Learner Centered Education in the Knowledge Age
paper writen and presented by: Dr. Josep Rota and Dr. sandra Turner OHIO University Abstarct A central premise of this presentation is that higher education is undergoing a paradigm shift as we change our conception of a university is a place of teaching and replace it with a new model of a university as a place of learning. Central to this change are three key elements: (1) the role that the new technologies of information and communication are playing not only in the dissemination of...
Transformation Strategies for Delivering 21st Century Teaching Today’s Multimedia Students
Transformation Strategies for Delivering 21st Century Teaching Today’s Multimedia Students By: Kenny Ng Abstract: Over the past decades, modern technologies have transformed many aspects of our life, including how we communicate, how we spend our free time, and especially how we work. As our life and workplace demands have changed as a result of this “technological revolution,” so have conceptions of the skills and knowledge children will need to become successful adults and the...
Indicators to Measure the Impact of ICT Use in Education
The history of collecting meaningful data about the use of IT (ICT) in schools is relatively short. Microcomputers have been used in schools since 1979. The first survey carried out by the Department of Education and Science (DES) in the UK was in March 1990, the results being published as a Statistical Bulletin in June 1991. Mr Aston’s report provided a historical summary of the conduct of impact studies of ICT on education in the United Kingdom and Western European countries. He touched o...
ICT in Education: Manual Guide from UNESCO
Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now regard understanding ICT and mastering the basic skills and concepts of ICT as part of the core of education, alongside reading, writing and numeracy. One of UNESCO’s overriding aims is to ensure that all countries, both developed and developing, have access to the best educational facilities necessary to prepare young people to play full...
E-Learning Implementation at Indonesian Universities: Policy issues and Challenges
by: T. Basaruddin (Dean – Faculty of Computer Science – UI)
[email protected] Abstract The university’s approach towards learning has long been considered as one of the least developed areas as far as university development is concerned. By and large, universities are still very much dominated by the so-called teacher-centered learning. Nonetheless, with the advancement of communication and information technology, there has been a notable attempt by most universities to improve thei...
The capacity of Information and Communications Technology to act as a catalyst of change (both positive and negative) in the realm of education is irrefutable. The concern, however, in most of the developing world is the potentially high cost of implementing ICT in education and a distinctive lack of empirical evidence of the success of such implementation. The existence of infrastructure in and of itself is not enough. A critical element to success in the use of ICT in education is the training...
Need Assessment Kebijakan ICT dalam Pendidikan di Asia Tenggara
Menurut hasi meta survey yang dilakukan oleh UNESCO, tahun 2004, kebanyakan negara-negara di Asia Tenggara belum memiliki kebijakan khusus tentang ICT untuk pendidikan. Berbeda dengan engara lain di Asia seperti Sinagpura, Korea, Jepang dan lain-lain. Mengingat permasalahan tersebut, UNESCO tahun 2004 melakukan suatu analisis kebutuhan (needs assessment) tentang hal tersebut. Indonesia, adalah salah satu negara yang sampai saat ini belum memiliki kebijakan khusus tentang ICT dalam pendidikan....
Pengembangan Bahan Belajar berbasis Web
Koesnandar Kepala Subbidang Pendidikan Menengah dan Tinggi Pusat Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi, Depdiknas Perkembangan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) sangat pesat, menurut catatan www.internetworldstats.com/ saat ini ada satu milyard pengguna internet di dunia. Penetrasi internet di Asia adalah 10%, sedangkan di Amerika mencapai 67%. Indonesia menduduki urutan ke 13 pengguna internet dunia dengan jumlah pengguna internet tahun 2006, sebanyak 18 juta orang. Angka itu menca...
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