| 5.1 Expanding Educational Opportunities |
... education where these potential learners are—anywhere and everywhere. 5.1.2 The Potential It is unrealistic to assume that conventional delivery mechanisms will provide educational opportunities for all in affordable and sustainable ways. ICTs have the potential to contribute to the realization of this objective. They can overcome...
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| 5.2 Increasing Efficiency |
... entity organized into classrooms where learners congregate according to a grade structure and that is constrained by the limits of space and time. If a school serves students from grades 1 through 12, it must have at least 12 classrooms to accommodate each grade separately. Each classroom must have at least one teacher. A certain number of...
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| Challenges |
... and unaffordable to continue to ask learners to come to a designated place every time they have to engage in learning. Preparation for the Future. The future is changing so dramatically and quickly that it poses a nightmare for educational decision makers, strategists, and planners. We are educating students for the unknown, so the best...
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| Are the Conditions for ICT Effectiveness Met? |
... to a large extent on the role of learners and teachers as practiced in the educational process and on the purposes behind using ICTs for student learning and for teaching. 5.2 Approach to ICTs Classrooms are constrained environments, and conventional instructional materials are static. If technology-enhanced education programs are...
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| 5.6 Sustaining Lifelong Learning |
... to all of the places where adult learners are. Likewise, it is not feasible to accommodate all learners in adult education centers and offer them programs that meet their many needs. The diversity of requirements and settings calls for a diversity of means. 5.6.2 The Potential ICTs may provide their most valuable contribution in this...
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| 2.1 Expanding Educational Opportunities and Increasing Efficiency |
... PBS LiteracyLink offers learners a GED Connection package to help individuals prepare for the GED test with: 39 video programs, broadcast by public television stations or available as videotapes student workbooks covering reading/writing, social studies/science, and math interactive online learning modules, with practice...
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| Is The Potential Of ICTs Properly Exploited? |
... IRI is a methodology that requires learners to stop and react to questions and exercises through verbal response to radio characters, group work, and physical and intellectual activities, all while the program is on the air. Short pauses are provided throughout the lessons after questions and during exercises to ensure that students have...
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| From Potential to Effectiveness |
... to a large extent on the role of learners and teachers as practiced in the educational process and on the reasons behind using ICTs for student learning and for teaching; see figures 6.1.1 and 6.1.2. Before investing in ICTs, therefore, it is essential to determine: The roles expected of teachers and learners The educational purposes...
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| 5.3 Enhancing Quality of Learning |
... education that enhances the ability of learners to access, assess, adopt, and apply knowledge; think independently; exercise appropriate judgment; and collaborate with others to make sense of new situations. The objective of education is no longer simply to convey a body of knowledge, but to teach how to learn, problem solve, and synthesize...
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| 3.1 Unfinished Business |
... and unaffordable to continue to ask learners to come to a designated place every time they have to engage in learning. Delivery must extend beyond the face-to-face institutional modality to include distance education, enrichment mass media, and nonformal settings. Preparation for the future. We are moving out of the industrial age into...
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| 5.4 Enhancing Quality of Teaching |
... evolved. For learning to take place, learners have to be active, learning has to be meaningful and authentic, and the learning environment should be challenging but not stressful—all easier said than done! Knowledge is expanding rapidly, and much of it is available to teachers and students at the same time. This puts an unavoidable burden...
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| 4.1 Necessity of ICTs |
... museums…) Classrooms Individual learners A teacher (as provider of knowledge) A teacher (as tutor and facilitator) A set of textbooks and some audiovisual aids Multimedia materials (print, audio, video, digital...) Education will not be a location anymore, but an activity: a teaching/learning activity. This is the...
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| 2.4 Facilitating Skill Formation |
... which the instructor and most of the learners are at locations distant from each other (synchronous strategy). A typical course operates much like a college class. Learners meet for one to two hours for the live, facilitated part of the course and work on their own until current assignments, exercises, and readings are complete. Often,...
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| 2.3 Enriching Quality of Teaching |
... necessary, the technology gives learners more control over the information and empowers trainees to set their own pace in the learning process. This flexibility has been used with positive results in teacher training and development programs (Hatfield & Bitter, 1994; Lambdin, Duffy, & Moore, 1997; Mousley & Sullivan, 1996)....
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| 3.1 Infrastructure |
... provides Internet service to Namibia's learners, will be able to hook up hundreds of schools via a narrow-band radio network that will cover most of the densely populated north as well as certain urban pockets. This network will cover almost 900 schools and 54,000 square kilometers. Three Windhoek-area schools have already begun surfing wirelessly....
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| 2.2 Enhancing Quality of Learning |
... demand, and as needed or requested by learners. Instructional designers do not need to anticipate and store them in advance. This approach is computationally more sophisticated and more expensive to produce than is standard computer-based instruction. However, its costs may be justified by the increase in average effect size...
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