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Garron Hillaire

Transformative Education Technologies in Asia 2010 | Articles | FutureGov - Transformin... - 0 views

  • A new study on the role of transformative technologies in Asian tertiary education reveals the critical technologies being prioritised by campus administrators – as well as why. Surprise findings demonstrate that conventional e-learning systems are being superseded by newer technologies aimed to deliver “pedagogical transformation”.
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    I did not buy the article to get the details, but this paper seems pertinent to this course.
Ashley Lee

Mobile phones close literacy gap in Pakistan | Articles | FutureGov - Solutions for Gov... - 0 views

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    a literacy program delivered through mobile phones helped close literacy gap in pakistan
Lindsay Bellino

AEP Government Relations - 0 views

  • , "Moving College Into the 21st Century," (October 1, 2009). "The president is proposing to invest $500 million over the next 10 years to create world-class online college and high school courses that will be available to all 24/7/365."
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    President and Secretary of Education support open source online courses for both higher education and high schools.
Kinga Petrovai

Freedom to fail is what made Steve Jobs - 1 views

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    Let us now argue about how to create the next Jobs Having paid Steve Jobs the full measure of our devotion, let us now argue about how to create the next Steve Jobs. Which choices can governments and educators make that will encourage the next miraculous hybrid of gearhead, design genius, marketing whiz and change catalyst?
Maung Nyeu

Students learn safe ways to surf the net - 0 views

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    In Victoria, Australia, schools are signing up for the eSmart program, a cyber-safety program that is intended help students learn safe ways to surf the net.
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    "This cyber-safety program will eventually be provided to all Victorian government schools and about 300 Catholic schools in the next three years."
Garron Hillaire

BBC News - Digital textbooks open a new chapter - 0 views

  • South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.
  • Preliminary results from a US military "digital tutor" project suggested the time needed to become an expert in information technology could be reduced from years to months, said the White House.
  • An unscrupulous government could relish the fact that everything a child learns is controllable through one, easily manipulated, digital portal.
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    South Korea initiative for digital textbooks - good news?
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