for E- Learning (MARIE) in which users can view and interact with 3D virtual objects aided by online instructors.
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Evaluating the Web accessibility of World's Top 10 Universities' Home Page
The importance of web accessibility for e-learning is an issue that is gaining incresing attention. There are two main reasons supporting the need of evaluating the 2006 World's Top Ten Universities' Home Page. First is, there is no clear database or collection of e-learning web sites in the global rank.
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Rethinking the Asian ICT and Education Agenda
There are several Asian countries that have made enormous progress in this arena. Some have completely outpaced others on particular areas and have become global leaders. There are many chances for Asia, ICT still has much more in stock for digital learning to rule the roost.
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Introducing Technology Based Higher Education in Bangladesh
Educational institutes, particularly the Higher Education Institutions, are the largest stakeholders to adapt to the technological advancement for better and efficient rendering of education to the mass learning community including regular classroom based as well as distant student via online and offline e-Learning.
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Teacher Preparation For Technology in Education
Training courses for teachers are indeed strategies to discover the relation between technology resources, curriculum, pedagogy and learning. The efforts required to implement such courses are enormous, while training opportunities are limited. But teachers have started demanding these opportunities.
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White Board Bringing Interactivity in Education
Interactive whiteboards are used in classroom environments in the case of which the technology allows one to write or draw on the surface, print the image off, save it to computer, or distribute it over a network. One can also project a computer screen image onto the surface and then either control the application by touching the board directly or by using a special pen.
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Envisioning a National Policy on ICT in Education
Planning for ICT Policy must definitely keep in mind the quality aspect of education. It is crucial to analyse what quality in education means, how it can be assessed and how it can be measured. Research conducted around the world reveals that using standardized quality standards enable schools to move towards organisational excellence.
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Technology in Education Awards 2007
Intel India works with teachers of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas to help them integrate technology in their lessons to captivate, inspire and empower students with 21st century learning skills. In an effort to motivate teachers and students, and acknowledge many novel attempts made to integrate technology in education, Technology in Education Awards 2007 was organised.
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Collaborative Technologies for Enhanced Teaching
The ICT workshop introduced the concept of using ICT based tools to enhance collaborative technology and encourages participants to tap the creative talents of their students through use of digital video dairies, blogging and podcasting.
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