TY - JOUR TI - Staying or leaving? Designing for persistence in an online educator training programme in Indonesia AU - Burns, Mary T2 - Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning AB - This case study discusses factors impacting the attrition and persistence rates of 60 Indonesian educators in an online programme in 2010. Course designers developed three variations of a web-based programme – a fully online, hybrid and web-facilitated model – and placed 20 learners, all with similar technology skills, in the three different models. The online cohort experienced a 31% attrition rate while 100% of learners in the hybrid and web-facilitated models completed the programme. Data collection revealed that the greatest factor impacting attrition or persistence was the absence or presence of face-to-face interaction with the instructor and colleagues. This paper outlines programme design elements that learners found most helpful in successfully completing the course. DA - 2013/06// PY - 2013 DO - 10.1080/02680513.2013.851023 DP - DOI.org (Crossref) VL - 28 IS - 2 SP - 141 EP - 152 J2 - Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning LA - en SN - 0268-0513, 1469-9958 ST - Staying or leaving? UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680513.2013.851023 Y2 - 2020/05/22/12:46:02 KW - Indonesia KW - completion KW - online learning KW - persistence KW - readiness ER - TY - BLOG TI - School, interrupted: 4 options for distance education to continue teaching during COVID-19 AU - Burns, Mary T2 - Global Partnership for Education AB - Take a look at the four most common distance technology for contractors, donors and educators who find themselves needing to explore distance-learning options, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 LA - en ST - School, interrupted UR - https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/school-interrupted-4-options-distance-education-continue-teaching-during-covid-19 Y2 - 2020/06/02/13:46:08 ER - TY - JOUR TI - Improving teaching quality in Guinea with interactive radio instruction AU - Burns, Mary AB - Guinea's Sous le Fromager project is an excellent example of radio as an effective delivery system for enhancing teachers’ basic content skills and for helping teachers with little or no instructional skills acquire those skills. DA - 2006/02// PY - 2006 DP - Zotero VL - Working paper IS - 2 SP - 15 LA - en UR - https://www.infodev.org/infodev-files/resource/InfodevDocuments_500.pdf ER - TY - RPRT TI - Technology in Education. Background paper prepared for the 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report AU - Burns, Mary T2 - Global Education Monitoring Report AB - This think piece was commissioned by the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report) Team to provide initial conceptual framing for the 2023 GEM Report, which focuses on information and communications technologies in education, or educational technology. The topics in this think piece were proposed by the GEM Report Team. As much as space permits, the think piece takes both a close up and wide-angle approach to technology.The think piece focuses, as much as possible, on research outlining the educational benefits of technology and organises educational technology along three axes: (1) technology as a learning tool; (2) technology to deliver learning; and (3) technology to support learning, outlining the uses, benefits, challenges, and additional areas for research associated with each. It discusses the technology tools associated with each category and poses additional research questions that the GEM Reporting Team may wish to explore for the Global Education Monitoring Report. DA - 2021/// PY - 2021 PB - UNESCO UR - https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000378951/PDF/378951eng.pdf.multi Y2 - 2022/08/22/18:29:43 ER - TY - RPRT TI - Using Technology to Train Teachers: Appropriate Uses of ICT for Teacher Professional Development in Developing Countries AU - Gaible, Edmond AU - Burns, Mary DA - 2007/01// PY - 2007 PB - World Bank ER - TY - RPRT TI - Information and communications technologies in secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, practices, trends, and recommendations AU - Burns, Mary AU - Santally, Mohammad Issack T2 - Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work DA - 2019/// PY - 2019 SP - 81 PB - Mastercard Foundation UR - https://mastercardfdn.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ICT-in-Secondary-Education.pdf ER -