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ICT in Education Toolkit Workshop, Malaysia, 25 – 29 June 2007

Participants at the Malaysia workshop.

Participants at the Malaysia workshop.

In June 2007, UNESCO introduced the latest version of the online “ICT in Education Toolkit for Policy Makers, Planners and Practitioners” at a training workshop in Malaysia.

Held in Penang from 25 to 29 June, the workshop brought together a group of 45 policy makers and planners from the Ministry of Education in Malaysia, as well as representatives from the School of Educational Studies at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

The Toolkit, which assists policy makers and planners in planning for the use of ICT in education, came about as part of the UNESCO ICT in Education Policy project, a project supported by Japanese Funds-in-Trust (JFIT) which promotes appropriate policy models and strategies for the integration of ICT into education in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Toolkit was developed by UNESCO in cooperation with project partners Knowledge Enterprise Inc., the Academy for Educational Development, and infoDev.

The workshop is part of a series of national-level workshops being held in the Asia-Pacific region to train groups of education planners and policy makers to use the Toolkit effectively. Previous workshops have been held in Thailand, Fiji, Philippines, Indonesia and Brunei.

Participants at the Malaysia workshop utilized version 2.0 of the Toolkit, which was released in April 2007. Version 2.0 features a number of new elements, including a process for planning multiple projects within a single country simultaneously, tools for conducting surveys, an expanded messaging system, tools to assign specific tasks to individual users or teams, additional user support documentation, as well as a streamlined user interface and a variety of security enhancements. Downloadable versions for installation on Ministry of Education servers and a fully functional off-line version (on CD-ROM) will be available soon.

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