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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Mendez, María-Eugenia; Valdez-Jiménez, Liliana; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Fonseca-Ramirez, Oscar-Hernan; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodriguez-Ramirez, Sergio-Esteban; Alvarez-Gomez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesus; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Needs, Educational Change, Latin Americans
Light, Daniel; Pierson, Elizabeth – Center for Children and Technology, Education Development Center, Inc, 2012
One-to-one computing programs and laptop programs have been a popular approach to education reform in developing countries over the last decade. A motivation behind so many one-to-one laptop programs is the desire to overcome with one powerful resource the historical lack of educational tools and resources available in developing countries.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Laptop Computers
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Abuhmaid, Atef – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly having pervasive role and presence in the educational milieu as it continues to shape all aspects of our lives. Numerous reform projects have been in place aiming to infuse ICT across education systems. Teachers are widely believed to be the key agents of any educational change.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, School Culture, Educational Change
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Pandey, Sid N. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 1997
Discusses attempts by Botswana to expand and modernize its educational system using new technology in light of Jacques Ellul's ideas on technology and Ivan Illich's views on education. Problems encountered in adopting technology are used as cautions for developing countries attracted to new technology for mass education. Highlights relevance of…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Principles
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Amiel, Tel – AACE Journal, 2006
No other information and communication technology has swept the globe with greater speed than the Internet, having the potential to promote vast social, economic, and political transformations. As new technologies become available the pattern of adoption and diffusion creates disparities in access and ownership. At the most basic this gap is…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Internet, Technology Integration
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de Fatima D'Assumpcao Castro, Maria; Alves, Luiz Anastacio – Computers & Education, 2007
The introduction of computer technology has touched off an actual revolution for teaching and learning activities. In the present study, we investigated the impact of the implementation and use of computers in the public school system, from the elementary grades to high school, in Niteroi city, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). This city, with a total…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Equipment Maintenance, Computers
Collis, Betty, Ed.; And Others – 1995
This document contains 21 papers from an international workshop designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas concerning the use of information technology in teacher education among experts from Central, Eastern, and Western Europe. The papers include: (1) "Communication and Information Technologies as Change Agents" (Jef Moonen); (2)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Developing Nations
Jonkoping Univ. (Sweden). – 1990
This volume contains the 30 formal papers that were accepted for the European and Third World Gender and Science and Technology (GASAT) Conference. The theme of the conference was "Science and Technology, A Future for All?" The papers are presented in two parts and organized into four frames. Part one contains papers, reporting empirical…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Developing Nations
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Johari, A. Rajab; And Others – International Review of Education, 1986
Six individual articles describe the Indonesian distance education satellite system; technology's impact on education in China; computers in public education in Hungary; utilization of educational television in Niger, the Ivory Coast, and Senegal (written in French); the Japanese University of the Air; and educational technology in the Arab world.…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Uses in Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
Sharma, Motilal – 1997
Educational technology has changed the definition of classroom in terms of location, size, composition, learning environment, and teacher role. Educational technology in developing nations helps accommodate people in poor and rural areas. Distance education through open universities has increased in several countries. It includes two-way…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Continuing Education, Developing Nations, Distance Education
Wolff, Laurence; Castro, Claudio de Moura – 2000
This paper synthesizes the issues, problems, research, and current best practice in secondary education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Overall, Latin America and the Caribbean enroll much lower percentages of school age children in secondary education than the region's chief competitors, and the region's secondary education is inadequate by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Developing Nations, Diversity (Student)
Gaible, Edmond; Burns, Mary – Online Submission, 2005
This handbook is intended to help decision makers in developing-country governments and donor agencies in their efforts to utilize information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve and expand teacher professional development (TPD) activities. To the extent possible in a brief work, the handbook combines a global perspective--including…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Faculty Development
Jalaluddin, A. K. – Prospects, 1990
Considers how computers may affect lifelong learning especially in developing nations. Suggests computers may qualitatively change education and liberate existing systems from centralization and curriculum- and examination-driven environments. Expresses concern that modernization may widen the information gap between developed and developing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Tait, Alan, Ed.; Mills, Roger, Ed. – 2003
This book contains 16 papers on learner support in distance education in an international context. The following papers are included: "Constructivism or Confucianism? We Have the Technology, Now What Shall We Do With It?" (Louise Aylward); "Exploring Informal Study Groups in a South African Teacher Education Programme" (Carol…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Ancillary School Services, Change Strategies
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