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Today's technological innovations accelerate the persistence of robots for humanitarian purposes. As a significant component, the emerging role of robotics and educational technologies has been growing instantly. Several attempts have been introduced in the education sector to promote robotics education, but successful implementation of learning platforms still pose challenges. This paper highlights...
The benefits from technological changes have been witnessed in almost every sector of the economy through ICT usage, thus encouraging many organisations to plan and prepare for the future. This paper focuses on the education sector in Namibia. Emerging technologies have created a difficult environment for teachers in Namibian schools. Most learners prefer to use the internet, in addition to other...
This study explores how teachers' attitudes and competencies influence their willingness to adopt mobile learning approaches. By mobile learning we mean teaching approaches that use mobile devices to enliven and extend traditional teaching. Of particular interest is exploring how first-order (e.g. lack of adequate access, time, training and support) and second-order (e.g. teacher's pedagogical and...
The ICTWays Network focuses on the use of ICT to support Science teaching classrooms. After identifying existing hardware and software resources in European schools, existing ICT training procedures for teachers, available software for science teaching and current best practices, the partners are working on the development of a Community of Practice for Teachers, as well as providing local workshops...
Results of the research on utilization of information and communication technologies by teachers on the primary school level in the Czech Republic in the Hradec Králové region are summarized in this paper. The aim of the research was to find out how teachers work with technologies in the process of education and what influence these technologies have on work and results of pupils. The ways how pupils...
Education enables the realization of skills, knowledge, attitudes and values that each individual requires to fulfill their work and social goals. It increases economic competitiveness by ensuring the necessary qualities of human resources. One of the priorities of the educational system in the upcoming period should be the assessment of skills and abilities the economy needs as well as their long...
ICT is the ability of teachers in the teaching of the use of information and communication technology needed to master the skills. By training teachers to identify and select the appropriate tools and the using of ICT in teaching the ability to effectively manage the classroom, increasing levels of teachers in using ICT in the classroom, carrying out various forms of teachers' ability of ICT training,...
This paper outlines the key results of a research initiative funded by the European Commission to develop proposals for a European framework for ICT professionalism. The objective of the project is to support the development of a framework that will help mature the ICT profession within Europe and facilitate practitioner mobility.
The paper discusses the significance of Information and Communication Technologies in the Educational sector. With the emergence of ICT's, there has been a rapid change in the way information is exchanged and how people communicate. There has been lot of innovative tools and ways of gathering and sharing information that would have been seem impossible few years back. Digital literacy has become a...
The paper outlines the ISRO's perspective on effective use of digital technologies through satellite communication for societal applications with a special focus on distance education. The paper discusses the ISRO's journey from SITE (Satellite Instructional Television Experiment) to Edusat and explains how these experiences have been put into practice by integrating the modern digital technologies,...
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are increasingly becoming very important for supporting decision-making processes. In fact, the Ministry of Higher Education in Yemen recognizes such roles and therefore, initiated a process for development ICT policy for Higher Education in Yemen. The overall goal of this paper is to review recent progress made at the policy and operational levels...
This paper analyses how far training programme through information and communication technology help in empowering women. The paper has two stages. First, it analyses the training project "Building skills of self help group women in establishing and maintaining information kiosks." through a case study. The second stage of the paper finds out the real status of the trained women after two...
The expanded use of new information technologies has significantly affected both the initiation and the maintenance of professional education. This trend is especially valuable for relatively isolated countries such as Taiwan, where architectural education could be vastly improved by encouraging regular interaction with faculties and practicing professionals outside the country. New, far-reaching...
The current challenge for teachers and trainers is to change the way they teach by becoming competent to integrate ICTs into their traditional teaching methods. To our knowledge few studies, if any, have examined this integration into a continuous training process in the work place. This paper presents the problem, the objectives and the methodology of a study that aims to experiment with a mixed...
In Estonia the graduate education system (by graduate we mean PhD-level education that follows bachelor and master degrees) has been undergoing major modifications. The research-based model has been replaced by more study-oriented model. The number of graduate students is growing rapidly. The society starts to have higher appreciation of the PhD degree. Consequently, the quality of the graduate studies...
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