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Applying new technologies and cost-effective delivery systems in basic education
Authors: Hilary Perraton and Charlotte Creed
Year: 2000
Sponsored by: Department for International Development, Education Department, 94 Victoria Street, London SW1E 5JL , UK
The preparation of this thematic study was funded by the Department For International Development as part of its contribution to the Education for All 2000 Assessment. The views expressed in it are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the DFID's own policies or views. Any discussion of its content should therefore be addressed to the International Research Foundation for Open Learning and not to the DFID.
This thematic study can be downloaded in full from the global findings on the World Education Forum on the UNESCO website at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001234/123482e.pdf
An Executive Summary can be found at UNESCO education at http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/efa_2000
_assess/studies/techno_1_summary.shtml
Table of Contents
Executive summary
SECTION 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.1 Principles
1.2 Defining terms
1.3 Limits and methodology
1.4 Structure of the report
SECTION 2: OVERVIEW OF STATE OF DEVELOPMENT 1990
2.1 Alternative institutions
2.2 Raising school quality
2.3 Adult education and extension
2.4 Teacher education
2.5 Open Universities and basic education
2.6 Computers
2.7 The specialised agencies
2.8 Conclusion
SECTION 3: SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES 1990-2000
3.1 Global trends in education
3.2 Trends affecting choice of technology
3.2.1 The development towards digitisation
3.2.2 Media liberalisation and fragmentation
3.2.3 Participatory methodologies in development communication
3.2.4 Mainstream status of open and distance learning
3.3 Technologies and their application
3.4 Computers
3.4.1 Rationales for the use of computers
3.4.2 Strategies for getting access
3.4.3 The Internet for professional support
3.5 Broadcasting
3.5.1 Direct class teaching: Interactive radio instruction
3.5.2 Schools broadcasting
3.5.3 Non-formal children's programming
3.6 New technologies and distance education
3.7 Summary
SECTION 4: AUDIENCES AND PROGRAMMES
4.1 Children and adolescents in school
4.1.1 Computers
4.1.2 Educational technologies in the classroom
4.1.3 Broadcasting
4.2 Out-of-school children and adolescents
4.2.1 Alternative secondary systems
4.2.2 Community based approaches
4.2.3 Mass media health campaigning
4.3 Marginalised children and adolescents
4.3.1 Computers
4.3.2 Broadcasting and distance education
4.3.3 Outreach activities
4.4 Adult basic education
4.4.1 Information and communication technologies
4.4.2 Broadcasting
4.4.3 Distance education
4.5 Intermediaries: teachers
4.5.1 Course-based teacher education
4.5.2 Resource-based teacher education
4.5.3 Conclusion
4.6 Intermediaries: health workers
4.6.1 ICT in health education and access to health resources
4.6.2 Broadcasting
4.6.3 Distance education
4.7 Agricultural extension agents
4.7.1 ICT
4.7.2 Broadcasting
4.7.3 Distance education
4.8 Summary
SECTION 5 ASSESSMENT OF EXPERIENCE
5.1 Outcomes
5.1.1 Access and equity
5.1.2 Raising quality
5.1.3 Curricular change
5.2 Costs
5.2.1 Costs achieved in practice
5.2.2 Technology choice and costs
5.3 Conditions for success
5.3.1 Computers
5.3.2 Broadcasts
5.3.3 Distance education
5.4 Funding arrangements
SECTION 6 PROPOSED LINES OF DEVELOPMENT FOR 2000 - 2010
6.1 Leapfrogging
6.2 Underpinning: the need for policy
6.3 Software, training, evaluation
6.4 Conclusion
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