EDITORIAL
Technology in Education – Are we on the right track?
COVER STORY
Learning, Innovation, and A Way Forward The USAID experience in India
Sourav Banerjee
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
Education via PDA Technology Designing effective learning Objects
Daniel Churchill
Reducing Teachers Absenteeism Camera school experiment Priyanka Singh
PERSPECTIVE
Rajasthan Education Initiative
INDIA STATESCAN
Chhattisgarh Going beyond ‘last mile connectivity’
REGULARS
News India
EDITORIAL
Celebrating innovation and enterprise in Digital Learning Asia 2006
COVER STORY
UNESCO SchoolNet-Learning network in eight Asia-Pacific countries
Alexa Joyce, Bangkok
FOCUS ON ASIA
University ICT4D University as producer and disseminator of ICT4D knowledge
Christopher T Coward and Colim ,M. Maclay
Microsoft’ Partners-in- Learning Initiative An Asia Pacific Overview
Vincent Quah
Augmenting distance learning on the broadcast networks Rama Vennelakanti and Hansa P Joshi
CONFRENCE REPORT
Intel PC making rural community the end user 29 March, 2006, Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi, India
REGULARS
News Asia
Open Content in a virtualised real world
India Statescan
Jammu and Kashmir The winds of change Mohammad Manzoor Bhat talks to ,Sanjeev Kr. Shrivastav
Practitioner’s Voice A vision makes the difference Face to Face: Namrata Kumar, Uttaranchal, India
PERSPECTIVE
E-Learning pedagogy TSOI© Model Mun Fie TSOI, Republic of Singapore
REGULARS
News
FOCUS ON ASIA
NSTDA Online Learning Project (NOLP) Providing e-Learning solutions
to the learning community Surasit Vannakrairojn, NOLP,
Room for Life Life-long learning for rural Thailand John Hawker and Kevin Elder Sat-ED
STATESCAN
A click on progress Learning goes Kerala model K M Ramanandhan talks to
Sanjeev Kr. Shrivastav
e-Strategies and k- Strategies for e-ducation Did we miss knowledge?
CONFERENCE REPORT
Linux Asia 2006 Asia’s open source conference and expo, 8-10, February, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
REGULARS
News
EDITORIAL
Partnerships: Little steps to lofty goals
COVER STORY
Forty years of Collective Decision Making Southeast Asian Ministers Education Organisation
PARTNERSHIPS MODELS
India Inc. Leads the Way Blueprint for a Knowledge Society The President of India presents his vision,
Networking for Capacity Building Cisco Network Academy Program
Lokesh Mehra, Cisco Systems
EXHIBITION REPORT
Thailand Animation and Multimedia (TAM) 2006, 12-15 January, 2006
REGULARS
Bookshelf
Market Place, Hong Kong Education City
On the web, http://portal.unesco.org/education
EDITORIAL
Going beyond education!
COVER STORY/OVERVIEW
Collaborating for learning in 2005 Rumi Mallick
TREND
e-Learning for small groups: The Diplo Foundation’s experience, Kishan S Rana
Space technology in education Indian context Shyamal Mehta
PERSPECTIVE
Sound schooling – Radio for distance education Sajan Venniyoor
CONFERENCE REPORT
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), 2005, Tunisia
FEATURES
Bookshelf
News Statescan Rajasthan Education Initiative – A vision for education
On the web www.ict-in-class.net
EDITORIAL
Interactive @ Classroom
COMMENTARY
Transforming Teaching and Learning Nancy Knowlton
eBeam: Turning Whiteboard to a Digital Workplace
SPECIAL REPORT
A Watch on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Interview:
Meena Bhatt, State Project Director, SSA, Government of Gujarat
CASE STUDY
The Revolution of Interactive Whiteboards in Indian School
PRODUCT GALLERY
Easy Does TeamBoard
mimio Interactive Interview: Jaemes Shanley, Director of Sales & marketing for
Sanford brands, mimio
HIGHER EDUCATION
Digital Media School Deploys Render Farm Technology,
Cuts Compute Runtime by Days
SCHOOL TRACK
Appejay School, Noida
REGULARS
Bookshelf
NEWS
India
EDITORIAL
Plugging schools in to the information age
COUNTRY STORY
Education, Unplugged: Schools Make Cable-Free Connections Russell Fortmeyer
COVER STORY
ICT Usage in 1000 Schools of India Vivek Bharadwaj
SMART TOOLS
Top Tools for Getting Kids Smart in Classroom
IN PRACTICE
An ASSET for Schools Vaishali Shah
PROJECT
Connecting, Combining, and Colloborating Learning Jason Wong
LEADERS’ SPEAK
Soumya Kanti Purkayastha President ICT Educomp Solutions Ltd.
RESEARCH
Designing a Business Model to Help Students Learn Math Dr Gaurav Bhatnagar
CASE STUDY
Intel: Mobilising Communities, Creating Trust
SCHOOL TRACK
Pathways World School
AWARDS & EXCELLENCE
Computer Literacy Excellence Awards for Schools 2005
THE FOYER
Conference for E9 Countries on ICT, Bangalore
REGULARS
Blog Book
NEWS
India
EDITORIAL
A Year On The e-Learning Way!
COVER STORY
From Structuralists toInstrumentalists, Ayse Kok
TRAINERS’ LITERACY
MKCL’s Online Certification Test for IT Literacy Trainers Vivek Sawant,
Revati Namjoshi, Umesh Mathew, Amit Ranade
COMMUNITY LITERACY
Bridges to the Future in India Prof. Dan Wanger, Dr E S Sridharan and Prof. C J Daswani
CORPORATE DIARY
Project – Smart Teaching and Learning Inside the Classroom
COREECS Extends Solution to Improve Collection,
Management, and Reporting of Student Data
Rapid and Compliant e-Learning Content Development for Corporate
Srishail Chari and Alok R Tiwari
SCHOOL TRACK
Innovative Educator in the World – Umesh Pandey
AWARDS & EXCELLENCE
Indian Students in Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
THE FOYER
UQSE – 2007
REGULARS
Blog Book
NEWS
India
EDITORIAL
Digital Learning Turns Three!
COMMENTARY
Shri Arjun Singh Minister, HRD
ICT VISION OF GOVERNMENT
N K Sinha ,Ministry of HRD
CENTER VS STATE
T M Vijay Bhaskar
Secretary, Education, Karnataka
CORPORATE DIARY
Anshul Sonak, Intel
CASE STUDIES
Reaching Out With Technology
Distance Learning Centre @ IIM Bangalore
Education Data Warehouse: Better Data is… Better Education
Interactive White boards in Schools
Building A Unique Technology Company
Intel Leads By Empowering Lives
Access To 100 Universities In India
NEWS
India
ARTICLES
Empowering Disabled Communities in Asia
Vincent Quah, Microsoft
PPP: Improving Social Infrastructure and Quality in Education
Interview: Dr Shabnam Sinha, IL&FS ETS
HIGHER EDUCATION
Dr Sukhdeo Thorat, UGC
Open Source Open Boundaries Open Source in Education, Freeman Murray
Open Source – CII Shiksha Way Narinder Bhatia
