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Claro, Magdalena; Jara, Ignacio – Digital Education Review, 2020
This article analyzes the reasons behind the end of the ICT in education policy (Enlaces) driven by the Chilean Ministry of Education for 25 years. The argument is that the institution that sought to give sustainability to this policy over time, ended up losing its ability to lead relevant responses to the educational challenges posed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational History, Information Technology
European Training Foundation, 2021
Education and training systems need the right tools and processes to plan and develop their digital capacity. SELFIE for work-based learning (SELFIE WBL) provides one such tool. SELFIE stands for self-reflection on effective learning by fostering the use of innovative educational technologies. SELFIE WBL is a self-reflection tool for vocational…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Program Implementation, Pilot Projects, Teaching Methods
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Leask, Marilyn; Jumani, Nabi Bux – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development periodically surveys teaching and learning issues (the TALIS surveys) in the most developed countries. In their 2009 report, they commented that although teacher quality is the fundamental component in high performing systems, the education sector has been slow to develop systemic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Teacher Effectiveness, Cross Cultural Studies
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Shen, Lisa; Cassidy, Erin Dorris; Elmore, Eric; Griffin, Glenda; Manolovitz, Tyler; Martinez, Michelle; Turney, Linda M. – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
Although many recent studies have been conducted on the implementation and results of patron-driven acquisition (PDA) initiatives at academic libraries, very few have focused on whether, or how, patrons' selections vary from selection choices librarians would have made. This study compares titles selected by patrons during a PDA pilot program…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Librarians
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Grant, Donna M.; Malloy, Alisha D.; Murphy, Marianne C.; Foreman, Jovanna; Robinson, Rowena A. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
A college degree is not what it used to be in respect to securing future employment. Constantly changing technologies in a struggling economy make it necessary for organizations to carefully balance recruitment staffing, particularly with regards to new hires. Organizations want to know that each new hire can add value immediately. In order to add…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Program Effectiveness, Information Technology, Models
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Smith, Christopher J. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
In 1998, as part of what was then Zambia's Department of Technical Education and Vocational Training's (DTEVT) human resources capacity building initiative, under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Vocational Training (MSTVT), donor funding was secured to provide degree-level training for key teachers and managers within the technical…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Pilot Projects, Adult Vocational Education, Bachelors Degrees
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Williams, Josie R.; Mechler, Kathy; Akins, Ralitsa B. – Journal of Rural Health, 2008
Context: The peer review process in small rural hospitals is complicated by limited numbers of physicians, conflict of interest, issues related to appropriate utilization of new technology, possibility for conflicting recommendations, and need for external expertise. Purpose: The purpose of this project was to design, test, and implement a virtual…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Physicians, Rural Areas, Hospitals
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Office of Technology Assessment. – 1993
This background paper analyzes technologies for tomorrow's information superhighways. Advanced networks will first be used to support scientists in their work, but will soon be deployed more widely in business, entertainment, health care, and education. Significant progress has been made toward the development of gigabit network technology since…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Information Networks, Information Technology
Ives, Cindy; McWhaw, Katherine; De Simone, Christina – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2005
It is widely assumed that developments in information and communication technologies are fundamentally transforming and improving higher education. As a part of an ongoing evaluation of technology-supported pedagogy in one university, our three-year research project was designed, on the one hand, to determine if and how selected technologies were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Innovation, Pilot Projects, Educational Technology
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Thurab-Nkhosi, Dianne; Lee, Marilyn; Gachago, Daniela – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2005
Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi, Marilyn Lee, and Daniela Gianni-Gachago examine the University of Botswana's (UB) e-learning initiative headed by the Educational Technology Unit (EduTech). EduTech promotes change campus-wide by encouraging partnerships among UB's information technology department, library, Center for Continuing Education, and academic…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Continuing Education, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
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Barnes, Lyn; Scutter, Sheila; Young, Janette – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2005
Online education, supported by online resources such as e-mail, chat rooms, and Web-based instruction, is a rapidly growing area of tertiary/higher education that has been facilitated by increased usage of home computers and advances in the development of user-friendly interfaces. A range of positive outcomes has accompanied the growth of online…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Summer Schools, Web Based Instruction