Capacity Building For It In Education In Developing Countries

Author : Gail Marshall,Mikko Ruohonen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387351957

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Capacity Building for IT in Education in Developing Countries by Gail Marshall,Mikko Ruohonen Pdf

Deryn Watson CapBIT 97, Capacity Building for Information Technologies in Education in Developing Countries, from which this publication derives, was an invited IFIP working conference sponsored by Working Groups in secondary (WG 3. 1), elementary (WG 3. 5), and vocational and professional (WG 3. 4) education under the auspices ofIFIP Technical Committee for Education (TC3). The conference was held in Harare, Zimbabwe 25th - 29th August 1997. CapBIT '97 was the first time that the IFIP Technical Committee for Education had held a conference in a developing country. When the Computer Society of Zimbabwe offered to host the event, we determined that the location and conference topic reflect the importance of issues facing countries at all stages of developmen- especially Information Technologies (IT) development. Information Technologies have become, within a short time, one of the basic building blocks of modem industrial society. Understanding IT, and mastering basic skills and concepts of IT, are now regarded as part of the core education of all people around the world, alongside reading and writing. IT now permeates the business environment and underpins the success of modem corporations as well as providing government with cost-effective civil service systems. At the same time, the tools and technologies of IT are of value in the process of learning, and in the organisation and management of learning institutions.

Author : Gail Marshall,Mikko Ruohonen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1475747071

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Capacity Building for It in Education in Developing Countries by Gail Marshall,Mikko Ruohonen Pdf

Author : David Stephens
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927229

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Higher Education and International Capacity Building by David Stephens Pdf

For the past 25 years UK Higher Education institutions have forged research and teaching partnerships with their counterparts overseas. Many of these links were funded by the British Government and managed by the British Council’s Higher Education Links Scheme. This book takes an informed and critical look at issues and trends in global higher education over the past twenty five years with an in-depth and often personal account of how these links were managed and led. Ten experts representing a variety of disciplines from areas such as conserving the natural environment, the promotion of human rights, and education and gender present an ‘insider’s’ view of their link, reflecting upon the successes and challenges in promoting research, developing institutional capacity at home and abroad, and the lessons they have learned. This book will be of particular interest to those working in higher education and international development generally; as well as students, researchers and professionals engaged in bilateral and multi-lateral development assistance programmes.

Author : François Bourguignon,Yehuda Elkana,Boris Pleskovic
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821365960

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Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research by François Bourguignon,Yehuda Elkana,Boris Pleskovic Pdf

This book presents papers from the conference on "Scaling up the Success of Capacity Building in Economic Education and Research," which took place in Budapest at the Central European University campus. It includes contributions from key researchers, academics and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries that identify and brainstorm on capacity building challenges.

Author : Faccini, Benedict,Salzano, Carmela
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789230010102

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Capacity Development for Education for All by Faccini, Benedict,Salzano, Carmela Pdf

Author : OECD,The World Bank
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264038493

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Cross-border Tertiary Education A Way towards Capacity Development by OECD,The World Bank Pdf

This book discusses the concept of capacity-building for tertiary education through cross-border education, emphasising the critical role of quality assurance and trade negotiations.

Author : Alfred J. Watkins,Michael Ehst
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821373811

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Science, Technology, and Innovation by Alfred J. Watkins,Michael Ehst Pdf

This book summarizes, and highlights main messages from, a February 2007 Global Forum convened by the World Bank to discuss strategies, programs, and policies for building science, technology and innovation (STI) capacity to promote sustainable growth and poverty reduction in developing countries.

Author : F. Desmond McCarthy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290703800

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Creating Partnerships for Capacity Building in Developing Countries by F. Desmond McCarthy Pdf

McCarthy, Bader, and Pleskovic discuss a variety of experiences in a number of transition and developing countries to build institutional capacity for economics education. A flexible approach met with some success. The approach uses partnerships that combine the often different needs of a number of private donors with the World Bank on the supply side. Much of the success was due to adopting each effort to the individual country situation. The authors also provide a brief summary of five academic institutions and four research networks in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.This paper - a product of Partnerships, Capacity Building, and Outreach, Development Economics - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to build capacity for economic education.

Author : Sheila Jagannathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000391220

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Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development by Sheila Jagannathan Pdf

Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive playbook for education leaders, policy makers, and other key stakeholders leading the modernization of learning and development in their institutions as they build a high value knowledge economy and prepare learners for jobs that don't yet exist. Currently, nearly every aspect of human activity, including the ways we absorb and apply learning, is influenced by disruptive digital technologies. The jobs available today are no longer predicators of future employment, and current and future workforce members will need to augment their competencies through a lifetime of continuous upskilling and reskilling to meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This book features curated insights and real-world cases from thought leaders throughout the world and identifies major shifts in content formats, pedagogic approaches, technology frameworks, user and design experiences, and learner roles and expectations that will reshape our institutions, including those in emerging economies. The agile, lean, and cost-effective strategies proposed here will function in scalable and flexible bandwidth environments, enabling education leaders and practitioners to transform brick-and-mortar learning organizations into digital and blended ecosystems and to achieve the United Nation’s ambitious Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Douglas Horton
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552501115

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Evaluating Capacity Development by Douglas Horton Pdf

The perspective that informs this important book is that every evaluation of a capacity development effort should itself contribute to the capacity development effort and ultimately to the organization’s performance. This is a revolutionary idea in evaluation. With the idea have come the questions: Can it be done? And, if it is done, what will be the consequences? This book elucidates and deepens the idea, shows it can be done, and examines the consequences, both intended and unintended, of engaging in capacity development evaluation

Author : Yasushi Hirosato,Yuto Kitamura
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402093777

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The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia by Yasushi Hirosato,Yuto Kitamura Pdf

Yasushi Hirosato and Yuto Kitamura Developing countries, including Southeast Asian countries, face an enormous challenge in ensuring equitable access to quality education in the context of deepening globalization and increasing international competition. They must simultaneously meet the goals of Education for All (EFA) at the basic education level and of developing a more sophisticated workforce required by the knowledge-based economy at the post-basic, especially tertiary, education level. To meet this challenge, developing countries need to reform/renovate their education systems and service deliveries as an integral part of national development. However, most of them have not yet fully developed the individual, institutional, and system capacities in undertaking necessary education reforms, especially under decentralization and privatization requiring new roles at various (central and local, or public and private) levels of administration and stakeholders. Provided that an ultimate vision of educational development and cooperation in the twenty-first century would be to develop indigenous capacity in engineering education reforms, this book analyzes the overall education reform context and capacity, including the status of sector program support using the sector-wide approach (SWAp)/program-based approach (PBA) in developing countries. We also address how different stakeholders have been interacting in order to promote equitable access to quality education, particularly from the perspectives of capacity development under the system of decentralization.

Author : Kenneth King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Absorptive capacity (Economics)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082114948

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Building Capacities in the Developing World by Kenneth King Pdf

Author : World Bank Group
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781464810985

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World Development Report 2018 by World Bank Group Pdf

Every year, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR) features a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 WDR—LEARNING to Realize Education’s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social change. The best way to equip children and youth for the future is to make their learning the center of all efforts to promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education’s promise: education is a powerful instrument for eradicating poverty and promoting shared prosperity, but fulfilling its potential requires better policies—both within and outside the education system. Second, the need to shine a light on learning: despite gains in access to education, recent learning assessments reveal that many young people around the world, especially those who are poor or marginalized, are leaving school unequipped with even the foundational skills they need for life. At the same time, internationally comparable learning assessments show that skills in many middle-income countries lag far behind what those countries aspire to. And too often these shortcomings are hidden—so as a first step to tackling this learning crisis, it is essential to shine a light on it by assessing student learning better. Third, how to make schools work for all learners: research on areas such as brain science, pedagogical innovations, and school management has identified interventions that promote learning by ensuring that learners are prepared, teachers are both skilled and motivated, and other inputs support the teacher-learner relationship. Fourth, how to make systems work for learning: achieving learning throughout an education system requires more than just scaling up effective interventions. Countries must also overcome technical and political barriers by deploying salient metrics for mobilizing actors and tracking progress, building coalitions for learning, and taking an adaptive approach to reform.

Author : Shobhana Sosale
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0821342541

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Educational Publishing in Global Perspective by Shobhana Sosale Pdf

The chain of stakeholders associated with educational books is long and impressive. By contrast, our information about the educational book publishing industry has been fragmented at best. To consolidate and share this information, a seminar on "Understanding the Educational Book Industry" was organized by the World Bank in Washington, D.C., September 9-10, 1997. This report reflects the deliberations that emerged from that seminar. The seminar focused on four themes: policies for the provision of educational materials; the publishing industry growth in developing countries; thorny issues such as procurement, protection, and copyright; and longer-term solutions. Over the last three years the World Bank has lent approximately US$550 million in one form or another for textbook components within education projects. With textbooks continuing to be such a rarity in developing countries, we need to pause and ask the questions: Are current processes effective? Do we know enough about the educational book industry to claim that we have helped to promote literate societies? This report attempts to answer these and other questions toward the ultimate goal of educating society.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Ocean Studies Board,Committee on the Review of the Scientific Accomplishments and Assessment of the Potential for Future Transformative Discoveries with U.S.-Supported Scientific Ocean Drilling
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309219013

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Scientific Ocean Drilling by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Ocean Studies Board,Committee on the Review of the Scientific Accomplishments and Assessment of the Potential for Future Transformative Discoveries with U.S.-Supported Scientific Ocean Drilling Pdf

Through direct exploration of the subseafloor, U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling programs have significantly contributed to a broad range of scientific accomplishments in Earth science disciplines, shaping understanding of Earth systems and enabling new fields of inquiry. Scientific Ocean Drilling: Accomplishments and Challenges reviews the scientific accomplishments of U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling over the past four decades. The book evaluates how the programs (Deep Sea Drilling Project [DSDP], 1968-1983, Ocean Drilling Program [ODP], 1984-2003, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program [IODP], 2003-2013) have shaped understanding of Earth systems and Earth history and assessed the role of scientific ocean drilling in enabling new fields of inquiry. This book also assesses the potential for transformative discoveries for the next proposed phase of scientific ocean drilling, which is scheduled to run from 2013 to 2023. The programs' technological innovations have played a strong role in these accomplishments. The science plan for the proposed 2013-2023 program presents a strong case for the continuation of scientific ocean drilling. Each of the plan's four themes identifies compelling challenges with potential for transformative science that could only be addressed through scientific ocean drilling, although some challenges appear to have greater potential than others. Prioritizing science plan challenges and integrating multiple objectives into single expeditions would help use resources more effectively, while encouraging technological innovations would continue to increase the potential for groundbreaking science.