From Nepal to the Nordic countries, innovations in digital learning resources
The recent launch of the E-Pustakalaya digital library in Nepal is one example of the innovative ways that countries are exploring how to provide learning materials to schools in electronic formats....
View ArticleWhat do we know about using mobile phones in education? (part 2)
Recentposts to this blog about the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries have generated a *lot* of page views. News earlier this year that firms in the United States are beginning...
View ArticleUruguay's Plan Ceibal: The world's most ambitious roll-out of educational...
"It is the most profound and irreversible of revolutions" said Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez of the myriad changes that information and communications technologies are having on societies....
View ArticleTop EduTech posts for 2009
The World Bank EduTech blog has just completed its first year of publication.To celebrate our first birthday, we thought we'd look back at the top posts for 2009.The blog was initially conceived as a...
View ArticleTechnology Use and Educational Performance in PISA
Every three years, students around the world participate in an international assessment of their competencies in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy as part of the Programme for International...
View ArticleLearning from Becta
The recent news that Becta, the UK's ICT/education agency, is to be abolished later this year has been met with shock in many quarters outside the UK. (I don't pretend to know how this has been...
View ArticleTop World Bank EduTech blog posts of 2010
The World Bank EduTech blog recently had its second birthday. As we did last year, we thought we'd gather together an idiosyncratic collection of 'top posts' and themes from the past year exploring...
View ArticleWhen students are in charge of maintaining the computers in schools
How do you keep computers in schools in working order? Basic technical maintenance is a perennial challenge for many schools in developing countries. The phenomenon of unused -- and unusable! --...
View ArticleAssessing education with computers in Georgia
One of the fascinating benefits of working at a place like the World Bank is the exposure it offers to interesting people doing interesting things in interesting places that many other folks know...
View ArticleAround the World with Portugal's eEscola Project and Magellan Initiative
When people think of projects around the world to blanket schools with low cost laptops, initiatives associated with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project often spring first to mind. On a country...
View ArticleSurveying Mobile Learning Around the World (part one)
Carla Jimenez I...James LiuAbout four years ago, the World Bank's infoDev program secured funding to do a 'global survey of the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries', based on the...
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