Presentation on ICT for Education – Successful Integration with Open Education Resources OERs. Looks at what is necessary and should be in place for ICT Integration to be successful in the education system.

1. "ICT for Education-Successful
Integration with OER"
By
Jacqueline Peters-Richardson

2. Introduction
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Governments and Education Institutions
make huge investments in ICT Tools and
Infrastructure.
This investment is to improve the quality
of teaching and learning.
ICT Integration has created some
challenges.

3. Overview
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What is ICT for Education
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Why ICT Integration is important
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Challenges of ICT Integration
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What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)
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Benefits of OERs
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Phases of Integration
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What is required for a successful ICT
Integration
How can OERs assist with ICT Integration

4. What is ICT for Education?
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It is a diverse set of technological tools and
resources used to communicate, and to
create, disseminate, store, and manage
information
Technology that is used to enhance
learning

5. Why is ICT Integration Important
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help students acquire the skills they need
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deepens and enhances the learning process
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countless resources in the online world
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changes the way teachers teach
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teachers grow into roles of adviser, content
expert, and coach
helps make teaching and learning more
meaningful and fun
Shaping Tech for the Classroom
21st-century schools need 21st-century technology.
MARC PRENSKY

6. Challenges of ICT Integration
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educational policy and planning
infrastructure
language and content
capacity building
financing

7. What are Open Education
Resources
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are freely accessible, openly licensed documents
and media that are useful for
teaching, learning, educational, assessment and
research purposes
open education resources also draws upon open
technologies

8. Benefits of OER
Governments Perspective
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Advancing knowledge by unlocking information for
the benefit of all
Widening participation in higher education by
expanding access to non-traditional learners
Promoting lifelong learning
Bridging the gap between formal, informal and nonformal and reuse between institutions
Leveraging taxpayers’ money by sharing and reuse
between institutions

9. Institutional Perspective
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Sharing and collaborating among institutions and
countries
The public image of the institution may be enhanced &
new students attracted
Improving recruitment by helping the right students
find the right programmes
Provides a resource for students & faculty that
supports learning and collaboration
Attracting alumni as life-long learners

10. Educators Perspective
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Personal gain through increased reputation
Fostering connections with colleagues around the
world
Preserving a record of teaching innovations
allowing others to build upon them

11. Learners Perspective
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An independent learner who has access to the
Internet can access material from some of the best
universities in the world
Promote informal learning where credential is not
needed
Prospective learners may access institutions by
looking at their materials made available by other
institutions

12. Phases of Integration
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Emerging - a school in the beginning stages of ICT
development
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administrators and educators are just starting to
explore the possibilities and consequences of using
ICTs for school management and the curriculum
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Learners’ access to technology is through individual
educators
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some computer literacy lessons or courses, focusing
on learning about ICT e.g. word processor courses

13. Applying - describes the school in which new
understandings of the contributions of ICTs to
learning have developed
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administrators and educators use ICTs for tasks
already carried out in school management and in
the curriculum
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educators’ lectures may be supplemented with ICT
use, such as presentation programs and wordprocessed handouts
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the emphasis is on educators teaching about the
computer and not learners learning with the
computer

14. Integrating - describes a school that now has a range of
technologies both in laboratories, classrooms and
administrative offices
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staff explores new ways in which ICTs change their
personal productivity and professional practice
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The curriculum begins to merge subject areas to
reflect real-world applications
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Learners’ access to technology enables them to
choose projects and ICT tools to learn and
demonstrate their knowledge across
learning/subject areas

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Learners have more choices with regard to learning
styles and pathways
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Staff development and support in the integration of
ICT continues throughout this stage.

16. Transforming - a school that has used ICTs creatively
to rethink and renew school organization
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The focus of the curriculum is now learner-centered
and integrates subject/learning areas in real-world
applications
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Learners’ access to technology is broad and
unrestricted

17. What is required for successful
Integration
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ICT SWOT Analysis
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ICT Vision
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ICT Policy
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Plan of Action

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Implementation
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Training
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Monitoring and Support
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Evaluation
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Revision

19. How can OER assist with the
Transformation
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Assistance in creating policy
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ICT Development Cycle
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Provide resource materials
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Reduce Integration cost
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Sharing of best practices
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Provide training of teachers and administrators
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Commonwealth of Learning
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INTEL

20. Conclusion
There are many OERs available that can offer
guidance and support in making the transformation
to ICT enhance teaching and learning Environment.
New Directions of ICT-Use in Education
Guidelines for open educational resources (OER) in higher
education