Vietnam approves Education Society Scheme in 2021-2030 amid digital transformation - Vietnam Investment Review (2021)
Vietnam approved the Scheme on Development of Education Society in 2021-2030 to improve the quality of human resources for digital transformation.

Vietnam Innovation & Tech Investment Report 2023 - Vietnam National Innovation Center (Vietnam National Innovation Center, 2023)

School mapping and decision-making - Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Godwin, Katie; Ramirez, Ana; Mackintosh, Alasdair; Haßler, Björn (GEM Report UNESCO, 2023)
Reliable and timely data is essential for decision-makers at all administrative levels to ensure inclusive, equitable, and quality education for all. Geospatial data has the potential to provide valuable insights across a range of areas of interest to the education sector, from identifying potential threats to schools and the education community, such as throughdata on natural disaster patterns, to supporting equitable allocation of resources based on data showing the remoteness of schools. However, the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is not widespread in the education sector. In this paper, we shed light on the experiences of five country governments, one regional agency, one international initiative, one implementing partner and one private entity, all using GIS for education decision-making in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.This paper presents the findings from primary data collection and analysis of interviews with representatives from these organisations from August –December 2022. Across these countries, we identified two central applications of school geospatial data, which included education planning -which school mapping is a part of -and cross-sector coordination. Among the main challenges to effectively using school geospatial data to make decisions, we found significant issues with capacity building, funding, bridging the data, and policymaking. On the other hand, when school mapping was used effectively, it helped increase transparency and equity, intersectoral collaboration, cost-effectiveness, and accuracy and reliability. After comparing the seven cases, we concluded that two key enablers need to be in place to promote the impact of geospatial data on educational decision-making: ‘usability’ and ‘availability and openness’.
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Education Sector Contingency Plan: Guidelines and Templates - Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Villavicencio, Xuzel; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Model Safe Education Plan - Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Villavicencio, Xuzel; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Monitoring and Evaluation Framework - Vijil-Morin, Alejandra; Villavicencio, Xuzel; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Data collection and visualisation tools in the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - Vijil, Alejandra; El-Serafy, Yomna; Adam, Taskeen; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2024)
This report provides a landscape analysis of available data collection and visualisation tools in the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Digital data collection has the potential to facilitate cost-effective, adaptable, timely and reliable data to inform decision-making. The value proposition of these tools, as opposed to paper-based data collection, is that they have the potential to save valuable time and resources, minimise errors, and facilitate the sharing of results. To develop this report, we reviewed 50 available tools, of which we reviewed four in depth, considering their uses, features, and challenges. This report offers key takeaways on the potential advantages and limitations of using digital data collection tools in the education sector in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Key words: data collection, data visualisation, education, sub-saharan africa, south asia, landscape analysis An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Technology and School Mapping - Vijil, Alejandra; Godwin, Katie; Mackintosh, Alasdair; Ramirez, Ana (EdTech Hub, 2022)
An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Factors Related to Teacher Absenteeism in Sierra Leone: Literature review - Vijil, Alejandra; McBurnie, Chris; Bellinger, Amy; Godwin, Katie; Haßler, Björn (EdTech Hub, 2023)
This report is one of several on the research project on the Impact of GIS-Supported Teacher Allocation in Sierra Leone (Hub-Led Research Programme 3). The education workforce is the most important school-level determinant of student learning. In Sierra Leone, the pupil-to-qualified-teacher ratio rises from 44:1 for schools in urban centres to 76:1 for schools in rural areas. Meanwhile, an average of a quarter of the workforce is absent from school on any given day. This informal literature review provides a summary of the most recent literature on teacher absenteeism, covering a wide range of low- and middle-income countries, including Sierra Leone, where the larger study is being undertaken. For the purposes of this review, we have focused on lessons learnt from sub-Saharan African studies that share similar education contexts and challenges as Sierra Leone. Based on the review, we hypothesise that distance from a teacher’s home to their school and their ability to choose which school they would like to work in impact teacher motivation, school attendance, and time on task. Efficient teacher allocation could improve each of these outcome estimates. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Thematic brief gender, education and training | Capacity4dev - Vila, Blerina (2017)

The implementation of ICT educational policy in selected schools in Swaziland - Vilakati, Nokuthula (UNISWA Research Journal, 2014)
Keywords: Equity of Access; ___working_potential_duplicate; ⛔ No DOI found

Aprendizaje híbrido Experiencias internacionales con enfoque multimodal - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Coflan, Caitlin (2022)
Esta presentación se elaboró originalmente para una serie de seminarios web sobre aprendizaje blended e híbrido para UNICEF El Salvador y el Ministerio de Educación de El Salvador. Los talleres en línea se impartieron en dos sesiones, con los profesores de El Salvador como parte fundamental de la audiencia. Junto con las lecciones aprendidas de las diversas iniciativas internacionales mapeadas, también se tocaron temas como la infraestructura de las TIC del país y la relevancia de un enfoque de Aprendizaje Socioemocional (SEL). Keywords: híbrido; blended; multimodal; El Salvador; capacitación docente; aprendizaje socioemocional An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Hybrid learning: International experiences with multimodal approaches - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Coflan, Caitlin (2022)
This slide deck was originally developed for a webinar series on blended and hybrid learning for UNICEF El Salvador and the El Salvador Ministry of Education. The online workshops were delivered in two sessions, with the teachers from El Salvador as a key part of the audience. Along with the lessons learnt from the various international initiatives mapped, subjects like the country's ICT infrastructure and the relevance of a Socio Emotional Learning (SEL) approach were also covered. Keywords: hybrid; blended; El Salvador; multimodal; teacher training; socio-emotional learning. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Blended and Hybrid Learning Initiatives: A curated list for El Salvador - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Coflan, Caitlin Moss (EdTech Hub, 2022)
This document was produced in response to a request from the UNICEF country office and Ministry of Education team of El Salvador that was submitted to the EdTech Hub Helpdesk in November 2021. The UNICEF team requested a curated list of global blended and hybrid initiatives with a focus on initiatives that have used a multimodal strategy, highlighting effective and ineffective practices. This report does not aim to cover every leading and innovative blended / hybrid initiative with relevance to the Salvadoran context. Rather, it presents a list of curated resources with examples of challenges, lessons learned, and teacher training approaches that can be used as a guide when designing a multimodal strategy for the education sector. Keywords: hybrid; blended; El Salvador; multimodal; teacher training; remote learning An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Blended and Hybrid Learning Initiatives: A curated list for El Salvador - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Coflan, Caitlin Moss (EdTech Hub, 2022)
This document was produced in response to a request from the UNICEF country office and Ministry of Education team of El Salvador that was submitted to the EdTech Hub Helpdesk in November 2021. The UNICEF team requested a curated list of global blended and hybrid initiatives with a focus on initiatives that have used a multimodal strategy, highlighting effective and ineffective practices. This report does not aim to cover every leading and innovative blended / hybrid initiative with relevance to the Salvadoran context. Rather, it presents a list of curated resources with examples of challenges, lessons learned, and teacher training approaches that can be used as a guide when designing a multimodal strategy for the education sector. Keywords: hybrid; blended; El Salvador; multimodal; teacher training; remote learning An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Iniciativas para el desarrollo de habilidades CTIM de las adolescentes en la región de LAC - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Myers, Christina; Coflan, Caitlin (EdTech Hub, 2022)
El presente documento se elaboró en respuesta a una solicitud de la oficina de UNICEF en Argentina presentada al Servicio de Asistencia de EdTech Hub en noviembre de 2021. El equipo de UNICEF solicitó una lista seleccionada de iniciativas para el desarrollo de habilidades en ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas (CTIM) de las adolescentes de la región de América Latina y el Caribe (LAC). El documento ofrece una introducción al concepto de igualdad de género y antecedentes acerca de la participación de las mujeres en los campos de CTIM en la región de LAC y en Argentina. El documento también ofrece una serie de recomendaciones transversales basadas en las iniciativas analizadas. Palabras clave: STEM; Género;CTIM; LAC; Argentina; tecnología; Ciencias; igualdad de género An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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STEM Skills Initiatives for Adolescent Girls in the LAC Region - Villavicencio, Xuzel; Myers, Christina; Coflan, Caitlin Moss (EdTech Hub, 2022)
This report was produced in response to a request from the UNICEF country office of Argentina and presents a curated list of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills initiatives for adolescent girls in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. It also provides an introduction to gender equality and background on the participation of women in STEM fields in the LAC region — as well as cross-cutting recommendations based on an analysis of a series of initiatives. Key words: STEM; Gender; Girls; LAC; Argentina; technology; Science An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org
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Scholarcy Summarizer Review: Pricing, Features, & More - Viraj, Mahajan
Ultimate Scholarcy summarizer review. 1. Working process 2. Pricing and plan 3. Technical details 4. Features and functionalities 5. Security and customer support 6. Pros and cons.

Facing the challenges of the One-Tablet-Per-Child policy in Thai primary school education. - Viriyapong, Ratchada; Harfield, Antony (International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications, 2013)

How much can we generalize from impact evaluations? - Vivalt, Eva (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020)
Impact evaluations can help to inform policy decisions, but they are rooted in particular contexts and to what extent they generalize is an open question. I exploit a new data set of impact evaluation results and find a large amount of effect heterogeneity. Effect sizes vary systematically with study characteristics, with government-implemented programs having smaller effect sizes than academic or non-governmental organization-implemented programs, even controlling for sample size. I show that treatment effect heterogeneity can be appreciably reduced by taking study characteristics into account.

The effect of blended learning on student performance at course-level in higher education: A meta-analysis - Vo, Hien M.; Zhu, Chang; Diep, Nguyet A. (Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2017)
The present paper analyzes the impact of blended learning (BL) on the academic achievement of higher education students. A meta-analysis (k=51 effect sizes) was conducted to perform a statistical synthesis of studies contrasting student performance in BL conditions with traditional classroom instruction. We include disciplines and instructors’ end-of-course evaluation method as moderating variables. The results show that BL demonstrates a small summary effect (g+=0.385, p<0.001) compared to traditional teaching methods A significantly higher mean effect size was found in STEM disciplines (g+=0.496) compared to that of non-STEM disciplines (g+=0.210). Nevertheless, the weighted mean effect sizes reveal no significant differences regarding of end-of-course assessment methods, namely one-moment and multiple-component assessment. The finding confirms that BL is significantly associated with greater learning performance of STEM-disciplined students than with traditional classroom practice. Accordingly, discussion concerning the findings and implications for future research are elaborated.
Keywords: Blended learning; Discipline; Higher education; Meta-analysis; Student performance

Prepaid tariffs - Vodacom Mozambique - Vodacom Mozambique

Sim Only Talk Deals| Vodacom Specials - Vodacom South Africa

Real girls, real lives, connected: A global study of girls’ access and usage of mobile, told through 3000 voices. - Vodafone Foundation (Vodafone Foundation, 2018)

Review of the use of ‘Theory of Change’ in international development - Vogel, Isabel (2012)
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The History and Status of General Systems Theory. - Von Bertalanffy, L. (Academy of Management Journal, 1972)

An Outline of General System Theory - von Bertalanffy, Ludwig (The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1950)
A survey of the history of science shows that very similar conceptions have been developed independently in various branches of science. At present, for example, holistic interpretations are prevalent in all fields whereas in the past atomistic explanations were common. Such considerations lead to the postulation of General System Theory which is a logico-mathematical discipline applicable to all sciences concerned with systems. The fact that certain principles have general applicability to systems explains the occurrence of isomorphic laws in different scientific fields. Just as Aristotelian logic was a fundamental organon for the classificatory sciences of antiquity, so may General System Theory define the general principles of dynamic interaction which appears as the central problem of modern science. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Endogenous development in Lao PDR in the era of globalization: Contrastive case studies of external assistance for a sustainable rural development path - Vongxay, Phonemany; Suzuki, Noriyuki (Journal of Mekong Societies, 2021)
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Towards design-based approaches for ICT integration in African education - Voogt, J; Tondeur, J (Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015)

International handbook of information technology in primary and secondary education - Voogt, Joke; Knezek, Gerald (Springer international handbooks of education, 2008)

Collaborative design as a form of professional development - Voogt, Joke; Laferriere, Therese; Breuleux, Alain; Itow, Rebecca C.; Hickey, Daniel T.; McKenney, Susan (Instructional science, 2015)

Designing inclusive digital solutions and developing digital skills: guidelines - UNESCO Digital Library - Vosloo, Steve

Case Study: Sisters for Sisters’ Education - VSO (2021)

Unlocking Talent Through Technology Malawi - VSO (2019)

Using technology to deliver high quality education | VSO - VSO

Building back better: Education systems for resilience, equity and quality in the age of Covid-19 - Vu, B.T.; Savonitto, I.S. (World Bank, 2020)

Policy and practice on language of instruction in Ethiopian school: findings from the Young Lives school survey - Vujcich, Daniel (Working paper, 2013)
Keywords: Ethiopia; Language; Native language and education; Teachers; Teaching

Cambodia - TED: Strengthening teacher trainers through blended trainings - VVOB (2023)

Teacher motivation for online learning: piloting a microlearning support system | VVOB in Rwanda - VVOB (VVOB, 2021)

Low learning outcomes in primary schools in India - Vyas, Ankit (Qrius, 2014)
By Ankit Vyas, declining quality of primary education is leading to low learning outcomes creating unskilled labour reflecting inefficiencies of the system.

Mind in society: Development of higher psychological processes - Vygotsky, Lev Semyonovich (Harvard University Press, 1978)
The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society corrects much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky's important essays.

What have we learned after ten years of systematic reviews in international development? - Waddington, Hugh; Masset, Edoardo; Jimenez, Emmanuel (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2018)
The paper discusses the role of systematic evidence in helping make better decisions to reach global development targets. Coming at the end of the ﬁrst decade of serious funding and support for systematic evidence generation in development economics and development studies, the paper presents opportunities and challenges for the continued development of systematic review methodologies. It concludes by introducing the papers collected in the issue, which make and demonstrate the case for theory-based approaches to evidence synthesis.
Keywords: Reviewed

How to do a good systematic review of effects in international development: a tool kit - Waddington, Hugh; White, Howard; Snilstveit, Birte; Hombrados, Jorge Garcia; Vojtkova, Martina; Davies, Philip; Bhavsar, Ami; Eyers, John; Koehlmoos, Tracey Perez; Petticrew, Mark; Valentine, Jeffrey C.; Tugwell, Peter (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2012)
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; -missingHU; 3ie; DL4D cited; Reviewed; ___working_potential_duplicate; auto_merged; publicImportV1

Licenses for open material - Wageningen University and Research (WUR, 2018)
Open materials are any material provided with an open license. You can use an open license to indicate what other people are allowed to do with your work.

Smaller, quicker, cheaper: Improving learning assessments in developing countries - Wagner, D.A. (UNESCO-IIEP/FTI-Global Partnership for Education, 2011)

Learning at the bottom of the pyramid: Science, measurement, and policy in low-income countries - Wagner, D.A.; Wolf, S.; Boruch, R.F. (UNESCO-IIEP, 2018)

IT and Education for the Poorest of the Poor: Constraints, Possibilities, and Principles - Wagner, Daniel (TechKnowLogia: International Journal for the Advancement of Knowledge and Learning, 2001)
Long before the term "Digital Divide" became a common term to describe gaps between the rich and poor in the effective access and use of information technology (IT), most policy makers, researchers and practitioners could at least agree on one thing: Reaching the poorest of the poor was going to be the most difficult of challenges.
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Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World - Wagner, Daniel (2018)
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Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World - Wagner, Daniel (2018)
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Learning as Development: Rethinking International Education in a Changing World - Wagner, Daniel (2018)
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Technology for education in low-income countries: Assisting the UN Sustainable Development Goals - Wagner, Daniel (ICT-Supported Innovations in Small Countries and Developing Regions, 2016)

Learning as development: Rethinking international education in a changing world - Wagner, Daniel A. (Routledge, 2018)

Mobiles for reading: A landscape research review - Wagner, Daniel A (Working Papers (Literacy.org), 2014)
This landscape review takes the broad domain of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) for education, and focuses on the fast-evolving sub-domain of mobiles for reading, or M4R. The 'mobiles' in this review primarily refer to mobile technologies— ICTs that are portable, typically battery powered, and may be connected to cellular networks and/or the Internet. The term 'reading' refers to the joint abilities of understanding and producing written language, for children, youth and adults. This review of M4R focuses primarily on the use of mobile ICTs designed to help children learn to read, practice reading (reading to learn), and acquire a broader range of learning skills that support a literate society.

Technology for Education in Low-Income Countries: Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals - Wagner, Daniel A. (ICT-Supported Innovations in Small Countries and Developing Regions: Perspectives and Recommendations for International Education, 2018)
Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are increasingly available, even in developing countries, leading to a number of pressing questions. Will ICTs for education (ICT4E) improve learning and educational quality? Might they increase the ‘digital divide’ with negative consequences for equity? What can ICT4E offer to help assist in the achievement of the new UN Sustainable Development Goals? The present review addresses these questions and uses of ICT4E in developing countries. First, a short overview is provided of how ICT4E intersects with the learning outcomes and the quality of education, including contemporary perceptions of what does and does not work in ICT4E. Second, an ICT4E framework is suggested as a way to reconceptualize the parameters currently in use that will lead to more effective ICT4E design solutions. Third, ICT projects in four key education subsectors – early childhood, basic as well as secondary education, and teacher education – help to disaggregate where and how interventions have been made in recent years. Finally, a set of investment domains in ICT4E is described, along with a set of specific suggestions to advance the field. The paper concludes with the suggestion that measurable, sustainable, and scalable design solutions in ICT4E are the best way to assist in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Keywords: Design solution; Framework; ICT4E; Learning; Technology; UN SDGs

Technology and mother-tongue literacy in Southern India: Impact studies among young children and out-of-school youth - Wagner, Daniel A; Daswani, C J; Karnati, Romilla (Information Technology and International Development, 2010)
The present research began with one main question: How can new technologies be effective for poor and illiterate children and youth in developing countries? We addressed this question through a research-based implementation project in India that included the development of local language multimedia software for literacy; a built-in, user-friendly interface; and the use of existing computer infrastructure. Two studies were undertaken in Andhra Pradesh state. One included a sample of youth and young adults who had never gone to school (or dropped out early) in peri-urban Hyderabad, and the other was composed of young second- and third-grade school children in rural West Godavari district. Based on a short-term intervention program, research results demonstrated a modest positive impact on the learning rate in reading with both groups of learners (when compared with control groups without the multimedia intervention). The findings provide support for the view that information and communications technologies for development can assist in promoting literacy among the poorest of the poor. In addition, the present results support the view that the digital divide, as it evolves over time, will only be narrowed when content-based solutions are sensitive to, and built on cultural and linguistic diversity.
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Technology and mother-tongue literacy in Southern India: Impact studies among young children and out-of-school youth - Wagner, Daniel A; Daswani, C J; Karnati, Romilla (Information Technology and International Development, 2010)
The present research began with one main question: How can new technologies be effective for poor and illiterate children and youth in developing countries? We addressed this question through a research-based implementation project in India that included the development of local language multimedia software for literacy; a built-in, user-friendly interface; and the use of existing computer infrastructure. Two studies were undertaken in Andhra Pradesh state. One included a sample of youth and young adults who had never gone to school (or dropped out early) in peri-urban Hyderabad, and the other was composed of young second- and third-grade school children in rural West Godavari district. Based on a short-term intervention program, research results demonstrated a modest positive impact on the learning rate in reading with both groups of learners (when compared with control groups without the multimedia intervention). The findings provide support for the view that information and communications technologies for development can assist in promoting literacy among the poorest of the poor. In addition, the present results support the view that the digital divide, as it evolves over time, will only be narrowed when content-based solutions are sensitive to, and built on cultural and linguistic diversity.
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Monitoring and evaluation of ICT in education projects: A handbook for developing countries - Wagner, Daniel A.; Day, Bob; James, Tina; Kozma, Robert B.; Miller, Jonathan; Unwin, Tim (InfoDev / World Bank, 2005)
an infoDev publication www.infodev.org Pre-publication draft for circulation at the World Summit on the Information Societ
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Monitoring and evaluation of ICT in education projects. A handbook for developing countries - Wagner, Daniel A.; Day, Bob; James, Tina; Kozma, Robert B.; Miller, Jonathan; Unwin, Tim (Washington DC: infoDev. Retrieved July, 2005)
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Technology for Education in Low-Income Countries: Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals - Wagner, Daniel A.; Lubin, Ian (ICT-Supported Innovations in Small Countries and Developing Regions: Perspectives and Recommendations for International Education, 2018)

Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries - Wagner, Daniel A.; Nathan, M Castillo; Lewis, Suzanne Grant (2022)
Academic publishing of peer-reviewed open access monographs

Technology and Mother-Tongue Literacy in Southern India: Impact Studies among Young Children and Out-of-School Youth - Wagner, Daniel; Daswani, C.; Karnati, Romilla (International Technologies & International Development, 2010)
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Refugee Education: is technology the solution? - Wagner, E
Keywords: RER theme_pedagogies and modalities

Save Our Education: Protect every child’s right to learn in the COVID-19 response and recovery - Wagner, Emma; Warren, Hollie (Save The Children, 2020)
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Artificial intelligence and the conduct of literature reviews - Wagner, Gerit; Lukyanenko, Roman; Paré, Guy (Journal of Information Technology, 2022)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to transform traditional research practices in many areas. In this context, literature reviews stand out because they operate on large and rapidly growing volumes of documents, that is, partially structured (meta)data, and pervade almost every type of paper published in information systems research or related social science disciplines. To familiarize researchers with some of the recent trends in this area, we outline how AI can expedite individual steps of the literature review process. Considering that the use of AI in this context is in an early stage of development, we propose a comprehensive research agenda for AI-based literature reviews (AILRs) in our field. With this agenda, we would like to encourage design science research and a broader constructive discourse on shaping the future of AILRs in research.
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Who is responsible for E-Learning Success in Higher Education? A Stakeholders' Analysis - Wagner, Nicole; Hassanein, Khaled; Head, Milena (2008)
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ICT and Education for Refugees in Transit - Wahyuni, Dewi Sari; Fatdha, T. Sy Eiva (SALTeL Journal (Southeast Asia Language Teaching and Learning), 2019)
Refugees in transit often have no access to formal education. Indonesia as one of transit countries has allowed these community school-age children to join public school. Unfortunately, teenagers and adults do not have similar consent. As most of them are stranded for a long time to skip their basic education, there should be a bridge so that they still can catch up with their secondary or even higher education level. During their uncertain waiting time, some international and national organizations and local institutions have provided them with private classes in specific subjects. The problem is these classes are unaligned with the lesson grade in host country formal education institution, which is categorized based on learners’ ages. Moreover, they are placed in separated places (detention centre, interception, community housings) which cost time and fare to get these refugees in one education centre. The alternative solution for handling this situation is by having blended learning, a combination of online learning platform and face-to-face meeting managed by teachers both from the host country and refugees. These students although they are limited by any means, have been familiar with ICT such as Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Multimedia and Internet. The online learning platform will muddle through time and distance in order to support them to take Package A, B, C (National Elementary, Junior and Senior High School Equivalency) tests as these tests are admitted at work and further study in host country as well as their destination countries without age limitation.
Keywords: Google Scholar/ "blended learning" refugee education; RER theme_pedagogies and modalities

ICT and Education for Refugees in Transit - Wahyuni, Dewi Sari; Fatdha, T. Sy Eiva (SALTeL Journal (Southeast Asia Language Teaching and Learning), 2019)
Refugees in transit often have no access to formal education. Indonesia as one of transit countries has allowed these community school-age children to join public school. Unfortunately, teenagers and adults do not have similar consent. As most of them are stranded for a long time to skip their basic education, there should be a bridge so that they still can catch up with their secondary or even higher education level. During their uncertain waiting time, some international and national organizations and local institutions have provided them with private classes in specific subjects. The problem is these classes are unaligned with the lesson grade in host country formal education institution, which is categorized based on learners’ ages. Moreover, they are placed in separated places (detention centre, interception, community housings) which cost time and fare to get these refugees in one education centre. The alternative solution for handling this situation is by having blended learning, a combination of online learning platform and face-to-face meeting managed by teachers both from the host country and refugees. These students although they are limited by any means, have been familiar with ICT such as Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Multimedia and Internet. The online learning platform will muddle through time and distance in order to support them to take Package A, B, C (National Elementary, Junior and Senior High School Equivalency) tests as these tests are admitted at work and further study in host country as well as their destination countries without age limitation.
Keywords: Education; ICT; Refugees; Transit; ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Improving students’ independence and collaboration with blended learning - Wahyuni, Erly (Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018), 2018)
Now that web-based learning has emerged as a major trend in higher education. Many people have opportunities to develop and enhance independent or collaborative learning through a material which can be supported by technology and online learning. This study was aimed at 1) finding out how Blended Learning was implemented to improve students’ independency and collaboration in listening class, 2) finding out how Blended Learning can improve students’ independency and collaboration, 3) finding out students’ response toward the implementation of Blended Learning in listening class. The subjects of this study are an English lecturer and the second semester students of English Dept. which consists of 28 students who are taking Listening Class. The research designs used are descriptive qualitative and quantitative research. The instruments of this study are observation, interview, and open-ended questionnaire with likert scale. The techniques of data analysis for quantitative research uses a simple percentage and qualitative research is with data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion: drawing or verifying. The result of the research showed that 1) the use of blended learning in teaching listening offered ways for lecturer to be more effective in the teaching and learning process, 2) blended learning was able to improve students’ indepedency and collaboration in listening class, and 3) this study demonstrated the positive response for the students.
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Using examination and learning assessment data to uncover foundational skill gaps in Sierra Leone’s secondary schools - Waistell, Daniel; De, Sourovi; Ofori Owusu, Diana; Allen, Reg; Sanni, Kayode; Dupigny, Albert (UKFIET Conference, 2019)
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Education Management Information Systems (EMIS): a guide for young managers - Wako, Tegegn Nuresu (2003)

Assessment of accelerated education to catch up with missed school programme in post crisis settings: Case study of selected IDP camps in Maiduguri metropolitan council - Wali, Yagana S; Muhammad Ali, Mustapha (British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019)
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Child-centred Educational Radio Project in Kailahun District, Sierra Leone - Walker, David; Tristram, Bella; Pereznieto, Paola; Young, Tricia (United Nations Girls' Education Initiative; Overseas Development Institute)

Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe - Walker, H.; Hennessy, S.; Pimmer, C. (Research Papers in Education, 2022)
This study reports on the adaptation and outcomes of a teacher professional development (TPD) programme in a rural Zimbabwean secondary school. The programme incorporated Open Educational Resources (OER), specifically OER4school materials, that were provided via tablet computers for teachers and students. A mixed-methods case study was employed to explore teachers’ perceptions, knowledge, experiences of interactive learning and teaching in relation to this TPD, as well as their perceptions and experiences of the role and value of using technology to support student learning. Video data from structured lesson observations were triangulated with teacher post-lesson interviews and thematically coded. The interviews indicated that all teachers demonstrated a change in mindset and a clear understanding of interactive teaching methods. However, the structured observations revealed that only half of the teachers were using these interactive methods. Teachers also emphasised the value of OER and tablet technologies in improving lesson planning and making classroom learning more authentic. The use of technology, as both a TPD medium and as a classroom tool, showed potential to enhance the quality of TPD and teacher quality. Yet more specific teacher development to support the interactive use of technology within the classroom would be beneficial.

Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe - Walker, Hannah; Hennessy, Sara; Pimmer, Christoph (Research Papers in Education, 2022)

Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe - Walker, Hannah; Hennessy, Sara; Pimmer, Christoph (Research Papers in Education, 2022)

‘Tich Mi Ar Tich Dem’: Designing a low-cost and scalable teacher professional development in Sierra Leone - Walker, Hannah; Tegha, Ghislaine; Lurvink, Anne-Fleur; McBurnie, Chris (Open Development & Education, 2022)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the past two decades, Sierra Leone has faced a series of shocks: a civil war, landslides, Ebola, and the COVID-19 pandemic. These shocks have aggravated the learning crisis that the country’s education system faces—and dramatically increased the pressure on teachers to deliver high-quality support to children. In this context, the Ministry of Basic and […]

What we’re learning about how organisations select ICT tools - Walker, Tim (Making All Voices Count, 2016)
Engine room is working on a framework to help organisations select the appropriate information and technology tools (ICT) for their governance projects.

Appraising research on personalized learning: definitions, theoretical alignment, advancements, and future directions - Walkington, Candace; Bernacki, Matthew L. (Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020)
This article introduces a special issue comprising research on efforts to personalize learning in different academic subjects. We first consider the emergence of personalized learning (PL) and the myriad of definitions that describe its essential features. Thereafter, we introduce the articles in the special issue by examining their alignment to extant theories of learning, the instructional design features that personalize the learning experience based on a learner characteristic, and the relationships between PL design and outcomes achieved in an educational context. Based on observations of contemporary PL research, we identify key issues to be addressed by the field and recommendations for future researchers to undertake to advance a PL theory. Chief among issues with PL are the role of technology, the agency of the learner, and the absence of a consistent theoretical grounding to motivate PL design choices. Future directions that would advance PL include the adoption of a theory of change in PL design, a design-based research approach to refine PL initiatives, more intensive and iterative research in authentic classroom contexts, and a greater focus on student input into and ownership of the PL experience.

bwallace/abstrackr-web - Wallace, Byron (2023)
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Cost Analysis Guidance for USAID-Funded Education Activities - Walls, Elena; Tulloch, Caitlin; Harris-Van Keuren, Christine (United States Agency for International Development, 2020)

Cost Analysis Guidance for USAID-Funded Education Activities - Walls, Elena; Tulloch, Caitlin; Harris-Van Keuren, Christine (USAID, 2021)

Cost Analysis Guidance for USAID-Funded Education Activities - Walls, Elena; Tulloch, Caitlin; Harris-Van Keuren, Christine (USAID, 2021)

Cost Measurement Guidance Note for Donor-Funded Education Programming - Walls, Elena; Tulloch, Caitlin; Holla, Alaka (United States Agency for International Development, prepared for Building Evidence in Education (BE2), 2020)

Cost Analysis Guidance for USAID Funded Education Activities, third edition - Walls, Elena; Tulloch, Caitlin; Keuren, Christine Harris Van (United States Agency for International Development, 2024)

The ‘trainer in your pocket’: mobile phones within a teacher continuing professional development program in Bangladesh - Walsh, Christopher S.; Power, Tom; Khatoon, Masuda; Biswas, Sudeb Kumar; Paul, Ashok Kumar; Sarkar, Bikash Chandra; Griffiths, Malcolm (Professional Development in Education, 2013)
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The ‘trainer in your pocket’: mobile phones within a teacher continuing professional development program in Bangladesh - Walsh, Christopher S.; Power, Tom; Khatoon, Masuda; Biswas, Sudeb Kumar; Paul, Ashok Kumar; Sarkar, Bikash Chandra; Griffiths, Malcolm (Professional Development in Education, 2013)
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The ‘trainer in your pocket’: mobile phones within a teacher continuing professional development program in Bangladesh - Walsh, Christopher S.; Power, Tom; Khatoon, Masuda; Biswas, Sudeb Kumar; Paul, Ashok Kumar; Sarkar, Bikash Chandra; Griffiths, Malcolm (Professional Development in Education, 2013)
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The ‘trainer in your pocket’: mobile phones within a teacher continuing professional development program in Bangladesh - Walsh, Christopher S.; Power, Tom; Khatoon, Masuda; Biswas, Sudeb Kumar; Paul, Ashok Kumar; Sarkar, Bikash Chandra; Griffiths, Malcolm (Professional Development in Education, 2013)
Examples of mobile phones being used with teachers to provide continuing professional development (CPD) in emerging economies at scale are largely absent from the research literature. We outline English in Action’s (EIA) model for providing 80,000 teachers with CPD to improve their communicative language teaching in Bangladesh over nine years. EIA’s CPD program is delivered face to face and supported through open distance learning (ODL). This innovative model of teacher CPD is supported through peer learning and self-study using a variety of print, audio and video resources. Drawing on the success of EIA’s pilot studies, where internal and external evaluation reported significant improvement in teachers’ and students’ English-language competence after one year, the current phase is using low-cost mobile phones, or the ‘trainer in your pocket’ to deliver CPD to 12,500 teachers through 2015. We believe EIA’s teacher CDP model is best suited to assist the project in achieving one of its primary goals: to increase the English-language proficiency of 12 million students, allowing them to access greater social and economic opportunities in the future. We argue EIA’s use of mobile phones for the provision of teacher CPD – at scale – is timely and replicable in both developed and developing contexts.
Keywords: English in Action; communicative language teaching; mobile phones; open distance learning; school-based professional development (SBPD); teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD)

Low Cost Mobile Phones for Large Scale Teacher - Walsh, Christopher S; Shaheen, Robina; Power, Tom; Hedges, Claire; Kahtoon, Masuda; Mondol, Sikander (2012)
Education has the power to transform societies and contribute to social and economic development. In this paper we present the mobile technologies used for teacher professional development (TPD) and communicative language teaching in English in Action (EIA). The project aims to assist 25 million people access greater social and economic opportunities through English language teaching and TPD. EIA, in partnership with the Government of Bangladesh, will work with 80,000 teachers through a work-based programme of TPD using audio and visual resources on low cost mobile phones. With access to over 700 audio files aligned with the national textbook English for Today and professional development films that explain and then illustrate successful student-centred English teaching and learning, the project has already documented significant improvement in teachers’ and pupils’ English language competency. This paper provides an account of, and rationale for, the changes in the technologies used across two phases of the project, from the iPod Nano and Touch used in the pilot study with 690 teachers (2009-2010) to the low cost Nokia C1-01 mobile phone with a micro secure digital (SD) being used in upscaling to 12,500 teachers (2012-2014). We argue the low cost alphanumeric mobile phone with micro SD cards provides unprecedented opportunities to both deliver TPD and improve teachers’ and students’ communicative English language skills. The paper considers the unique suitability mobile phones present for resource constrained education systems in developing countries. Simultaneously we highlight the need for further application and research into the use of mobile technologies, not only for large-scale TPD projects, but for a diversity of international development projects and programmes which aim to achieve sustainable change at scale.

The Potential of Mobile Phones to Transform Teacher Professional Development to Build Sustainable Educational Futures in Bangladesh - Walsh, Christopher S; Woodward, Clare; Solly, Mike; Shrestha, Prithvi (Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2015)
Futures thinking is used by governments to consider long-term strategic approaches and develop policies and practices that are potentially resilient to future uncertainty. English in Action (EIA), arguably the world's largest English language teacher professional development (TPD) project, used futures thinking to author possible, probable and preferable future scenarios to solve the project's greatest technological challenge: how to deliver audio-visual TPD materials and hundreds of classroom audio resources to 75,000 teachers by 2017. Authoring future scenarios and engaging in possibility thinking (PT) provided us with a taxonomy of question-posing and question-responding that assisted the project team in being creative. This process informed the successful pilot testing of a mobile-phone-based technology kit to deliver TPD resources within an open distance learning (ODL) platform. Taking the risk and having the foresight to trial mobile phones in remote rural areas with teachers and students led to unforeseen innovation. As a result, EIA is currently using a mobile-phone-based technology kit with 12,500 teachers to improve the English language proficiency of 700,000 students. As the project scales up in its third and final phase, we are using the new technology kit — known as the 'trainer in your pocket' — to foster a 'quiet revolution' in the provision of professional development for teachers at scale to an additional 67,500 teachers and nearly 10 million students.

What professional development makes the most difference to teachers? - Walter, Catherine; Briggs, Jessica (University of Oxford Department of Education, 2012)

Misallocation in the Public Sector? Cross-Country Evidence from Two Million Primary Schools, - Walter, Torsten Figueiredo (STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series, 2020)

State Management of Education Systems and Educational Performance - Walter, Torsten Figueiredo
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Computer Laptop Project Strategy for Basic Education Schools in Kenya - Wambugu, Geoffrey M.; Ogenga, Stephen; Shikali, Casper; Muliaro, Joseph (2017)
Kenya’s Vision 2030 recognizes the enabling role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and anchors some of its key aspirations upon the availability and adoption of computers for schools. The overall objective of this strategy paper is to provide direction for acquisition of equitable and efficient laptop computers to all pupils in public primary schools. The existing education policy on ICT is imbedded in three documents namely; e-Government Strategy, National ICT Policy and Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2005 which is a Policy Framework for Education, Training and Research. There is a need therefore to consolidate these documents into one. The overall objective of the consolidation is to merge and integrate education policy on ICT including the scope, usage, administration and ways to address innovations and attendant Intellectual Property Rights. In the process of strategic planning for utilizing ICT in education, key stakeholders require to be consulted. In addition to the above mentioned, specific stakeholders include the National ICT integration and innovation Centre, Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development, Center for Mathematics, Science and Education in Africa, Teacher Service Commission, Primary Teacher Training Institutions, Universities and the National ICT Steering Committee. The strategy identifies the following as key weaknesses that hamper the implementation of ICT projects: slow integration of ICT in operations and programs; inadequate human and financial resources in some key service areas to meet the rapidly growing work-related demands. In addition there exists lack of appropriate learning facilities and/or infrastructure in some education and training institutions and inadequate number of trainers in modern technology coupled with a mismatch of skills learnt and demands of the labour market. It is also noted that the legal framework is non-harmonized and this inhibits the performance of Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Further, a number of policy frameworks are yet to be operationalized thus hampering delivery of services. The strategy also identifies a Strategic Model for Laptop Project and an implementation matrix.
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for Professional Teacher and Teacher Educator Development: A Case of TESSA MOOC in Kenya - Wambugu, Patriciah W. (Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018)
This study intends to present a bespoke teacher professional development MOOC designed by Teacher Education for Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) team that allows MOOCs to become a viable means offering cost-effective, quality professional teacher development. TESSA is a network of teachers and teacher educators, working to improve classroom teaching in Africa. TESSA MOOC is an innovative approach to capacity building for teacher educators and teachers across Africa. The study presents outputs of an evaluation of TESSA MOOC course undertaken by Kenyan teachers and teacher educators. The experiences of the participants were that the TESSA MOOC was a new but interesting, appealing and flexible course. In addition, the participants were able to learn from one another and what they learnt may impact on their pedagogical skills. Key challenges identified include difficulties in downloading of materials due to lack of internet connectivity and use of ICT phobia for learning. MOOCs represent an untapped potential for teacher professional development that can be a cost and resource effective means to deliver quality education to teachers and teacher educators. Therefore, the teachers and teacher educators may need to exploit this learner based TESSA MOOC to build capacity for teaching.
Keywords: Educational Quality; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Information Technology; Online Courses; Teacher Education; Teacher Educators; Teacher Effectiveness

Continuing the Conversation About Face-to-Face, Online, and Blended Learning a Meta-Analysis of Empirical Literature 2006-2017 - Wandera, Silas (Wilmington University (Delaware), 2017)
This paper serves two purposes. First, it statistically compares learning outcomes of face-to-face, online and blended learning instruction. Then it looks at the instructional practices that are associated with effective blended and online learning. A meta-analysis of 30 studies, with 3,687 participants, resulted in 36 effect sizes. The contrasts comprised of 21 studies that looked at blended learning vs. face-to-face education, eight contrasts that looked at online learning vs. face-to-face education, and seven contrasts that looked at blended vs. online learning. The observed summary effect size was a small effect size of 0.397 with Confidence Interval (CI) of 0.242 to 0.553, with a Z-total of 5.000, and significant p <0.000. This implies that the overall effect size in treatment condition (blended or online learning) is 0.397 standard deviations higher than the control condition (face-to-face or online learning). There were eight instructional practices; self-directedness, peer interactions, feedback, multiple learning ways, student orientation, instructor presence, multiple assessments, and accountability. Instructional practices with over 90% reported in studies included: accountability (100%), multiple assessments (92%), feedback (92%), and multiple learning ways (92%). All the instructional practices reported according to Cohen (1988) revealed a small average effect size. This meta-analysis recognizes that blended learning will be replacing face-to-face education and results showed a small significant gain in learning outcomes from a previous meta-analysis (Benard, Borokhovski, Schmid, Tamim, & Abrami, 2014a, 2014b; Means, Toyama, Murphy, & Baki, 2013; Vo, Zhu, & Diep, 2017; Zhao, Lei, Yan, Lai, & Tan, 2005).
Keywords: Blended learning; Education; Face-to-face; Hybrid learning; Instructional practices; Meta-analysis; Online learning

Design-based research and technology-enhanced learning environments - Wang, Feng; Hannafin, Michael J. (Educational Technology Research and Development, 2005)

Learning styles and formative assessment strategy: enhancing student achievement in Web-based learning - Wang, K. H.; Wang, T. H.; Wang, W. L.; Huang, S. C. (Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2006)
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of formative assessment and learning style on student achievement in a Web-based learning environment. A quasi-experimental research design was used. Participants were 455 seventh grade students from 12 classes of six junior high schools. A Web-based course, named BioCAL, combining three different formative assessment strategies was developed. The formative assessment strategies included Formative Assessment Module of the Web-Based Assessment and Test Analysis system (FAM-WATA) (with six Web-based formative assessment strategies), Normal Module of Web-Based Assessment and Test Analysis system (N-WATA) (only with partial Web-based formative assessment strategy) and Paper and Pencil Test (PPT) (without Web-based formative assessment strategy). Subjects were tested using Kolb's Learning Style Inventory, and assigned randomly by class into three groups. Each group took Web-based courses using one of the formative assessment strategies. Pre- and post-achievement testing was carried out. A one-way ANCOVA analysis showed that both learning style and formative assessment strategy are significant factors affecting student achievement in a Web-based learning environment. However, there is no interaction between these two factors. A post hoc comparison showed that performances of the FAM-WATA group are higher than the N-WATA and PPT groups. Learners with a ‘Diverger’ learning style performed best followed by, ‘Assimilator’, ‘Accommodator’, and ‘Converger’, respectively. Finally, FAM-WATA group students are satisfied with six strategies of the FAM-WATA.
Keywords: Kolb's learning style; WATA system; Web-based formative assessment; biology; e-learning effects; middle school

MOOCs as an alternative for teacher professional development: examining learner persistence in one Chinese MOOC - Wang, Qiong; Chen, Bodong; Fan, Yizhou; Zhang, Guogang (Peking University, 2018)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have developed into a significant international movement, showing great promise in addressing equity, quality, and efficiency issues in global education. To date, many MOOCs have been developed specifically for teacher professional development (TPD). In this regard, an important empirical question remains to be addressed: How and to what extent can MOOCs support equity, quality, and efficiency in teacher professional development? To help fill this knowledge gap, this study, conducted from 2014 to 2016, focused on persistent teacher-learners in a TPD MOOC that was offered for seven consecutive rounds by the X-Learning Center of Peking University. The study found that more than 15% of the 105,383 teachers who enrolled in this MOOC were persistent teacher-learners, defined as learners who enrolled in multiple rounds. Data analysis showed that these persistent teacher-learners had diverse motivations for re-enrollment, including refreshing conceptual understanding, achieving higher scores, earning course certification, and discussing practical problems. The study also found that the persistent teacher-learners developed self-regulated learning skills in the course of multiple rounds of the MOOC and showed significantly higher learning achievement than one-time enrollees. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of both clicklog data and interview data revealed additional insights into the persistent teacher-learners’ learning within the MOOC and their real-world teaching practice beyond the MOOC. Overall, this study contributes to an improved understanding of the potential of MOOCs as an alternative TPD delivery mode in developing countries and sheds light on the future design of effective TPD through MOOCs.
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A case study of using an online community of practice for teachers' professional development at a secondary school in China - Wang, Qiyun; Lu, Zhiping (Learning, Media and Technology, 2012)
In this case study, an online community was designed at a secondary school in China for the teachers to prepare their lessons collectively, reflect on their teaching practices, collect comments from peers, and share resources. A survey was administered to the teachers to investigate their perceptions on the online community for their professional development. Two hundred and eighty-three teachers responded to the survey and eight teachers were further interviewed by email. The result showed that most teachers liked using the online community as they could gain subject knowledge and could obtain support from peers, share experiences and get feedback, and exchange resources. Also, online entries confirmed that transformational changes in teaching pedagogy and students' learning activities occurred along the time. However, certain teachers did not participate in the online community frequently. This paper describes the context of the case study, design dimensions of the online community, teachers' positive perceptions on using the online community, and transformational changes. Also, strategies for promoting effective use of the online community are discussed and follow-up studies to address the challenges involved in this study are proposed. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Keywords: Case Studies; China; Communities of Practice; Distance Education; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education--Teaching Methods And Curriculum; Educational Practices; Electronic Learning; Electronic Mail; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Learning; Lesson Plans; Mail Surveys; Online instruction; Participant Satisfaction; Pedagogy; Polls & surveys; Professional Development; Professional development; Secondary Education; Secondary School Teachers; Secondary school teachers; Teacher Surveys; Teaching Methods; Technology Uses in Education; Transformative Learning; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2096477; __finaldtb; community of practice; lesson planning; professional development; reflection; technology

Artificial intelligence in education: A systematic literature review - Wang, Shan; Wang, Fang; Zhu, Zhen; Wang, Jingxuan; Tran, Tam; Du, Zhao (Expert Systems with Applications, 2024)

An overview of e-learning in China: History, challenges and opportunities - Wang, Yan; Liu, Xuan; Zhang, Zhenhong (Research in Comparative and International Education, 2018)
The Chinese government has attached great importance to the development of e-learning since its emergence in the 1990s. As a consequence of the implementation of a series of policies, China has made significant achievements in the e-learning arena with respect to infrastructure construction, production of resources, academic education, non-academic training, and education for disadvantaged groups. However, due to the constraints of China’s traditional culture, information literacy, and educational mechanisms, challenges have emerged in the implementation of e-learning that need urgently to be addressed. As e-learning in China continues to grow, major research areas such as students’ and teachers’ perspectives on developments in e-learning, teachers’ pedagogical capacity and ongoing professional development in e-learning settings, and the production of more convenient and useful e-learning resources, are likely to be topics of continuing research interest.
Keywords: Challenges; China; ICT in education; e-learning; professional development; successes

Error rates of human reviewers during abstract screening in systematic reviews - Wang, Zhen; Nayfeh, Tarek; Tetzlaff, Jennifer; O’Blenis, Peter; Murad, Mohammad Hassan (PLOS ONE, 2020)
Background Automated approaches to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews are greatly needed. When testing any of these approaches, the criterion standard of comparison (gold standard) is usually human reviewers. Yet, human reviewers make errors in inclusion and exclusion of references. Objectives To determine citation false inclusion and false exclusion rates during abstract screening by pairs of independent reviewers. These rates can help in designing, testing and implementing automated approaches. Methods We identified all systematic reviews conducted between 2010 and 2017 by an evidence-based practice center in the United States. Eligible reviews had to follow standard systematic review procedures with dual independent screening of abstracts and full texts, in which citation inclusion by one reviewer prompted automatic inclusion through the next level of screening. Disagreements between reviewers during full text screening were reconciled via consensus or arbitration by a third reviewer. A false inclusion or exclusion was defined as a decision made by a single reviewer that was inconsistent with the final included list of studies. Results We analyzed a total of 139,467 citations that underwent 329,332 inclusion and exclusion decisions from 86 unique reviewers. The final systematic reviews included 5.48% of the potential references identified through bibliographic database search (95% confidence interval (CI): 2.38% to 8.58%). After abstract screening, the total error rate (false inclusion and false exclusion) was 10.76% (95% CI: 7.43% to 14.09%). Conclusions This study suggests important false inclusion and exclusion rates by human reviewers. When deciding the validity of a future automated study selection algorithm, it is important to keep in mind that the gold standard is not perfect and that achieving error rates similar to humans may be adequate and can save resources and time.
Keywords: Automation; Cardiovascular medicine; Citation analysis; Database searching; Health screening; Mental health and psychiatry; Primary care; Systematic reviews

Big hurdles thwart Jubilee’s laptops plan. Daily Nation - Wanzala, O.; Nyamai, E (2018)
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Laptops lie idle in schools on lack of skilled tutors - Wanzala, Wednesday (Business Daily, 2018)
Lower primary public school teachers are not using technology in classrooms due to computer illiteracy.

Inclusive Education and Children with Disabilities: Quality Education for All in Low and Middle income Countries - Wapling, Lorraine (Christian Blind Mission, 2016)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found; ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

The Impact of Learning Design on Student Learning in Technology Integrated Lessons - Waqar, Yasira (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of learning design on knowledge transfer in technology integrated lessons where limited technologies are available to students in a third world country. This article includes an evaluation of the learning designs of technology integrated lessons in a private school in Pakistan. Qualitative research methodologies were employed to see the impact of learning design on knowledge transfer of students when similar technologies are used at the same grade level but the learning designs are different. The results revealed that knowledge transfer depends on learning design in technology integrated lessons where limited technologies are available. In third world countries like Pakistan the concept of technology integration in schools is relatively new and the schools do not have access to sophisticated online learning environments like agent based learning or environments where in built scaffolds are provided to students. So technologies like Microsoft office, videos, digital cameras and projector are being used in private schools to improve the teaching and learning experience of students and learning design plays a very important role in knowledge transfer.

Redesigning the design: a review of education technology interventions in Pakistan - Waqar, Yasira; Bokhari, Tahira Batool (Pan-Commonwealth Forum 9 (PCF9), 2019)
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Technology Enters the Classroom: An Evaluation of Educational Technology Initiatives in Punjab - Waqar, Yasira; Bokhari, Tahira Batool (2017)
This article provides a critical review of educational technology initiatives of the Punjab government. The attributes of meaningful learning with technology are used as a criterion to evaluate the benefits of technology initiatives in the education sector. An historical perspective of the integration of technology in Pakistan is given in the beginning to have a clear idea as how technology was introduced in the private schools in 1990s and what are the latest trends in these schools? The initiatives of Punjab government are then elaborated by discussing the following projects: Daanish Schools, School Reform Roadmap, Technology to Improve School Processes and Digitized Textbooks and Intelligent Tutoring System. After an analysis of these initiatives, a review of educational technology initiatives in developing countries is done to compare the successful and not so successful projects of educational technology. The article concludes with suggestions for educationists and policy-makers in Pakistan.

Can't Wait To Learn - War Child
War Child empowers children and young people in conflict areas by providing psychosocial support, stimulating education and protecting children from the effects of war.

Can’t Wait to Learn Lebanon - War Child (2019)

Interactive Radio Instruction Brings Learning Back to Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo - War Child Canada (2017)

Can't Wait To Learn - War Child Holland (Warchild English, 2020)
War Child empowers children and young people in conflict areas by providing psychosocial support, stimulating education and protecting children from the effects of war.

War Child Care System - Can't Wait to Learn | War Child - War Child Holland

We believe no child should be part of war. Ever. | War Child - War Child Holland

Research Report for Phases I and II e-Learning Sudan (2012 – 2015) - War Child Holland; Afhad University for Women; TNO (2016)

Research Report: E-Learning Sudan Phases 1 & II | Education Links - War Child Holland; Ahfad University for Women, TNO (Unicef Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, 2016)
With this report, programme partners, War Child Holland, Ahfad University for Women, and Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), will present research findings from e-Learning Sudan, an innovation technology education programme for out-of-school students to access quality education in Sudan.

Piloting Gobee — What we learned from the first pilot of the gamified learning measurement tool - War Child Holland; War Child Jordan; NYU Global Ties (HEA Learning Series, 2022)
Written in collaboration with War Child Holland, War Child Jordan and NYU Global Ties

Benefits and Limitations of iPads in the High School Science Classroom and a Trophic Cascade Lesson Plan - Ward, Nicholas D; Finley, Rachel J; Keil, Richard G; Clay, Tansy G (Journal of Geoscience Education, 2013)
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The work lives of disabled teachers: Revisiting inclusive education in English schools - Ware, Hannah; Singal, Nidhi; Groce, Nora (Disability & Society, 2022)
Globally there is a focus on ensuring a more diverse teaching workforce ensuring representation across gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity. However, little attention is paid to ensuring the inclusion of disabled teachers. This paper examines the work lives of ten disabled teachers in schools across England. Their experiences suggest that whilst there is a strong discourse on inclusive education within English schools and policies this does not necessarily extend to disabled teachers themselves. Whilst the disabled teachers participating in this research demonstrated ways in which their presence disrupted normative notions of able-bodiedness in education and they actively created spaces for inclusive learning, the majority also reported facing significant discrimination and barriers whilst at work. Urgent change is needed to support disabled teachers to access effective training as well as the removal of barriers to enable disabled teachers to remain in the workforce and progress their careers.

ICT in community-based lifelong learning center: model for northeast Thailand - Waring, Marilyn; Sacchanan, Chutima (Auckland University of Technology, 2008)
Keywords: ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Save Our Education: Protect every child’s right to learn in the COVID-19 response and recovery - Warren, Hollie; Wagner, Emma (Save the Children, 2020)
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RECOVR Sierra Leone: Tracking the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic - Warren, Shana; Parkerson, Doug; Collins, Elliott (Innovations for Poverty Action, 2020)

Technology and social inclusion: rethinking the digital divide - Warschauer, Mark (MIT Press, 2003)
Keywords: Digital divide; Marginality, Social

Can One Laptop Per Child Save the World's Poor? - Warschauer, Mark; Ames, Morgan (Journal of International Affairs, 2010)
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program is one of the most ambitious educational reform initiatives the world has ever seen. The program has developed a radically new low-cost laptop computer and aggressively promoted its plans to put the computer in the hands of hundreds of millions of children around the world, including in the most impoverished nations. Though fewer than 2 million of OLPC's XO computers have been distributed as of this writing, the initiative has caught the attention of world leaders, influenced developments in the global computer industry and sparked controversy and debate about the best way to improve the lot of the world's poor. With six years having passed since Nicholas Negroponte first unveiled the idea, this paper appraises the program's progress and impact and, in so doing, takes a fresh look at OLPC's assumptions. The paper reviews the theoretical underpinnings of OLPC, analyzes the program's development and summarizes the current state of OLPC deployments around the world. The analysis reveals that provision of individual laptops is a utopian vision for the children in the poorest countries, whose educational and social futures could be more effectively improved if the same investments were instead made on more sustainable and proven interventions. Middle- and high-income countries may have a stronger rationale for providing individual laptops to children, but will still want to eschew OLPC's technocentric vision. In summary, OLPC represents the latest in a long line of technologically utopian development schemes that have unsuccessfully attempted to solve complex social problems with overly simplistic solutions.
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Promoting academic literacy with technology: successful laptop programs in K-12 schools - Warschauer, Mark; Grant, David; Real, Gabriel Del; Rousseau, Michele (System, 2004)
One of the main challenges that US schools face in educating English language learners is developing their academic literacy. This paper presents case studies of two K-12 schools that successfully employ high-technology environments, including laptop computers for each student, toward the development of English language learners’ academic language proficiency and academic literacy. In the first school, Latino fourth-grade students use laptops and other new technologies for a wide variety of pre- and post-reading tasks as part of their effort to transition from learning to read to reading to learn. In the second school, diverse immigrant and refugee students at the middle school level combine technology use with Expeditionary Learning to carry out community projects leading to the development of sophisticated products. In both schools, technology is used to engage students in cognitively demanding activity, motivate independent reading, and provide scaffolding for language development, while the researchers also made use of technology to document learning processes and outcomes. Taken together, the schools offer valuable lessons for utilization of technology to promote academic literacy among culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Keywords: Laptops; Literacy; Technology

Technology and equity in schooling: Deconstructing the digital divide - Warschauer, Mark; Knobel, Michele; Stone, Leeann (Educational policy, 2004)
Keywords: equity; technology

Balancing the One-To-One Equation: Equity and Access in Three Laptop Programs - Warschauer, Mark; Zheng, Binbin; Niiya, Melissa; Cotten, Shelia; Farkas, George (Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014)

Using Technology to Change Education: Blended Learning in the Science Classroom - Washington, LaToya (2020)
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Usage and Impact of ICT in Education Sector; A Study of Pakistan - Wasif, M. Nisar; Munir, Ehsan Ullah; Shad, Shafqat Ali (arXiv:1206.5132 [cs], 2012)
In many countries, information and communication technology (ICT) has a lucid impact on the development of educational curriculum. This is the era of Information Communication Technology, so to perk up educational planning it is indispensable to implement the ICT in Education sector. Student can perform well throughout the usage of ICT. ICT helps the students to augment their knowledge skills as well as to improve their learning skills. To know with reference to the usage and Impact of ICT in Education sector of Pakistan, we accumulate data from 429 respondents from 5 colleges and universities, we use convenient sampling to accumulate the data from district Rawalpindi of Pakistan. The consequences show that Availability and Usage of ICT improves the knowledge and learning skills of students. This indicates that existence of ICT is improving the educational efficiency as well as obliging for making policies regarding education sector.
Keywords: Computer Science - Other Computer Science; ⛔ No DOI found

Social Network Analysis - Wasserman, S.; Faust, K. (1994)
Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities and is an important addition to standard social and behavioral research, which is primarily concerned with attributes of the social units. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications reviews and discusses methods for the analysis of social networks with a focus on applications of these methods to many substantive examples. It is a reference book that can be used by those who want a comprehensive review of network methods, or by researchers who have gathered network data and want to find the most appropriate method by which to analyze it. It is also intended for use as a textbook as it is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the methodology and applications of the field.

Fertility Behavior and Psychological Stress: The Mediating Influence of Gender Norm Beliefs Among Egyptian Women - Waszak, Cynthia; Severy, Lawrence J.; Kafafi, Laila; Badawi, Isis (Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2001)
The influence of gender norms on women's family planning experiences is a finding that cuts across numerous studies included in Family Health International's multi-country Women's Studies Project. This paper explores findings from one of these studies on the mediating influence of beliefs about gender norms on the relationship between fertility behavior and psychological well-being. Using cross-sectional survey data from 4,908 Egyptian women, hierarchical multiple regression models were tested with depression and anxiety as the dependent variables. Independent variables included three demographic variables, two measures of beliefs about gender norms developed from survey items using exploratory factor analytic techniques, and two fertility behavior variables—use of family planning and number of children. Gender norm beliefs predicted both anxiety and depression. The statistical analyses demonstrated a separate effect of family planning use on anxiety, independent of gender norm beliefs, but the effect of family planning behaviors on depression disappeared when gender norm beliefs were included in the regression model, which indicates a mediating effect of gender norm beliefs. Although cross-sectional data do not allow for the determination of causality among the three types of variables, a conceptual framework is offered for the possible causal mechanisms for the identified relationships.

E-learning combats Southeast Asia's teacher shortages - Watanabe, Sadachika (2017)

Number of pay TV households in Ghana 2014-2023 - Watson, Amy (Statista, 2019)
The timeline presents the number of pay TV households in Ghana from 2014 to 2018, and a forecast thereof until 2023.

Understanding changing social norms and practices around girls’ education and marriage - Watson, Carol (ODI, 2014)
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Learning through television in low-income contexts: mitigating the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) - Watson, Joe (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This is part of our coronavirus (COVID-19) and EdTech series. Written by Joe Watson, research assistant at the University of Cambridge One of the many consequences of COVID-19 is that more than a billion caregivers will soon face the stark (and often scary) realisation that they must become their children’s teachers. This will be particularly difficult in low-income contexts where…
Keywords: _DOILIVE; _EdTechHub_Output; ___working_potential_duplicate; _zenodoETH

An exploratory investigation into the factors related to EdTech use among Kenyan girls - Watson, Joe; Baier, Jasmin; Mughogho, Winnie; Millrine, Mark (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023)
This paper contributes to the scarce literature on factors affecting EdTech use in households. These factors were considered through exploratory mixed-methods analyses of cross-sectional data on Kenyan girls and caregivers, captured during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quantitative analysis of the child dataset (n = 544) suggested the importance of both structural factors—such as technology hardware availability—and non-structural factors—including caregiver permission. Findings were supported by a thematic analysis of interview data from girls' caregivers (n = 58), which emphasised the role they play in girls' use of EdTech. Interviews also highlighted numerous caregiver concerns with EdTech, related to the relevance and rigour of educational content, the possibility of children accessing age-inappropriate material and child health (especially eyesight). Policy makers could alleviate these concerns by providing guidance on EdTech use and clearly signalling their approval of verified initiatives. Practitioner notes What is already known about this topic EdTech can benefit girls' education, yet there are various barriers to it being used. Existing research shows clearly that EdTech use can be impeded by structural factors (eg, hardware ownership). However, we find insufficient empirical evidence on the role of non-structural or behavioural factors. What this paper adds This paper addresses this gap, using a mixed-methods approach to explore the influence of 33 different measures (including non-structural factors) that could affect the number of hours girls spend using EdTech at home. Findings from a quantitative sample of girls (n = 544) and a qualitative sample of girls' caregivers (n = 58) highlighted the importance of non-structural factors, especially caregiver permission. The variable most strongly associated with girls' EdTech usage in our selected quantitative model concerned whether this was sanctioned by their caregivers. Our qualitative data suggested why caregiver permission to use EdTech might be withheld: caregivers emphasised perceived concerns about the risks and rigour of EdTech. Implications for practice and/or policy Our findings suggest the viability of policy interventions that provide EdTech guidance to caregivers. Caregivers uncertain about EdTech could be reassured of the appropriateness of verified initiatives, while those already convinced might be aided in their attempts to support EdTech learning. Such guidance could provide a low-cost means of further exploiting the benefits that household EdTech learning can provide.
Keywords: COVID-19; EdTech; Kenya; caregivers; girls' education; ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

The relationship between educational television and mathematics capability in Tanzania - Watson, Joe; Hennessy, Sara; Vignoles, Anna (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021)
Previous studies have often demonstrated that educational television can have a positive effect on learning outcomes in low-income countries when delivered in controlled settings. However, existing research in low-resource contexts has scarcely considered the association between child outcomes and viewing in usual environments (ie, at their home, a friend’s home or a relative’s home). This lack of research is striking, as evidence from controlled settings might provide limited information on the effects of normal television exposure. This paper, therefore, investigates the relationship between normal exposure to a popular Tanzania-produced cartoon, Ubongo Kids and mathematics capability, as represented by plausible values derived from an item response theory model applied to children’s test responses. Cross-sectional investigation of a sample of 38 682 Tanzanian children suggested normal educational television exposure to be significantly associated with mathematics capability, when controlling for age, sex, school enrolment, Kiswahili attainment and household fixed effects. While cross-sectional results are not necessarily causal, the findings in this paper broadly correspond with those from previous designs using repeated observations. What is more, considering association results alongside cost and viewership estimates suggests television-based interventions to be highly cost effective. Practitioner Notes What is already known about this topic National data for Tanzania suggests the country to have both low levels of mathematics proficiency and considerable access to television technology. Educational television-based interventions might, therefore, be worthy of consideration by educational policymakers, especially given that studies conducted in controlled settings indicate that television can deliver learning benefits. There is, however, little evidence concerning educational television exposure outside of controlled settings. Only one such study in a low-income context that concerned the association between learning outcomes and viewing among primary-age children has been identified. What this paper adds This paper addresses this dearth of research by investigating the association between normal exposure to a Tanzanian cartoon, Ubongo Kids and mathematics capability, as derived from an item response theory model applied to the test responses of 38 682 children. Cross-sectional findings suggest the association between normal television exposure and mathematics capability to be significant. Further, a cost-effectiveness comparison with alternate interventions in comparable contexts indicates that educational television is highly cost-effective. Implications for practice and/or policy The findings presented in this paper concerning educational television viewership in usual environments act to triangulate those from prior research conducted in controlled settings. As such, policymakers in low-income contexts now possess more convincing evidence on the potential influence of educational television interventions. Additionally, the cost-effectiveness comparison made suggests that educational television should be considered a viable option by policymakers seeking to address learning outcomes with limited resources.
Keywords: Tanzania; cost effectiveness; educational television; mathematics

Educational Television: A Rapid Evidence Review - Watson, Joe; McIntyre, Nora (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This Rapid Evidence Review (RER) gives an overview of the recent literature concerning how the use of educational television might support children’s learning in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In this review, educational television is defined as television designed with research-based knowledge of how children use and understand television that systematically incorporates academic or social curricula into its content. In low-income contexts, educational television material could be delivered through videos played in schools that are supported by corresponding teacher guidance (e.g. the Mexican school-based T elesecundaria programme), or broadcast on public channels (e.g. the Tanzanian animation, Ubongo Kids). As such, certain educational television projects are capable of functioning even in circumstances where access to formal schooling facilities is restricted. This review therefore provides information that is particularly valuable in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Blending Learning: The Convergence of Online and Face-to-Face Education - Watson, John (North American Council for Online Learning, 2008)
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The relationship between educational television and mathematics capability in Tanzania - Watson, Joseph (University of Cambridge, 2020)
Previous studies have frequently demonstrated that educational television viewing can have a positive effect on learning in low-income country contexts when shows are delivered in controlled settings. However, the consequence of day-to-day viewing in such contexts has scarcely been considered. Additionally, no recent published research has provided any information on the costs of educational television. The lack of research in these areas is striking. Examining educational television viewing in monitored settings provides limited information on the influence of routine television consumption. Further, the broad reach of numerous educational television programmes should provide low per-viewer costs and, resultantly, strong cost-effectiveness findings. This PhD study therefore examined (1) the association between educational television exposure and mathematics capability and (2) the cost effectiveness of educational television interventions. To achieve this, research was carried out that centred on Ubongo Kids – a popular Tanzanian-produced show delivering mathematics-focused content. Quantitative investigation into the association between educational television exposure and mathematics capability used nationally representative data, collected by Uwezo Tanzania. A household fixed-effects model showed that exposure to educational television was significantly associated with mathematics capability among children aged 7-16, when controlling for age, sex, school enrolment and Kiswahili attainment. Findings from this model were used in cost-effectiveness calculations, alongside cost data and an estimate of the number of Ubongo Kids viewers. Results compared favourably against those for other interventions, with calculations regarding Ubongo Kids’ ongoing activities suggesting it to have been more cost effective than any other intervention previously investigated using the same cost-effectiveness approach. These findings indicate that in low-income contexts: educational television programmes can aid learning; and, that directing a greater proportion of available educational resources towards educational television interventions may benefit educational outcomes.
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The relationship between educational television and mathematics capability in Tanzania - Watson, Joseph; Hennessy, Sara; Vignoles, Anna (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020)
Previous studies have frequently demonstrated that educational television viewing can have a positive effect on learning in low-income country contexts when shows are delivered in controlled settings. However, the consequence of day-to-day viewing in such contexts has scarcely been considered. Additionally, no recent published research has provided any information on the costs of educational television. The lack of research in these areas is striking. Examining educational television viewing in monitored settings provides limited information on the influence of routine television consumption. Further, the broad reach of numerous educational television programmes should provide low perviewer costs and, resultantly, strong cost-effectiveness findings. This PhD study therefore examined (1) the association between educational television exposure and mathematics capability and (2) the cost effectiveness of educational television interventions. To achieve this, research was carried out that centred on Ubongo Kids – a popular Tanzanian-produced show delivering mathematics-focused content.
Keywords: Tanzania; ___working_potential_duplicate; cost effectiveness; educational television; mathematics; ⛔ No DOI found

From Ebola to coronavirus: education must not be forgotten in a health crisis - Watt, Ewan (Theirworld, 2020)
The challenge faced during the 2014 epidemic in West Africa of ensuring that children don’t fall between the cracks now confronts the whole world.

iPadiCan: Trialling iPads to support primary and secondary students with disabilities - Watts, Liz; Brennan, Sharon; Phelps, Renata (Australian Educational Computing, 2012)
iPads have only been on the market since April 2010 but have rapidly gained great attention within educational communities. While their potential to support teaching and learning has been advocated by many, as yet little empirical research has been released on their application in primary and secondary classrooms. This paper reports on an action research study which investigated the possible role of iPads in supporting learning for students with disabilities. The project sought to document the practical steps required to implement iPads in classrooms, the applications which might be most educationally effective, together with the perceptions of students, teachers, parents and teaching assistants (TAs). The study provides evidence of the significant potential of the devices for children with a wide range of disabilities and, through a number of brief vignettes, demonstrates their capacity to support both learning and socialisation.
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From Principle to Practice: Implementing the Principles for Digital Development - Waugaman, Adele (Principles for Digital Development Working Group, 2016)

Inclusive and Equitable Education in Kenya – RELI - Wawira, Margaret

Primary school learning in sub-Saharan Africa during COVID-19: A scoping review of responses and recovery initiatives induced during school closures - Wawire, Brenda; Barnes-Story, Adrienne; Kiru, Elisheba; Kim, Sungkyum (Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2023)
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruptions in education. School closures quickly followed the onset of the pandemic to contain the spread of the virus, forcing millions of students out of their regular academic calendars. Countries put in place interventions aimed to reduce the deleterious effects of school closures and disruptions in learning. For instance, many countries used various mediums to provide students with distance learning. This scoping review examines the interventions that education systems in low- and middle-income Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries (LMIC) implemented to mitigate learning loss in reading and writing skills among early grade learners (i.e., children attending primary schools) and discusses the reach of those programs. This review highlights the proportion of students reached by the targeted mitigation measures, revealing that LMIC countries in SSA provided students with remote learning opportunities through radio and television programming, provided teachers with professional development on the use of novel tools, and provided parents and families with support to help learners at home. However, these disruptions affected the traditional assessment methods. Various assessment methods were implemented to measure student progress, but there is a need for appropriate progress monitoring tools and accurate data to measure the effectiveness of the interventions. Many LMIC implemented Return-to-School policy frameworks, processes, and principles that ensured safe learning continuity.
Keywords: COVID-19; early grades; interventions; learning loss; literacy; responses

Experimenting With Teacher Professional Development: Motives and Methods - Wayne, Andrew J.; Yoon, Kwang Suk; Zhu, Pei; Cronen, Stephanie; Garet, Michael S. (Educational Researcher, 2008)
A strong base of research is needed to guide investments in teacher professional development (PD). This article considers the status of research on PD and articulates a particular direction for future work. Little is known about whether PD can have a positive impact on achievement when a program is delivered across a range of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers. Despite a consensus in the literature on the features of effective PD, there is limited evidence on the specific features that make a difference for achievement. This article explains the benefits offered by experiments in addressing current research needs and?for those conducting and interpreting such studies?discusses the unique methodological issues encountered when experimental methods are applied to the study of PD.
Keywords: C:United States / International

Sierra Leone Digital Learning Landscape Analysis: Developing the National Digital Learning Strategy - Waziri, Nafisa; Mufti, Abdal; Ramesh Vasudevan, Sharanya; Beoku-Betts, Iman; Oyedele, Oluwatomisin (EdTech Hub, 2025)
In 2024, the World Bank submitted a request to EdTech Hub's Helpdesk to support the Government of Sierra Leone in developing a National Digital Learning Strategy. The Hub initiated the process with the creation of this digital learning landscape analysis. The report identifies achievements and progress to date, as well as key challenges and priority areas going forward. It is based on primary and secondary data collection methods, including key informant interviews, focus group discussions, and a comprehensive desk review. Other relevant sources to gain insight into existing EdTech initiatives, interventions, and challenges within the country were also reviewed. Keywords: EdTech; National Digital Learning Strategy; landscape analysis; Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education; Teaching Service Commission. An output of the EdTech Hub, https://edtechhub.org/
Keywords: _r:AddedByMyEducationEvidence

Digital 2022: Timor-Leste - We are Social (2022)

Challenge and srivers of over-Enrollment in the early years of primary school in Uganda - Weatherholt, Tara; Jordan, Rachel; Crouch, Luis; Barnett, Ed; Pressley, Jennifer (International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019)
Consistent over-enrollment, together with low official repetition rates, in the early years of school indicates inaccurate reporting of repetition, which may mask the reasons for low primary school completion. Actual repetition rates may be higher and pose issues for teachers through overcrowding of classrooms and issues for governments through inefficient education systems. This research explores repetition rates of students in Primary 1 in Uganda and considers the implications for efficiency and quality of education for the early years of school. The sample comprised 1440 students in Primary 1 classrooms in 120 schools. Interviews were conducted with 1318 caregivers of randomly selected students and 1439 teachers of the same students, and official records from 118 schools were examined to compare age and repetition rates. Findings showed that caregiver- and teacher-reported repetition is much higher than officially reported by schools; that repetition is strongly linked to non-attendance in pre-primary schooling; and that caregivers reported more over-age students, fewer target-age students, and more under-age students than official school records. Policy implications include the need for dialogue around repetition rates and the possible efficiency effects of less-costly, pre-primary education on the total primary schooling cycle.
Keywords: Early childhood; Education efficiency; Low-income countries; Pre-primary education; Repetition

Girls’ Education and EdTech: A Rapid Evidence Review - Webb, Daniel; Barringer, Katie; Torrance, Rebecca; Mitchell, Joel (EdTech Hub, 2020)
This Rapid Evidence Review (RER) provides an overview of the existing literature on the use of technology in supporting girls’ education in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The RER has been produced in response to the novel 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19), and the resulting widespread global shutdown of schools. It therefore has an emphasis on transferable insights that may be applicable to educational responses resulting from the limitations to the continuation of schooling caused by COVID-19. Established approaches to maintaining continuity of education for the most marginalised have particular salience during this period because of the significant increase in the number of students at risk of disruption. Research consistently shows that while education across the board is negatively affected by crisis situations, the schooling of girls is disproportionately impacted. The RER aims neither to advocate nor discourage the use of technology in girls’ education in response to the present COVID-19 pandemic, but rather to provide an accessible summary of existing evidence on the topic so that educators, policy makers and donors might make informed decisions about the potential role of technology in delivering education for girls.
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Does changing behavioral intentions engender behavior change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence - Webb, Thomas L.; Sheeran, Paschal (Psychological Bulletin, 2006)
Numerous theories in social and health psychology assume that intentions cause behaviors. However, most tests of the intention- behavior relation involve correlational studies that preclude causal inferences. In order to determine whether changes in behavioral intention engender behavior change, participants should be assigned randomly to a treatment that significantly increases the strength of respective intentions relative to a control condition, and differences in subsequent behavior should be compared. The present research obtained 47 experimental tests of intention-behavior relations that satisfied these criteria. Meta-analysis showed that a medium-to-large change in intention (d = 0.66) leads to a small-to-medium change in behavior (d = 0.36). The review also identified several conceptual factors, methodological features, and intervention characteristics that moderate intention-behavior consistency.
Keywords: Attitude; Cooperative Behavior; Female; Humans; Intention; Male; Social Behavior

What influences teachers to change their practice - Webster, Alison; McNeish, Di; Scott, Sara; Maynard, Linda; Haywood (National Centre for Social Research for Centre for Understanding Behaviour Change, 2012)

How to Develop an Acceptable Use Policy: The Steps to Take - Webswise (Webwise.ie, 2016)
Creating an AUP is vital for your school, in addressing internet safety issues for students. Here we look at how to develop an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

Planning for educational change: putting people and their contexts first - Wedell, Martin (Bloomsbury publishing, 2009)
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Factors associated with attention deficit hyperactive disorder in school-age Thai children - Weerakul, Jiranun; Patigburt, Pakakrong (Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand, 2023)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found; ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Online safety: making the internet safer by tackling harmful content - WEF (World Economic Forum, 2022)
Delivering safe online experiences is essential for global businesses and individuals. Several stakeholders are collaborating to improve online safety.

Virtual learning communities: Success factors and challenges - Wegener, R.; Leimeister, Jan Marco (International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2012)
Despite their didactical potential many Virtual Learning Communities VLCs fail in enhancing learning outcomes. Therefore, we synthesise factors most critical for establishing a successful VLC. Applying a structured literature review, we searched for studies dealing with VLCs in the well known databases Business Source Premier, Science Direct and ERIC. We identified, classified and synthesised 64 relevant papers. Results indicate that critical success factors include a strong instructor that acts in different facilitation roles, face-to-face meetings that help establishing social ties and well structured small-group assignments that scaffold the learning process. Main challenges are a lack of common goals, feelings of inhibition and technical problems. Based on the review, we offer concrete advice for instructors building up VLCs. We suggest that future research should focus on the design of methods and tools for instructors to facilitate the learning process in a less resource demanding way.

Dialogic education and technology: Expanding the space of learning - Wegerif, Rupert (Springer Science & Business Media, 2007)

Online learning performance and satisfaction: do perceptions and readiness matter? - Wei, Huei-Chuan; Chou, Chien (Distance Education, 2018)
The current study proposes a comprehensive structural model to determine whether online learning perceptions and online learning readiness affect students’ online learning performance and course satisfaction. A questionnaire was voluntarily completed by 356 undergraduate students enrolled in a cross-campus, general education, asynchronous online course in Taiwan. The structural equation modeling analyses indicated that students’ computer/Internet self-efficacy and motivation for learning exerted a direct, positive effect on their online discussion score and course satisfaction. Furthermore, it was found that students’ computer/Internet self-efficacy for online learning readiness had a mediated effect not only on online learning perceptions and online discussion score but also on online learning perceptions and course satisfaction. The findings of this research are helpful for both academics and practitioners of online learning to design online courses that particularly emphasize computer/Internet self-efficacy.
Keywords: course satisfaction; learning readiness; online learning perceptions; student performance

Back to school with telepresence robot technology: A qualitative pilot study about how telepresence robots help school-aged children and adolescents with cancer to remain socially and academically connected with their school classes during treatment - Weibel, Mette; Nielsen, Martin Kaj Fridh; Topperzer, Martha Krogh; Hammer, Nanna Maria; Møller, Sarah Wagn; Schmiegelow, Kjeld; Bækgaard Larsen, Hanne (Nursing Open, 2020)
Aim: To explore how an AV1 telepresence robot helps school-aged children and adolescents with cancer to remain socially and academically connected with their school classes during cancer treatment. Design: Qualitative pilot study. Methods: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with school-aged children and adolescents (N = 3, 12–14 years) diagnosed with cancer, their parents (N = 3), teachers (N = 2), classmates (12–14 years, N = 15, focus group interviews) and healthcare professionals (N = 4). Participant observation was performed in the child or adolescents' homes and in the classrooms during education participation via an AV1 telepresence robot. Results: Five themes emerged: expectations, sociality, learning, spatiality and technology. Participants experienced the robots as facilitating social interaction processes with classmates and inclusion in learning activities, reducing their sense of loneliness and lacking behind educationally. Nevertheless, multiple factors determine whether the robot is perceived as exclusive, including the technical functionality of the robot, spatiality in the classroom and mutual expectations of the parties involved.
Keywords: cancer; childhood illness; education; school nursing; technology

The Learning Environment as a Chaotic and Complex Adaptive System - Weichhart, Georg (systems-journal.eu, 2013)
Thrivability is a novel concept describing the intention to go beyond sustainability, allowing a system to flourish (Russell, 2010). For a society or organization to be thrivable, educated, responsible acting agents are needed. Traditional education focuses on (efficient) reproduction of existing organised bodies of information (Dewey, 1938). We argue that complex adaptive systems theory and chaos theory provide concepts well suited to inform the design of learning environments, in order to facilitate a thrivable organization. This learning is not linear and externally controlled, but happens in a chaotic, yet guided manner. After discussing the suitability of the theoretical body of these general approaches, we show how a concrete progressive education approach, called the Dalton-Plan pedagogy (Parkhurst, 1923, 2010), implements and supports these elements. By doing so, we show that the Dalton-Plan pedagogy is well suited for education of agents working in and for thrivable organizations. Support for teachers as part of this evolving learning system is provided by an e-learning environment.
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Nudging in education: from theory towards guidelines for successful implementation - Weijers, Robert J.; de Koning, Björn B.; Paas, Fred (European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021)
Nudging is one of the strategies from behavioral economics that aims to influence behavior by changing the environment. We propose that it could also be a valuable means to influence behavior in educational contexts. However, implementation of nudging in education is yet sparse. We describe the relevant issues to consider when applying nudging in education, arguing that a focus on the long-term effects and underlying processes of a nudge is necessary for successful implementation. Then, we aim to facilitate this implementation of nudging in education by making a distinction between nudges that is relevant for overcoming these issues. Based on the framework proposed by Hansen and Jespersen (European Journal of Risk Regulation, 4(1), 3–28, 2013), we distinguish between Type 1 and Type 2 nudges, and transparent and non-transparent nudges, resulting in four nudge categories. For each of these nudge categories, we determine its suitability for different educational goals. The resulting decision matrix can help researchers and practitioners when designing nudges for an educational context.
Keywords: Educational psychology; Instructional support; Learning behavior; Nudging; Teaching strategies

Constructivist learning systems: a new paradigm - Weiqi Li (Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001)
The educational enterprise is in the midst of a philosophical shift from a behaviorist to a constructivist paradigm. If constructivism is to be taken seriously as a new educational paradigm in the information age, learning technology R&D must pay more attention to learners instead of teachers. A constructivist learning environment (CLE) is a technology-rich, open place where a learner can use a variety of tools and information resources in his pursuit of learning goals and problem-solving activities. Wherein the learner can draw upon information resources and tools to actively construct knowledge, generate a diverse array of ideas, develop multiple modes of representation, engage in social interaction, and solve authentic problems. Four major elements are bound together by their roles in the establishment of a CLE: public knowledge system; distributed instructional system; learning community; constructivist learning system.
Keywords: Buildings; CLE; Collaborative work; Education; Educational technology; Information technology; Learning systems; Problem-solving; Process control; Research and development; Shape; constructivist learning environments; constructivist learning systems; constructivist paradigm; distributed instructional system; educational enterprise; educational paradigm; educational technology; human factors; information age; information resources; learning community; learning goals; learning technology R&d; philosophical shift; problem-solving activities; public knowledge system; social aspects of automation; social interaction; teaching; user interfaces

Nothing as Practical as Good Theory : Exploring Theory-Based Evaluation for Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families | Semantic Scholar - Weiss, Carol

Nothing as practical as good theory: Exploring theory-based evaluation for comprehensive community initiatives for children and families - Weiss, Carol H. (New approaches to evaluating community initiatives: Concepts, methods, and contexts, 1995)
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Computerized Adaptive Testing for Effective and Efficient Measurement in Counseling and Education - Weiss, David J. (Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2004)

Application of Computerized Adaptive Testing to Educational Problems - Weiss, David J.; Kingsbury, G. Gage (Journal of Educational Measurement, 1984)
Three applications of computerized adaptive testing (CAT) to help solve problems encountered in educational settings are described and discussed. Each of these applications makes use of item response theory to select test questions from an item pool to estimate a student's achievement level and its precision. These estimates may then be used in conjunction with certain testing strategies to facilitate certain educational decisions. The three applications considered are (a) adaptive mastery testing for determining whether or not a student has mastered a particular content area, (b) adaptive grading for assigning grades to students, and (c) adaptive self-referenced testing for estimating change in a student's achievement level. Differences between currently used classroom procedures and these CAT procedures are discussed. For the adaptive mastery testing procedure, evidence from a series of studies comparing conventional and adaptive testing procedures is presented showing that the adaptive procedure results in more accurate mastery classifications than do conventional mastery tests, while using fewer test questions.

CONSORT-Equity 2017 extension and elaboration for better reporting of health equity in randomised trials - Welch, Vivian A.; Norheim, Ole F.; Jull, Janet; Cookson, Richard; Sommerfelt, Halvor; Tugwell, Peter; Symposium, CONSORT-Equity and Boston Equity (BMJ, 2017)
We outline CONSORT-Equity 2017 reporting standards, an extension to the CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) statement that aims to improve the reporting of intervention effects in randomised trials where health equity is relevant. Health inequities are unfair differences in health that can be avoided by reasonable action. We defined a randomised trial where health equity is relevant as one that assesses effects on health equity by evaluating an intervention focused on people experiencing social disadvantage or by exploring the difference in the effect of the intervention between two groups (or as a gradient across more than two groups) experiencing different levels of social disadvantage, or both. We held a consensus meeting with diverse potential users from high, middle, and low income countries, including knowledge users such as patients and methodologists. We discussed evidence for each proposed extension item from empirical studies, reviews, key informant interviews, and an online survey, aiming to improve clarity of reporting without imposing undue burden on authors. The new guidance contains equity extensions to 16 items from CONSORT 2010 plus one new item on research ethics reporting, with examples of good practice and a brief explanation and elaboration for each. Widespread uptake of this guidance for the reporting of trials where health equity is relevant will make it easier for decision makers to find and use evidence from randomised trials to reduce unfair inequalities in health.
Keywords: _C:Bulgaria BGR; _C:Canada CAN; _C:India IND; _C:Madagascar MDG; _C:Malawi MWI; _C:Mexico MEX; _C:New Zealand NZL; _C:Norway NOR; _C:Pakistan PAK; _C:Thailand THA; _C:Uganda UGA; _C:United States USA; __C:scheme:1

Public financial management and health service delivery: Necessary, but not sufficient? - Welham, Bryn; Hart, Tom; Mustapha, Shakira; Hadley, Sierd (2017)
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Climate Change Impact on Education - Weng, Boey Chun; Morooka, Rina; Mujtaba, Rustam Shariq; Shitong, Yang (Aide et Action, 2020)
Research report done for Aide et Action On selected ASEAN Countries (Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos PDR)
Keywords: Added through targeted search; ⛔ No DOI found; ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

COVID-19: the gendered impacts of the outbreak - Wenham, Clare; Smith, Julia; Morgan, Rosemary (The Lancet, 2020)
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An Ed-Tech Tragedy? Educational Technologies and School Closures in the Time of COVID-19 - West, Mark (UNESCO Digital Library, 2023)
Keywords: ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Reading in the mobile era - West, Mark; Chew, H.E (UNESCO, 2014)

Reading in the mobile era: a study of mobile reading in developing countries - West, Mark; Chew, Han Ei (UNESCO, 2014)

I'd blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education - West, Mark; Kraut, Rebecca; Ei Chew, Han (UNESCO, 2019)

Pedagogy, Curriculum, Teaching Practices and Teacher Education - Westbrook, J.; Durrani, N; Brown, R (2013)

Beginning to teach inclusively: An analysis of newly-qualified teacher pedagogy in lower primary classes in Tanzania - Westbrook, Jo; Croft, Alison (Teaching and Teacher Education, 2015)
Inclusive pedagogies to support children with disabilities in low-income countries have been neglected, and viewed as ‘specialised’ or optional within teacher education. In contrast, this paper presents details of practices of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) in Tanzania that aim to help all learners to learn even in poorly-resourced schools. It argues that NQTs' positive attitudes and responsibility towards their students can be located in Tanzania's history and their early professional experiences, resulting in an interactionist pedagogy that normalises ‘inclusive’ practices. ‘Learning difficulties’ are relocated from a medical model of disability to a concern with improving teaching and learning for all.

Pedagogy, Curriculum, Teaching Practices and Teacher Education in Developing Countries. Final Report. Education Rigorous Literature Review - Westbrook, Jo; Durrani, Naureen; Brown, Rhona; Orr, David; Pryor, John; Boddy, Janet; Salvi, Francesca (Department for International Development, 2013)
Keywords: C:Low- and middle-income countries; Read; ___working_potential_duplicate; ⛔ No DOI found

Resampling-based multiple testing: Examples and Methods for p-Value Adjustment - Westfall, Peter H; Young, S. Stanley (John Wiley & Sons, 1993)

WFP and Government of Bangladesh deliver high-energy biscuits to school children affected by COVID-19 school closures - WFP (ReliefWeb, 2020)
English News and Press Release on Bangladesh about Education, Food and Nutrition and Epidemic; published on 19 May 2020 by WFP

Mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition of schoolchildren - WFP; FAO; UNICEF (2020)

Why do we care about evidence synthesis? An introduction to the special issue on systematic reviews - White, Howard; Waddington, Hugh (Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2012)
Systematic reviews are currently in high demand in international development. At least 100 new reviews are ongoing or already completed on a range of topics across the board in international development, many of which were commissioned by policy-making agencies. These new reviews need to be based on answerable questions, using methods of analysis and reporting which are appropriate for social and economic development programmes and relevant to users. This introductory paper lays out why we believe systematic reviews should be an important component of evidence-informed development policy and practice. It concludes by introducing the papers collected in this issue, which aim to demonstrate how reviews can be made to live up to the promises generated around them.
Keywords: -FullBiblioUHMLgen; -GeneralCitations; 3ie; CLL:en; Reviewed; impact evaluation; publicImportV1; systematic reviews

Health outcomes in economic evaluation: the QALY and utilities - Whitehead, S. J.; Ali, S. (British Medical Bulletin, 2010)

Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Learning in Rural Kenya’ by Whizz Education (April 2021 - Whizz education (2021)

Assistive technology - WHO (2019)
WHO fact sheet on assistive technology. Assistive technology enables people to live healthy, productive, independent, and dignified lives, and to participate in education, the labour market and civic life.

Assistive Technology. Fact sheet. Retrieved 10 December 2020, from - WHO

Considerations for school-related public health measures in the context of COVID-19 - WHO (2020)

Deafness and Hearing Loss. Fact Sheet - WHO (2017)
Deafness and hearing loss fact sheet from WHO: providing key facts and information on causes, impact, prevention, identification, management and WHO response.

Improving access to assistive technology, Report by the Director-General. - WHO (2017)

International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Framework (ICF) - WHO (2002)

World Report on Disability - WHO (2011)

World Report on Disability - WHO (2011)

Investigating The Benefits Of Incorporating Technology In Instructional Curriculum: Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives From Ghana - Wiafe, Bernard; Akaadom, Bernard (International Journal of Advanced Research, 2019)
The use of technology has gained worldwide recognition in all professions. Teachers have resorted to several technology tools to enhance the work they do in the classroom and to facilitate the understanding of what they teach their students to enhance easy recall and for students to remember what they learn in class. The use of technology tools in the classroom in Ghana has not received much attention from teachers because of challenges with respect to technological infrastructural development. However, with the inclusion of technology in the teacher colleges of education curriculum, new teachers are being trained to incorporate technology into classroom instruction to change the face of teaching and make learners more eager to learn by bringing the understanding of concepts much more clearly to students. The study adopted a mixed method approach to bring to light, the perspectives of teacher trainees and tutors in colleges on the benefits both the teacher and the learner stand to gain in using technologies to deliver instruction in the classroom. It came to light that although there are challenges pre-service teachers tend to face in terms of access to such technologies, they still do their best to include technologies in their lessons whenever possible. This is because of the fact that learners tend to do well on instruction received on lessons delivered using technology as compared to lessons delivered without using technology based on their experience in using both approaches in the classroom. Keywords: Technology, instruction, benefits, curriculum.
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Tertiary students’ engagement with professional learning networks and emerging technologies in learning: The case of a coastal University in West Africa. - Wiafe, Bernard; Takramah, Florence; Bless, Gloria; Akaadom, Bernard (International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2020)
The main aim of this study was to investigate students' views on their engagement with professional learning networks and emerging technologies for students' use and how these impact their studies. A sample of 150 students from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana was used for study. Respondents were selected from second year to final year students pursuing undergraduate degree programmes from three different departments of the university. The research instrument used was a carefully constructed questionnaire. Undergraduate students generally exhibited positive attitude towards the use of professional learning networks and emerging technologies across the five attitudinal subscales they were measured on. As a result, from the findings, it is recommended that the use of professional learning networks and emerging technologies should be taken advantage of at all levels in a university curriculum.
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An animated dictionary for hearing-impaired students in Thailand - Wicha, Santichai; Sharp, Bernadette; Sureephong, Pradorn; Chakpitak, Nopasit; Atkins, Anthony (Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2012)
As English increasingly becomes the international language, many ministerial and educational organisations have identified the need to improve the competence of Thai students in speaking English. While there is significant research devoted to developing software tools to support the teaching of English as a second language, they are mostly concerned with adult learners. This project focuses on addressing the need to improve the teaching of English as a second language to primary school children with hearing impairments. This paper presents the development of an educational software tool referred to as the Total Communication with Animation Dictionary (TCAD), which supports learners in the acquisition and retention of new English lexical knowledge and is based on the theoretical approaches of Total Communication and situated learning. A series of experiments was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the TCAD in improving vocabulary acquisition and retention. Early results are promising with increased learner engagement and performance compared with traditional approaches.
Keywords: Hearing-impaired students; language acquisition; total communication with 3D animation

An animated dictionary for hearing-impaired students in Thailand - Wicha, Santichai; Sharp, Bernadette; Sureephong, Pradorn; Chakpitak, Nopasit; Atkins, Anthony (Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2012)
As English increasingly becomes the international language, many ministerial and educational organisations have identified the need to improve the competence of Thai students in speaking English. While there is significant research devoted to developing software tools to support the teaching of English as a second language, they are mostly concerned with adult learners. This project focuses on addressing the need to improve the teaching of English as a second language to primary school children with hearing impairments. This paper presents the development of an educational software tool referred to as the Total Communication with Animation Dictionary (TCAD), which supports learners in the acquisition and retention of new English lexical knowledge and is based on the theoretical approaches of Total Communication and situated learning. A series of experiments was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of the TCAD in improving vocabulary acquisition and retention. Early results are promising with increased learner engagement and performance compared with traditional approaches.
Keywords: Hearing-impaired students; language acquisition; total communication with 3D animation; ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found

Social media use by undergraduate students of education in Nigeria: a survey - Wickramanayake, Lalith; Muhammad Jika, Saidu (The Electronic Library, 2018)
Purpose This paper aims to investigate teacher students’ perceptions, intentions, experiences, attitudes, opinions and barriers concerning social media use and impact of social media on their learning process. Design/methodology/approach A stratified sampling technique was applied to draw the sample, and 242 teacher students were selected as a sample from three higher educational institutions in Gombe State, Nigeria. A questionnaire survey method was used to collect the data. Data analysis was by means of simple and inferential statistics. Findings The students widely used mobile phones to access social media, and social media was extremely popular for education, entertainment and communication among them. Educational and informational communities were also preferred by students to other social media communities. The study further revealed that effective social media usage among students enhanced their different types of skills including learning. Unstable electricity connections, security and privacy issues, internet costs and unreliable internet connections were recorded as some barriers concerning students’ social media use. Originality/value The outcome of this study will be a unique contribution because the pertinent literature provides little evidence or research highlights concerning teacher students’ social media use. Even more, the results of the present study may be a useful resource for university administrators, education policymakers and innovative teachers in universities – especially in developing countries and particularly Nigeria – when considering integration of modern techniques and technologies with university teaching and learning.
Keywords: Internet-based learning; Media-based teaching; Nigeria; Social media; Teaching students; User studies

Dual-mode teacher professional development: challenges and re-visioning future TPD in Indonesia - Widodo, Ari; Riandi (Teacher Development, 2013)
This paper presents the results of a two-year research project aimed at developing a teacher professional development (TPD) model in Indonesia. New government policies in this nation, its archipelagic nature, vast numbers of teachers and scarcity of support resources present a unique challenge to TPD. A needs assessment was conducted to identify teachers’ professional needs. Based on the results of this assessment, a dual-mode TPD that combines face-to-face sessions and online sessions was developed. Participation in face-to-face sessions was relatively high but the participation rate in online sessions was very low. Incentives, teachers’ autonomy as professional learners, ICT skills and infrastructure are important considerations when designing TPD in Indonesia. This study and an analysis of TPD policy allow us to suggest future directions for TPD in Indonesia
Keywords: CONTINUING education; EDUCATION & state; EDUCATION -- Forecasting; ERIC, Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE); Education--Teaching Methods And Curriculum; Educational Change; Educational Strategies; Elementary Secondary Education; FORECASTING; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; HIGHER education; Higher Education; INDONESIA; Indonesia; Information Skills; Instructional Design; Interviews; Models; Needs Assessment; Online instruction; PROFESSIONAL education; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Postsecondary Education; Professional development; Public policy; Questionnaires; Science Teachers; TEACHER certification; TEACHER development; TEACHER education; Teacher Education; Teacher education; __:import:01; __:match:final; __:matched; __:study_id:2097039; ___working_potential_duplicate; __finaldtb; dual-mode professional development; online training; teacher certification; teacher education; teacher education futures; teacher professional development in Indonesia