CEDICT: Communication, Education and Development using ICT

2013-08-30

At Global Land Rights Conference, Combining High-Tech Mapping Tools with Traditional Knowledge Emerges as Powerful Weapon To Fight Massive Land Grabs

SAMOSIR, NORTH SUMATRA (30 August 2013) - With governments, loggers, miners and palm oil producers poaching their lands with impunity, indigenous leaders from 17 countries gathered on a remote island in Sumatra this week to launch a global fight for their rights that will take advantage of powerful participatory mapping tools combined with indigenous knowledge to mark traditional boundaries.

Read more at: http://participatorygis.blogspot.nl/2013/08/at-global-land-rights-conference.html

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2013-08-29

LAUSD Technology Panel Hammers Out Details Of iPad Project

huffingtonpost.com - A day after LAUSD handed out iPads to kids at two of its campuses, the school board's Technology Committee started its own deep dive into the program that will put a tablet computer in the hands of every student by this time next year.Chaired by Monica Ratliff, who gave up her teaching career after she was elected to the board in May, the panel got an overview Wednesday of Los Angeles Unified's ambitious technology initiative.

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rethinking teaching and learning in south african higher education

Teaching is a complex activity, sapping of energy and creativity, and the learning outcomes are never assured. If someone tells you otherwise they are lying. But we need not despair.

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2013-08-28

Nepal Funds I.C.T Education for Schools

“By improving our education policies, we can become an education hub for the entire South Asian region.” In this recent statement given in Kathmandu, Minister of Education (MoE) Madhav Prasad Paudel cast his vision of Nepal’s future.

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Exploring students acceptance of e-learning using Technology Acceptance Model in Jordanian universities

This paper focuses on the investigation of students, who attempt to successfully adopt e-learning systems at universities in Jordan. The conceptual research framework of e-learning adoption, which ...

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Software patents are now illegal in New Zealand

"A computer program is not a patentable invention."

The above statement is from a bill that just passed in New Zealand.

In a word, free software advocates have won a big battle in a small country, but the ramifications of the decision are encouraging and potentially helpful to the cause.

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The Governments That Want Facebook and Twitter to Hand Over Data

Facebook has now detailed how many user data requests it receives from each country. We can compare it to Twitter by how much governments want their data.

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How big data is changing the world

When the whole world is plugged into the network, there is going to be a vast amount of data to sift through.

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2013-08-27

The underlying inequality of MOOCs

Anybody who has been paying any small amount of attention to educational headlines in the past few years will be well rehearsed in the proposed benefits of MOOCs. A cursory online search will provide you with endless news articles, blog posts, TED talks and accompanying comments that cite the reasons why MOOCs, enabling global access to Ivy League-standard education, are the biggest thing to shake up education in the United States, if not the world. However, repetition does not establish truth, and unsubstantiated claims should be treated with suspicion.

Read more at: http://www.elearning-africa.com/eLA_Newsportal/the-underlying-inequality-of-moocs/