The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA), a tool used in over 50 low-income countries and 70 languages to measure students’ progress toward learning to read, is going digital through its new Tangerine™ platform. The mobile software application designed by RTI International specifically for recording student responses during the administration of the EGRA can now be used [...]
With the rainy season off to an early start in Haiti this spring, can technology help stave off the rising cholera epidemic? That’s what several international aid and health organizations are considering now that the advantages of ICT — innovation, efficiency, fast-response time — are needed to meet the impending rainy season which promises to [...]
Are schools in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) network ready? If so, what does it mean for improving the equity and quality of education in that part of the world? This is a complicated question, no doubt, and one that is going to be asked more frequently with the introduction of the new Broadband Partnership of [...]
Of all of the new innovations in ICTs — mobile apps and games, open educational resources (OER), and everything else related to ICT for education (ICT4E) — which will be the most important in the next five years? That’s just one of the questions that the new NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition aims [...]
Remember “Hooked on Phonics“? The famous infomercials from the 90′s that promised an educational video series could improve children’s reading scores through phonic-based learning methods? GraphoGAME, a digital-based phonics learning game developed in Finland, is proving to be just as effective for children in low-income countries and as easily accessible through an array of ICT [...]
The ever-growing universal digital library, full of open educational and adaptable resources which allows teachers and students from around the world to pursue opportunities in distance learning, is about to raise its standards for a new initiative due to be launched in April –TED-Ed. TED, a nonprofit famous for its award-winning TED Talks devoted to [...]
If education quality is largely dependent on the teaching capacity of educators, wouldn’t integrating video instruction from expert teachers into low-resource schools’ curricula seem like a good idea? Digital StudyHall (DSH), a program that has pioneered Facilitated Video Instruction for primary school education in low-resource settings since 2005, might seem revolutionary to the improvement of [...]
Last week, amidst reading the various blogs and tweets for Open Education Week, I came across several acronyms that were unfamiliar. Terms like Edupunk and Aakash are just a few of the terms that you simply have to “be in the know” in order to know. Anyone new to the field of information and communication technology [...]
