International Journal of Education and Development using ICT
Apr 24, 2005 Volume 1, Number 1
Editors
Stewart Marshall; Wal Taylor
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 10
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Evolving spaces in landscape management: Linking spatial information for effective decision-making
Ravindranath Rangoori & Subrata Singh, Foundation for Ecological Security, Gujarat , India
Community, in the policy context, is defined on the basis of fixed in place socio-political unit having residential proximity to the resource or according to state recognized political units. With ... More
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Building ICT4D capacity in and by African universities
D Colle, Cornell University, New York, USA, United States
Universities and community telecenters have somewhat parallel missions in society. These include the generation, storage and diffusion of knowledge and information. Yet, in most developing... More
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Facilitating the use of ICT for community development through collaborative partnerships between universities, governments and communities
Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, West Indies, Barbados; Wal Taylor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
Despite the huge potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to assist communities to increase their overall well-being through community development, there are relatively few... More
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Using informal collaboration to develop quality assurance processes for eLearning in developing countries: The case of the University of Botswana and the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre
Marilyn Lee, University of Botswana; Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi, Distance Education Centre, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad And Tobago; Daniela Giannini-Gachago, University of Botswana
Collaboration among institutions of higher education involves the sharing of financial, administrative and infrastructural resources with others through a formal memorandum of understanding. There ... More
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The Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Education (CUPIDE)
Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, West Indies, Barbados
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E-Link Americas
Jill Watson, E-Link Americas
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Building community capacities in evaluating rural IT projects: Success strategies from the LEARNERS Project
June Lennie, Greg Hearn, Lyn Simpson & Megan Kimber, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Given the current emphasis on the benefits of communication and information technologies (C&IT) for sustainable rural community development, effective evaluations of C&IT initiatives are... More
pp. 13-31
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A culture-based model for strategic implementation of virtual education delivery
Janice Burn, Edith Cowan University, Australia; Nalinee Thongprasert, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
This study was designed to examine the critical success factors for implementing Virtual Education Delivery (VED) in Thailand, and to identify ways to facilitate such adoption and lead to effective... More
pp. 32-52
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Measuring Africa's e-readiness in the global networked economy: A nine-country data analysis
Princely Ifinedo, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
This paper assesses the integration of Africa into the global economy by computing the e-readiness for nine African countries. The measuring tool used is simple and incorporates a variety of... More
pp. 53-71
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Designing for learning through multimodal production: Film narrative and spectatorship in Director's Cut
Andrew Deacon, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Andrew Morrison, University of Oslo in Norway, Norway; Jane Stadler, University of Cape Town, South Africa
We describe the evolving learning design of a computer-based exercise called Director’s Cut that challenges students to create their own video sequence from a set of clips we provide. The context... More
pp. 72-89
