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The first issue of id21's new free publication 'Insights Education'
entitled 'Missing the connection? Using ICTs in Education' is now
available. The complete electronic edition can be viewed online at
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This first issue is edited by Yusuf Sayed, former deputy director of the
Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, now Senior
Education Advisor at the UK Department for International Development,
and examines the use of information communication technologies (ICTs) -
from radios through to the Internet - in public and school education in
developing countries.
The issue includes articles by the following researchers:
* Jenny Leach, on how teachers in South Africa and Egypt adapt to using
computers in their class room teaching
* Marilyn Leask on the importance of thorough strategic planning in the
introduction of ICTs in the class room setting
* Martha Burkle on the use of ICTs in a Mexican university
* Andy Cawthera on the efficient, and inefficient employment of ICTs in
schools
* Mary Myers on the successful use of radio soap operas in public health
education in Tanzania, Rwanda and South African
* Michelle Selinger on the role of the private sector in training the
next generation of IT expertise
* Caroline Pontefract on the work of DFID's Imfundo team - stimulating
collaborative efforts in ICT use, development and training in
sub-Saharan Africa
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