CEDICT: Communication, Education and Development using ICT: February 2015

2015-02-28

CAI in mathematics at elementary level in Pakistan - Masters and PhDs

This IJEDICT article is about CAI in mathematics at elementary level in Pakistan. The major objective of the study was to elicit the effect of three instructional methods for teaching of mathematics on low, average and high achiever elementary school students. Three methods: traditional instructional method, computer assisted instruction (CAI) and teacher facilitated mathematics learning software were employed for the teaching of three chapters of six class mathematics textbook (Integers, Algebra and Geometry). Interactive software was developed, using the contents of these three chapters.

2015-02-25

Kenya Climate Innovation Center launches first crowdfunding program in East Africa | infoDev

The Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) — an initiative of the World Bank and its global entrepreneurship program infoDev — has officially launched the first-ever support program for crowdfunding in East Africa. In its pilot phase, the program has helped six clean-tech ventures design, develop, and launch their online crowdfunding campaigns.

ICT4RED: Use of tablets in rural education in South Africa - Masters and PhDs

In an endeavour to find solutions to the country’s improving but ailing education the South African government through some of its department is attempting to find out if the introduction of technology in the class room has the promised potential to improve teaching and learning. The paper is based on a pilot study currently underway in Cofimvaba in Eastern Cape Province where tablets have been introduced in a number of schools to teachers. The paper used Cofimvaba ICT4RED initiative as a case study.

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2015-02-24

Emerging Practices in Open Online Learning Environments

I joined Audrey Watters, Philipp Schmidt, Stephen Downes, and Jeremy Friedberg in Toronto last week, to give a talk at Digital Learning Reimagined, an event hosted and organized by Ryerson University s Chang School.

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New Learning, New Society - by Stephen Downes

Talk given to the Chang School at Ryerson University outline the weakness of traditional models of online learning and arguing instead for a student-centered and self-organized system.

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45 Free Stock Images for E-learning

Here are 45 free stock images for you to use in your e-learning courses. They are curated from the free stock images available via Unsplash.com.

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2015-02-23

Agro-students’ appraisal of online registration of academic courses - Masters and PhDs

With integration of information technology tool for academic course registration in the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, the study assessed the agro-students’ appraisal of the online tool for course registration. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 325 agro-students; and validated and reliable questionnaire was used for collection of data on the study objectives.

Read more: http://ift.tt/1EmClPd;; appraisal of online registration in Nigerian Uni courses: convenient for course registration, reduced stress, guaranteed examination eligibility

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Measurement invariance of the UTAUT constructs in the Caribbean - Masters and PhDs

This article employs confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the factorial validity and the cross-national comparability of the UTAUT constructs with respect to mobile learning in higher education in four Caribbean countries. Except for the measurement of one factor, the UTAUT constructs exhibit adequate reliability and validity.

2015-02-19

How Course Web Design Impacts Student Engagement -- Campus Technology

When Instructure began analyzing the course designs for its higher ed customers, the LMS company discovered something about getting students to interact with the online elements of their courses.

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What It’s Like to Try Magic Leap’s Take on Virtual Reality | MIT Technology Review

A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery.Availability: 1-3 years

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2015-02-18

Frontrunners in ICT: Kenyan runners using smartphones

The primary aim of this research was to study how mobile technology shapes, changes, and develops informal learning outside the classroom and school environment. In this study we provided each of the 30 Kenyan elite runners with a simple Android smartphone and free Internet for one year.

2015-02-16

Commonwealth Scholarships in low and middle income countries - Masters and PhDs

The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is a unique programme. Since its establishment in 1959, it has provided opportunities for over 30,000 citizens of all Commonwealth countries to study in other member countries.

Since the scholarships have traditionally been supported by host governments, the overwhelming majority have been hosted by developed Commonwealth countries. Now, following the establishment of the CSFP endowment fund in 2009, a new strand of Commonwealth Scholarships located in low and middle income countries is available.

How To Find Openly Licensed Educational Resources You Can Use [Infographic]

Most of us turn to the internet when we are looking for resources to use for a presentation, report or article. The internet holds the key to so many robust resources.

Yet how many of these resources can you legally use for free? How many of them can you adapt?

That’s where Open Educational Resources (OER) can help. Here’s an infographic from the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (at the University of Texas at Austin) that can help.

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2015-02-10

The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Education

From inspiring life-long learning to empowering teachers, these organizations are taking the education business to school.

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2015-02-09

Blogging in the foreign language classroom

This study, by Dorota Domalewska, Rangsit University, Thailand, examined the phenomenon of blogging as a technologically enhanced support to develop interaction and interrelatedness among learners in a foreign language course.

Swazi king to wed 15th wife

Swaziland’s King Mswati III has chosen an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant as his 15th wife.

Mswati, a 45-year-old who is sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, introduced Sindiswa Dlamini at a Reed Dance celebration over the weekend, Mtetwa told AFP. She wore red feathers on her head — a sign of royalty.

2015-02-07

Free Access to ICT in Education for Development Journal - Masters and PhDs

Volume 10 Issue 4 of the International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (IJEDICT) was published at the end of December, 2014. You can read, print and share all the articles free of charge.

2015-02-06

MOOC Workshop - Stephen Downes

“Walk away with a plan to integrate MOOCs within your higher education learning environments.” What would such a plan look like? What do we need to support MOOCs? What would such a plan look like? What does content look like in a MOOC? What would we consider ‘MOOC Pedagogy’?

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2015-02-02

Kenyan grandmother at school with her great-great-grandchildren

A 90-year-old Kenyan woman who goes to class with six of her great-great-grandchildren is believed to be the oldest primary school pupil in the world. She joined Leaders Vision Preparatory School five years ago.