The UNESCO Prize on ICT use in education
The UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize is perhaps the highest profile international award given to acknowledge excellence in the use of ICTs in education around the world. Created in 2005...
View ArticleICT & Education: Eleven Countries to Watch -- and Learn From
As part of engagements with ministries of education around the world, I am often asked to provide lists of countries considered to be 'best practice examples of ICT use in education'. I am asked this...
View ArticleLearning from national ICT/education agencies
Over 100 education policymakers from 32 countries gathered last week in Seoul to share lessons, experiences and opinions in response to the following question:How should an education system structure...
View ArticleSharing experiences on building national ICT/education agencies
There was a good reason for the recent Global Symposium on Building national ICT/education agencies to have taken place in Seoul. South Korea has demonstrated that making a single specialized agency...
View ArticleWhat happens when all textbooks are (only) digital? Ask the Koreans!
A few years ago, a World Bank study highlighted the fact that there simply aren't enough textbooks for most students in Africa, and what is available is too expensive. In response to this reality,...
View Articlee-Learning in Korea in 2011 and beyond
Each year the World Bank helps sponsor an annual global symposium on ICT use in education for senior policymakers and practitioners in Seoul, together with the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and...
View ArticleRe-thinking School Architecture in the Age of ICT
What will the school of the future look like?Most likely, it will largely look like the school of today -- but that doesn't mean it should. Few will deny that it will most likely, and increasingly,...
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