In Conversation
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Changes are to be sustainable
Software Investment Promotion Agency (SIPA) is the government agency in planning and policy making for the software industrial development of Thailand. SIPA’s main missions are related to promotion of software industry, it also promotes teachers and students to learn advanced skills in software development, promotes software developers to take exams to earn professional certifications, besides promoting the use and development of Open Source applications. Manoo Ordeedolchest, the President of SIPA speaking more on SIPA’s contribution to e-learning in an exclusive conversation with Rumi Mallick of Digital Learning. Read More...
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View Point
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The Impact of Computers on Schools:
Two Authors, Two Perspectives
In the view point this week Katie Kashmanian argues that to remain informed about the impact of technology in schools, educators should take note of two contemporary authors with contrast but powerful messages: Donald Tapscott and Jane Healy. Tapscott purports that the Net Generation ("N-Gen") is imposing its culture on all of us, changing the way individuals and society interact. On the other hand Jane Healy examines the potential misuses of technology in our schools. She has comparatively analysed the views of two authors.
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Learning Community this Week
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Editorial
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The wide usages of Information and Communication Technologies and adoption of Open Source technologies in the Indian Education system can revolutionise the learning in rural areas since the plenty of study material can be availed in such deprived areas as well as this technology has low access cost. This week we present challenges and opportunites of Indian education system as our top article written by Venkatesh Hariharan who has deliberated on need for ‘An open source renaissance for Indian education’. The impact of computers on the overall development of students in schools is a well debated issue of our times. Here we are presenting Katie Kashmanian’s views who has comparatively analysed the two contrasting ideas on the impact of computers on schools. We introduce an open source software tool ‘Claroline’. In conversation this week we are presenting the interview of Manoo Ordeedolchest, the President of Software Investment Promotion Agency (SIPA). Digital Learning India 2006 is just three weeks away, we wish you participate, share and learn from this event.
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Top Article
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 Challenges of modernising Indian educational system
An open source renaissance for Indian education
Venkatesh Hariharan [VENKY@REDHAT.COM], Red Hat, India
In a country that has 888,000 educational institutions, 179 million students and more than 2.9 million teachers modernizing the system is a task that requires innovative thinking and a radically new approach.
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Top News
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School in Somerset (UK) gets a broadband Internet connection
Somerset County Council (UK) has announced that the last Local Authority School in Somerset is been hooked up to a broadband Internet connection, in partnership with British Telecom, Cable & Wireless and Research Machines PLC (RM).
Educomp launches online math-learning portal
 Delhi-based Educomp Solutions Ltd. launches a math-learning portal for classes 6 to 12 based on the NCERT curriculum. The product, Mathguru.com, will provide step-by-step solutions for all math problems from NCERT schoolbooks through visual and voice explanation.
e-Science project planned by Chinese Academy of Sciences
e-Science project - a large-scale computer project for data sharing is under plan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The e-Science project aims to tackle the problem of poor data sharing in the scientific community.
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Tools and Technology
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 ClarolineClaroline is a free LMS, online learning management system which is a course based educational tool allowing the teacher to create, admin and feed his courses through the web. Read More...
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Announcement
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Digital Learning India 2006 conference, to be held from 23-25 August at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi, India is organised by Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS). Digital Learning India 2006 is co-organised by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India and UNDP. Global e-Schools and Community Initiative (GeSCI), Dublin, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC),Switzerland, Telecentre.org, Canada, America India Foundation, and Navodaya Vidylaya Samiti are some of the key organizations, who have joined the conference as partners among others. Digital Learning India 2006 will also host an exhibition of latest e-solutions, services, initiatives and case studies from across Asia and beyond in which prominent e-Learning companies have confirmed their participation.
Key sessions of the conference are:
- Digital Learning in India: Vision 2010
- International perspectives in ICT in Education
- Government initiatives in ICT in ‘Education for All’
- Successful Technology integration in classroom
- e-Content for e-Learning
- ICT for Children
- e-learning: process, technology, capacity building
- Public Private Partnerships for ICT in Education
- Roadmap for ICT in education in India
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www.digitallearning.in/dlindia/del_registration.asp
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