Initiating and Managing SchoolNets

Initiating and Managing SchoolNets (ICT Lessons Learned Series Volume III).

Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok, 2007, 70 p.
ISBN 92-9223-111-1

This volume provides an overall summary of the lessons learned during the implementation of the UNESCO SchoolNet project, “Strengthening the Use of ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in the ASEAN Context”. It is the third volume in the ICT in Education Lessons Learned series. The UNESCO SchoolNet project succeeded in initiating new national SchoolNets, or strengthening existing SchoolNets, in eight member-countries of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN): Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. The project also implemented innovative methods of using information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools and provided various types of training for teachers in the participating schools.

Contents

What is a SchoolNet?
Why set up SchoolNets?
The UNESCO SchoolNet project
Examples of SchoolNets
What makes a SchoolNet successful and sustainable?
Initiating and managing a SchoolNet
Summary of Lessons Learned

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