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Conversation
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Microsoft’s
Partners-in-Learning Ini-tiative: An Asia Pacific
Overview
Vincent Quah
Despite real improvements in
access to, and use of ICT there is enough evidence
to suggest that the digital divide between and
within countries is growing. In response to this
challenge microsoft launched its
Partners-in-Learning. Vincent Quah, Regional
Academic Programs Manager, Asia Pacific Public
Sector, Microsoft, elaborates more on the issue
and gives an Asia pacific overview of the
initiative. Read
more... |
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Learning Community this
Week
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Read
more ICT and Education related news,
views and information in the latest issue of our
monthly digital LEARNING
magazine | |
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Editorial
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With more than 511 million illiterates and 45.5
million out of school children, the Asia Pacific
region is fast embracing towards integrating ICTs
in education. Vincent Quah, Regional Academic
Programs Manager, Asia Pacific Public Sector,
Microsoft, unlocks the issue in this week's In
Conversation. The Top Article this week covers
Namibia's ICT in education policy by Alfred
Ilukena, Under Secretary of Education, Namibia,
who compares it with that of the Indian policy.
Find out news, information and much more on
parallel themes in this week's digital
LEARNING.
Hope this will make an enjoyable
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Top
News
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Research shows wide digital divide in South
Pacific 
Research into the use
of information and communication technologies
(ICTs) in education in the countries of the South
Pacific shows that up to 17 per cent of the
Pacific population enjoys Internet access although
access to ICT in primary schools averages one
percent. Read
more...
Educomp will reach
out to more schools
Educomp,
India's largest e-education service provider is
set to take Information Communication Technology
(ICT) to 8,000 schools in the country by March
against the 7,000 declared earlier. Read more...
UNESCO agrees to support youth
education in Honduras
The United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) will support youth development and
capacity-building in education in Honduras. Read
more... |
Top
Article
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ICT policy
for education - A Tale of Two
Countries
Alfred Ilukena
ICT can light up learning,
empower communities, and unlock social
development. But it can only work such wonder if
it's based on a sound policy. Alfred IIukena,
Under Secretary of Education, Namibia, Shares
exhaustively with us on Namibia's ICT in education
policy and compares it with the Indian efforts in
this sector. Read more...
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| Power
Presentation
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Benjamin L. Vergel De
DiosUNESCO envisions that by 2008
all member-states in the Asia-Pacific region will
have a national ICT in education policy. A power
point presentation made by Benjamin L. Vergel,
Programme Officer, ICT in Education Policy
project, UNESCO, Bangkok, who provides a closer
look on ICTs to achieve education for
all. Watch the presentation...
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Tools
and Technology
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NovaMind Mapping
software NovaMind is a good
educational tool for enhancing study skills that
assists in planning course materials and talks in
a very structured, highly visual manner. Read more...
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