Best practices and lessons learned

Countries experiences in the planning and implementing of ICTs in education

Teacher Training and Technology: An Overview of Case Studies and Lessons Learned
http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/CurrentArticles/main.asp?IssueNumber=8&FileType=HTML&ArticleID=195
These case studies from Armenia, China and Singapore are intended to document various models of teacher training and technology, to learn about what does and does not work in a variety of countries and contexts, and to share this knowledge with others who may be considering using technology to improve both teacher training and teaching and learning.

Information and Communication Technologies in Educational management: The Missing link in developing countries
http://www.dpepmis.org/downloads/ict1.pdf
The paper examines the development of ICT in developing countries, with a special focus on educational management.

Development Gateway: ICT for Development
http://www.developmentgateway.com/node/133831/
This site seeks to answers such as: How can people effectively use ICT for development purposes? What are the best practices in extending ICT access and capacity? What are the negative implications, if any, of the introduction of ICT in a development context?

Applying New Technologies and Cost-Effective Delivery Systems in Basic Education
http://www2.unesco.org/wef/en-docs/findings/technofinal.doc
Hilary Perraton and Charlotte Creed - International Research Foundation for Open Learning - February 2000
This is a thorough paper considering the use of technologies in school principally to raise quality, in teacher education, principally to raise quality; and out of school, principally for access. Included is an assessment of experience, taking account of outcomes; conditions for success; costs. and funding arrangements.

Information and Communication Technology in Developing Countries of Asia
http://www.developmentgateway.org/download/155082/adb6.pdf
This paper reviews the development of ICT in the recent past and focuses on the pattern of its growth in Asian countries. Assessment is provided of the development potential of ICT for developing countries of the region and the challenges related to its use.

Ten Lessons for ICT and Education in the developing world
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cr/pdf/gitrr2002_ch04.pdf
This is a report by Robert J. Hawkins for The World Bank Institute dealing with key questions, such as: What defines a quality education in today’s global information-based economy? Has education kept pace with a rapidly changing world? Are there good models for reform that we can follow?

Digital Opportunity Taskforce Report
http://www.dotforce.org/reports/DOT_Force_Report_V5.0h.doc
The Digital Opportunity Task Force brought together 43 teams from government, the private sector, non-profit organizations, and international organizations, representing both developed and developing countries. Here is an in depth examination of the challenge of bridging the digital divide and harnessing the power of ICTs can be found here.

The e-city: Singapore Internet Case Study
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/cs/singapore/material/Singapore.pdf
Discussing matters pertaining to policy and concluding with a framework for analysing the condition of the internet in a country, this document can be taken as an example of best practice, especially in the role of the government in successful ICT integration.

A Critical Analysis of Adoption and Utilization of the Internet in Thailand for Educational Purposes
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_1/prammanee/index.html
This paper presents how the Thai government adopted the Internet into their educational systems by looking at the “diffusion-of-innovation” theory.

Survey of Information and Communications Technology in Schools 2001 - DfES United Kingdom
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/statistics/DB/SBU/b0296/sb09-2001.pdf
This report provides information technical infrastructure in schools in the UK. Most notably, analysis is also made of teacher usage and their confidence in the use of ICTs in the curriculum. The report includes a sample of the questionnaire used in the survey, providing a possible model for the development of similar surveys in other countries.

Case study: ICT in International Schools in Southeast-Asia
http://www.nzpf.ac.nz/ict_article.htm
This article provides three examples of ICT use in international schools in Southeast-Asia, explaining issues arising in New Zealand in implementation of ICT use in education. Three questions are tackled here, namely how these international schools organise and deliver ICT programmes; which issues, problems or dilemmas they are faced; and what New Zealand can learn from them.

Korea: Education Toward ICT for All
http://aemm.moe.edu.sg/asp/asp_aemmpaper/paper/9)_IT_Case_Study_ROK_4_Mar_00.PDF
The paper Information and Communications Technology for All: Preparing Korean Education for the Knowledge-Based Society outlines the use of information technology in a learning society.

Japan: Vision and Goals Toward Education
http://aemm.moe.edu.sg/asp/asp_aemmpaper/paper/12)_sub-theme_a_Japan.PDF
This paper outlines Japan's visions and goals toward education for the 21st century. It deals with the advent of an advanced information and communication society and the meaning of information in social life, governmental policies on innovation in education through the use of new technology and the use of ICT in Japanese education.

Australia's ECOTECH Action Plan
http://www.apecsec.org.sg/download/ecotech/EAP-aus.pdf
Australia's ECOTECH (economics and technology) action plan provides an overview of key Australian policies in terms of human resources development (HDR). It foresees providing quality basic education; analysing the regional labour market to allow sound forecasting of trends and needs in HDR; increasing the supply and enhancing the quality of managers, entrepreneurs, scientists, and educators; and improving the quality of curricula, teaching methods, as well as instructional materials.

Basic IT Strategy - Japan
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/it/council/basic_it.html
Japan wants to establish an environment where the private sector can exert its full potential and make Japan the world's most advanced IT nation within five years. How they plan to do this is detailed here.

Korea: Virtual Education at the Tertiary Level
http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_active_pages2/CurrentArticles/main.asp?IssueNumber=16&FileType=HTML&ArticleID=385
This article reports Korean national experiences in integrating virtual education into higher education through self standing virtual universities and introducing virtual education in conventional universities. Allowing more flexibility and openness in distance education will be key issues for distance educators and policy-makers.

Information Accessibility, User Sophistication, and Source Credibility: The Impact of the Internet on Value Orientations in Mainland China
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol7/issue2/Abstract
This academic paper, written by professors at City University, Hong Kong, provides some excellent insights into who is currently using the Internet in China, what it is they are using the Internet for and media impact on their value orientations. Specifically, it examines "how the adoption and use of the Internet affect Chinese audiences' identification with three competing value orientations: Communism, Materialism, and Post-materialism." The report is based on interviews with 2,600 adult residents in Beijing and Guangzhou.