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E-learning Intervention for Stem Education: Developing Country Case Study

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Learning Technology for Education in Cloud (LTEC 2015)

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This paper reports an innovative and systemic approach to implementing ICT intervention to support enhancement of teaching and learning of STEM subjects in developing countries. The need for adopting ICT was 2 fold: a lack of availability of qualified STEM secondary teachers and a lack of quality teaching and learning resources to assist teachers and students. ICT was seen as being able to impact on both issues. The intervention involved developing sustainable network design including equipment choices, providing high quality e-learning resources and human resource development including teacher training. The intervention has gradually been accepted by teachers, students, and parents and institutionalized as a key feature of the secondary STEM education in the case study country.

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    E-learning resources are now replacing textbooks and other commonly used supplementary teaching and learning materials. Publishing companies and other private sector ICT content development companies are now involved in developing high quality e-learning resources organized as a repository indexed to the secondary school curriculum. They contain general instruction on respective topics, simulations, experiment and interactive activities, quizzes etc. These e-learning materials can be used as teacher facilitated activities, self-learning, group and peer learning etc., and the design is underpinned by new teaching learning processes such as visualization, simulation, interactive, repetition and practice, self-directed.

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    http://www.litespeed.com.sg/2_products/prod_cw_secondary.html; http://yteach.com/.

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    Since commercial e-resource repositories are governed by intellectual property rights procuring the rights to host it on the WWW means you will be making it accessible to everyone in the world. This undermines the commercial company’s ability to sell the repository to others, which means the right to do so can be very expensive. Internet based access. However, if you upload on to local servers and make it available to student and teachers it will be much cheaper.

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  1. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Hitendra Pillay

  2. Education Consultant, Apia, Samoa

    Werner Kappus

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  1. Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

    Lorna Uden

  2. Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile

    Dario Liberona

  3. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Tatjana Welzer

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Pillay, H., Kappus, W. (2015). E-learning Intervention for Stem Education: Developing Country Case Study. In: Uden, L., Liberona, D., Welzer, T. (eds) Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. LTEC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 533. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22629-3_21

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