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Education
Exploring the potential of technology to deliver education and skills to Syrian refugee youth
Document Library
May 31, 2016

Increasing access to education and skills development through technology, particularly for ‘21st century skills,’ can offer opportunities for displaced youth. Alternately, not investing in, and encouraging, new and innovative ways of delivering training, skills and education will result in many youth falling further behind. The gap between those who can contribute to the economy and… Read more

conflict-affected states, ICT, refugee children, skills development
Education
Edtech case studies
Helpdesk Report
April 29, 2016

This series of case studies produced by HEART for the UK Department for International Development. Programme experts were consulted in the process through email and phone interviews. Any views and opinions do not necessarily reflect those of DFID or HEART. Each case study contains four sections – the challenge, the impact, research and stakeholders. Case… Read more

case study, edtech, education technology, ICT
Education
Learning gains from ICT use in education
Helpdesk Report
April 28, 2016

This report explores the evidence that online education programmes/tools/apps lead to measurable gains in learning. The strongest evidence comes from a randomised control trial in Malawi. The research reports on a maths tablet intervention that shows significant effects when analysing pre- and post-test data. Another experiment reported in a journal looked at self-organised learning systems… Read more

ICT, Learning gains, Technology
Health
Immediate neuropsychological and behavioral benefits of computerized cognitive rehabilitation in Ugandan pediatric cerebral malaria survivors
Document Library
October 16, 2014

Our earlier studies on Ugandan children surviving cerebral malaria showed cognitive deficits mainly in attention and memory. We now present the first study in sub-Saharan Africa to investigate the feasibility and potential benefits of computerized cognitive rehabilitation training on neuropsychological and behavioural functioning of children surviving cerebral malaria. A randomized trial in which 65 children… Read more

Children, ICT, Malaria
Education
Home visiting programmes: the evolving use of mobile phones
Document Library
October 16, 2014

In  “Learning Begins Early”  issue of Early Childhood Matters,  CCT researchers Dr. Harouna Ba and Loulou Bangura discuss the potential of mobile phone technology to enhance the effectiveness of home-visiting programs in improving early learning among very young children. Pages 59–60.

Children, ICT
Education
Education technology in India: designing ed-tech for affordable private schools
Document Library
May 22, 2014

This report seeks to understand how education technology solutions can be better designed to serve the needs of stakeholders in Affordable Private Schools (APS) in India. APS provide a low-cost private education to communities in India and throughout the developing world. The report’s research explores the trends and opportunities of education technology (ed-tech) in APS,… Read more

education technology, ICT, Private Schools
Education
Improving teaching quality in Guinea with interactive radio instruction
Document Library
May 21, 2014

Between 1998 and 2005 a suite of ICT-based interventions to help the Government of Guinea address its three main educational issues—increasing the number of teachers, increasing teacher quality, and improving instructional quality, particularly in rural areas of Guinea and for girls. The three interventions are discussed in this document: Classroom-based interactive radio instruction (Sous le… Read more

ICT, radio, Teacher Training
Distance education for teacher training: modes, models, and methods
Document Library
May 21, 2014

This publication is a guide to the type of technology modes, education models, and instructional methods used for teacher pre-service and in-service distance learning across the globe. The information here is based on three primary sources. The first is Education Development Center (EDC)’s long history in the area of distance-based education internationally—particularly in the area… Read more

ICT, radio, Teacher Training
Education
Interactive radio instruction: an update from the field. Technologies for Education
Document Library
May 21, 2014

This chapter updates earlier information about interactive radio instruction over the past five years, and introduces two cases where IRI has had an impact in Africa in two ways not captured in the past. In Guinea, IRI has gone to scale on an unprecedented level in West Africa to reach students and teachers on a… Read more

ICT, radio
Education
ICT in education policy and practice in developing countries: South Africa and Chile compared through SITES 2006
Document Library
May 21, 2014

This paper presents a comparison between South African and Chilean results on SITES (Second Information Technology in Education Study) 2006 study, aiming to show and discuss both disparities and similarities, and trying to explain them through an analysis of their ICT in Education policies and national contexts. Firstly, these policies and contexts portray national backgrounds… Read more

chile, ICT, ict policy, south africa
Education
Digital literacy in Ugandan teacher education: Insights from a case study
Document Library
May 21, 2014

This case study investigated the relationship between policy and practice with regard to advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Ugandan teacher education. The qualitative study, conducted in 2008, focused on the experiences of six language teacher educators in an urban Primary Teachers’ College (PTC). The authors also drew on insights from an interview… Read more

ICT, Teacher Training, Uganda
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