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ICT in Education and Implications for the Belt and Road Initiative

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Editors:
  1. Chee-Kit Looi

    1. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

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  2. Hui Zhang

    1. Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  3. Yuan Gao

    1. Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  4. Longkai Wu

    1. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

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  • Presents the latest developments regarding ICT in education in countries in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative
  • Covers countries representing a wide spectrum of developmental stages – a microcosm of the broader international arena
  • Provides essential information prepared by respected researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the field of ICT in education

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (LNET)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to the Belt and Road Initiative, and ICT in Education

      • Yuan Gao, Huaqing Wang
      Pages 3-11

  3. Country Reports

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. ICT in Education in China

      • Yongbin Hu, Hui Zhang
      Pages 15-35

    3. ICT in School Education in Croatia

      • Branka Vuk, Vedran Mornar, Ivica Boticki
      Pages 37-52

    4. ICT for Education, Employment and Empowerment in India

      • Kannan M. Moudgalya
      Pages 53-71

    5. The Process of Developing ICT-Enhanced Education in Korea

      • Myunghee Ju Kang, Seonghye Yoon
      Pages 73-98

    6. Information and Communication Technologies in Russian Education: Background and Outlook

      • Diana O. Koroleva
      Pages 99-117

    7. ICT Integration in Malaysian Education Scenario

      • Mei Lick Cheok, Su Luan Wong, Ahmad Fauzi Mohd Ayub, Rosnaini Mahmud
      Pages 119-132

    8. New Zealand’s ICT-In-Education Development (1990–2018)

      • Garry Falloon
      Pages 133-148

    9. Moving with Times: Singapore’s Evolutionary Trajectory in Integrating Technology in Education

      • Yancy Toh, Chee-Kit Looi
      Pages 149-165

    10. ICT in the Education System: A View from Slovakia

      • Juraj Šebo, Dana Pal’ová
      Pages 167-185

    11. South Africa’s (Unequal) Digital Learning Journey: A Critical Review

      • Shafika Isaacs
      Pages 187-211

    12. ICT in Education in Sri Lanka

      • Sujata N. Gamage
      Pages 213-227

  4. Summary and Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Diversity and Collaboration: A Synthesis of Differentiated Development of ICT Education

      • Chee-Kit Looi, Shiau Wei Chan, Longkai Wu
      Pages 231-243
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About this book

With increasing global challenges, the Belt and Road initiative seems to offer one possible platform to think about different possibilities and pathways to promote international collaboration and development covering Asia, Europe, Africa, and other countries. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education, as a key focus, provides  valuable perspectives for governments, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies wanting to innovate and advance both ICT and education independently and collaboratively. This book highlights the burgeoning of ICT in education in eleven countries,  with particular emphasis placed on the context of the Belt and Road Initiative. ICT has increasingly important roles in education including improve teaching and learning qualities, as well as equity in education. The prominent contributors describe the state-of-the-art of ICT in education in eleven countries based on six major themes (policy perspectives, infrastructure, educational resources, ICT integration into practices, students’ ICT competence, and teachers’ professional development). We hope the in-depth discussions included in this book would provoke more academic and policy insights globally. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Chee-Kit Looi, Longkai Wu

  • Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Hui Zhang, Yuan Gao

About the editors

Chee-Kit Looi is a Professor of Education at the National Institute of Education, and co-Director of the Centre of Research and Development in Learning, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2004 to 2008, he was the Founding Head of the Learning Sciences Lab, Singapore, the first research center devoted to the study of the sciences of learning in the Asia-Pacific region. He has contributed to several meta-synthesis reports, including the 2016 Innovating Pedagogies Report, and the European Commission JRC Scientific and Policy Report on “Exploring conditions for sustainability, scalability and impact at system level ICT-enabled innovation for learning in Europe and Asia.” He currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Transactions in Learning Technologies, International Journal of AI in Education, International Journal of CSCL, and Journal of the Learning Sciences.


 
Hui Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University, China. Her research interests are in the field of learning and instruction, with a major focus on technology-enhanced teaching and learning. Her work chiefly focuses on integrating digital literacy education into the curriculum, and on students’ digital literacy.



 
Yuan Gao is Director of the Open Educational Resources Lab and a Senior Researcher at the Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University. Her main research interests include instructional design, teaching and learning in smart learning environments, educational technologies, educational psychology and foreign/second language learning and instruction. More recently, her work has focused on ICT in education, as well as open educational resources in Belt and Road Initiative countries – a topic on which she has contributed to several books and journal articles.


 
Longkai Wu is a Research Scientist and faculty member at the Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education, Singapore. His research addresses the development of sustainable frameworks to translate and scale education innovations into classroom practices in Singapore’s school system. He has worked closely with local primary and secondary schools, as well as the Ministry of Education, to bring together research innovations, scaled practices and education policies. He is also an international committee member for the SysTech Value Network, a scaling initiative supported by Tekes, the Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, Finland.

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