Leveraging information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance education equity, quality, and efficiency: case studies of Bangladesh and Nepal

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2020-04-02 DOI:10.1080/09523987.2020.1786774

Cher Ping Lim, Sungsup Ra, Brian Chin, Tianchong Wang

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ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have had significant impacts on many sectors in today’s knowledge economy. In developing and emerging countries, ICT have enhanced equity, quality, and efficiency in the education sector. However, the adoption of ICT in the South Asian countries’ education sector has not been at scale and its impacts have been limited. There are several gaps and issues that are hindering the wider adoption of ICT and limiting its impacts in the education sector. Through the case studies of the adoption of ICT for education in Bangladesh and Nepal, this paper examines the gaps and issues to be addressed in order to better leverage ICT to enhance education equity, quality, and efficiency. This discussion is guided by the ICT in the education framework that has been developed by the authors, and could provide insights into the state of ICT in education and offer strategies to better leverage ICT for the education sector of other countries in South Asia and the region.

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利用信息通信技术提高教育公平、质量和效率:孟加拉国和尼泊尔的案例研究

信息和通信技术(ICT)对当今知识经济的许多部门产生了重大影响。在发展中国家和新兴国家，信息通信技术提高了教育部门的公平、质量和效率。然而，在南亚国家的教育部门采用信息和通信技术尚未达到规模，其影响有限。有一些差距和问题阻碍了信通技术的广泛采用，并限制了其在教育部门的影响。通过对孟加拉国和尼泊尔在教育中采用信息通信技术的案例研究，本文考察了差距和需要解决的问题，以便更好地利用信息通信技术提高教育公平、质量和效率。本次讨论以作者制定的教育框架中的信息通信技术为指导，可以深入了解信息通信技术在教育领域的现状，并提供更好地利用信息通信技术促进南亚和该地区其他国家教育部门发展的战略。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

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2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.