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Entries Tagged "TCO"

Latin America Is Fertile With EduTech Experimentation

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Tags: EduTech, GeSCI, Latin America, MOOC, OLPC, RELPE, Roxana Bassi, TCO
Posted in 2013 ICT4Edu Trends | Comments Off on Latin America Is Fertile With EduTech Experimentation

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 »

There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Tags: 9 Myths of ICT4E, Computers, Educational Outcomes, EduTech Hubris, ICT4E, Justified Educational Technology, TCO, Teacher Training, Technology Cycle, Total Cost of Ownership
Posted in ICT in Schools | 158 Comments »

The System-wide Approach from Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Tags: Budgeting, e-School model, Educational Objectives, GeSCI, Global e-Schools and Community Initiative, ICT in Schools, System-wide approach, TCO, Technology Platform
Posted in Computer Configurations for Learning | 4 Comments »

Increased Computing Saturation Requires Cost Effective Solutions

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Tags: Computer Saturation, Desktop Solution, Hierarchy of Needs, Macedonia, Maslow, NComputing, TCO, Totla Cost of Ownership, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Individal and Communal Computer Usage | 5 Comments »