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Entries Tagged "eBooks"

Hardware Costs are not a Barrier for ICT Use in Literacy and Reading

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Tags: Aakash, Basic literacy, digital curriculum, e-reader, Early Grade Reading Assessment, eBooks, Evaluations, Grand Challenge, Hardware, ICT, ICT intervention, ICT4E, ICT4EDU, ipad, kindle, Laptop, literacy, OLPC, Plan Ceibal, Reading, Reading ICT, Reading Skills, Tablet, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, UbiSlate, USAID, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 4 Comments »

Open Call for Submissions: What are the Greatest Challenges in Promoting Literacy with ICT?

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Tags: appropriate hardware, Content, Developing World, eBooks, Human Constraints, ICT infrastructure, ICT tools, ICT4E, literacy, Market Failure, Primary Schools, Reading, Reading Delivery Systems, Reading ICT, Software, Technology
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 10 Comments »

Worldreader is leading a reading revolution in the developing world

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, David Risher, e-Books, e-reader, eBooks, Ghana, Kenya, kindle, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Penguin, Random House, Reading, Roald Dahl, tablet devices, Textbooks, worldreader
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 4 Comments »

Tablets are Good, Content is Better, and Teachers are the Best Educational ICT Investment

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Tags: African Populations, Apple, Chalk and Talk, Content, eBooks, ICT in Education, iOs, ipad, slide2learn, tablet pc, Teacher Training, Wikipedia
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 17 Comments »

We Cannot Train More Teachers, We Must Empower Them with Technology

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Tags: Digitizing Textbooks, eBooks, ICT4E, India, OECD, OLPC, Open Content, Open Education Resources, Retraining Teachers, Teacher Mentors, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Training, Textbooks
Posted in Teacher Training | 20 Comments »

We Need a Three-legged Stool of Content, Technology and People

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Tags: Content, courseware, eBooks, Handwriting, People, Quality and Universal Basic Education, QUBE, Shuttleworth Foundation, Siyavula, Teachers, Technology
Posted in Creating Electronic Educational Content | 12 Comments »

Low-Cost ICT Devices Are Driving Proprietory and Open Education Resources

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Tags: Angus Scrimgeour, e-Books, eBooks, OER, Open Content, Open Education Resources, Proprietory Content
Posted in Creating Electronic Educational Content | 18 Comments »

Balancing Content, Technology, and People for Quality Basic Education

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Tags: Content, Creative Commons, eBooks, ICT, Intellectual Property, OLE Nepal, Open Learning Exchange, Quality Basic Education, Richard Rowe, Siyavula Project
Posted in Creating Electronic Educational Content | 33 Comments »

Can eBooks Satisfy? Creating Content for ICT-enabled Classrooms

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Tags: Angus Scrimgeour, Digital Content, Dissemination Model, eBooks, Educational Content, IADP, Open Learning Exchange, Richard Rowe
Posted in Creating Electronic Educational Content | 21 Comments »