Workshop On ICT Survey At SEAMEO VOCTECH

Bandar Seri Begawan - SEAMEO VOCTECH yesterday officiated a two-day workshop on ICT survey entitled "ICT Integration in Education: Policies and Practices in Southeast Asia."

Present to deliver a speech during the opening was the Director of SEAMEO VOCTECH Regional Centre, Mohamad bin Abu Bakar.

He said, "The purpose of enriching your ICT knowledge and experiences will be essential to your research and data gathering on ICT about your own country. The knowledge will be a vantage point for you and thus the challenge posed to ICT leaders is now yours as researchers, the vanguard of the field."

The goals of the workshop are to orient and familiarise the participants on project background and blueprint, develop survey instruments and guidelines, and also to define roles and responsibilities of the project researchers.

Further objectives include discussing the concept and components of "ICT Integration in Education: Policies and Practices in Southeast Asia", identifying areas of study to supplement or expand the studies already conducted by UNESCO in Bangkok, developing a research design appropriate for studying the identified areas, developing interview and FGDs guideline on policies and practices at the national level.

Also among the objectives are developing case studies on practices at the school level and describe the roles and responsibilities of each country researcher.

Participants attending the workshop include key officials at the Ministry of Education's ICT departments with backgrounds in research. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

Click Here To Have Your Say On This Story

Brudirect.com News

Brunei's Fastest Growing Website with