Knowledge and Education to Glare in Every Hinterland of India

Information and
communication development has been one of the major concerns of the United Nations in general and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in particular, since their inception. Minja Yang, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office and Representative to India discusses the responsibilities UNESCO is furthering from different stand points like, as a means of bringing desired social change, paving the path for free flow of information, and institution building Read the interview...

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Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) India is organising the Digital Learning Asia 2007 (www.digitallearning.in/dlasia/) conference from 6-8 February 2007 at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia.

Digital Learning Asia 2007, will bring some of the key drivers from the leading countries of technology-enabled education to deliberate on the most pressing challenges of technology-enabled education from capacity building to reengineering pedagogy, change management to providing digital access.

Some of the highlighted sessions of the forthcoming conference are:

• National Strategies on ICT in education
• Localization, customisation and content development
• Educating the educators
• Reengineering pedagogy
• e-Learning trend and practices in higher education,
• ICT-enabled learning in school education
• Education technology trends in Asia

We invite you to submit papers on any of the conference themes of your expertise. We request you to submit your abstract online by 25 November 2006 at http://www.digitallearning.in/dlasia/2007/
abstractonline.asp or
mail to: manjushree@csdms.in

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If Libyan government is making arrangements for providing laptop computers to its population of 1.2 million school going children, Indian leaders also have recommended the government that every student and every teacher should be given such a device on an ownership basis. Look out for more such developments and examine the status of education worldwide in the news headlines, Digital Learning brings this week. Find out what Cameron Richards of University of Western Australia says regarding a convergent model of knowledge building, and what UK-based Learning Strategist Patrick Dunn recommends to keep alive the Instructional Designs. Also check out for a new assessment and e-learning tool LearnITy, and for event updates. An exclusive chat with Minja Yang, Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office and Representative to India, and an exhaustive report on the Digital Learning India 2006 conference, and an invitation to participate in the Digital Learning Asia 2007 conference add to our attempt to keep you engaged in the world of ICT and Education.

We hope you read, learn and enjoy our newsletter. Please do send us your views and comments.

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Laptop for Indian students pursuing higher education

Indian students pursuing higher education may soon be provided with laptops going by the recommendations of the Oversight Committee.


Hewitt Associates for curricula changes in Indian educational
institutions

Hewitt Associates, a global consulting firm for the outsourcing industry, will provide a road map to the State Governments in India for creating educational institutions that would match the requirement of the industry.

Libyan government to distribute laptops to
schoolchildren

Libyan government has made a deal worth USD250 million deal with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to its population of 1.2 million school going children, as a part of the programme one 'Laptop per Child', supported of the United Nations Development Program.

e Competency for teachers by UNESCO in its
final module

UNESCO's concerted effort of integrating ICTs in teaching and the resultant work 'ICT Competency Standards for Teachers' in partnership with academia and the private sectors including Microsoft, Intel and Cisco has reached its final stage.

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LearnITy: The advanced learning engine

The adaptive assessment and e-learning tool LearnITy, is an online learning system that assesses a student's answers and gives the result within 10 minutes and also helps the student overcome any deficiency in knowledge.  Read More...

Is Instructional Design Dead?

Instructional Systems Design for a long time provided an excuse for the unimaginative to produce turgid learning experiences that kept technology-based training in the dark ages. But in today’s time when the learning industry is trying to reposition itself, people in the learning business have a wonderful opportunity to make their lives and the lives of people who still learn, ever more interesting and fruitful with new skills of Instructional Design. This is how Patrick Dunn hopes for the learning solutions designers, through his piece of write-up published in the e-learningzone. Patrick was formerly a Senior Associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers global e-learning team and is now Senior Learning Strategist with DigitalThink UK.  Read more...

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