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Private Sector:
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The 2006 International Investment Forum for Private Higher Education in Washington, D.C. in February 2006 is held every two years by the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. For the first time, a special half-day pre-forum event titled "Innovative Schooling" brought together key international representatives from the K-12 sector to share case studies illustrating the improvement of educational outcomes through innovative models of computer-assisted delivery. Excerpts and links from PowerPoint presentations about e-learning projects around the world are presented here.
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Trends in Global Higher Education...the Changing Landscape
The global education market amounts to more than $2.3 trillion, with around 15% in the developing world. The $2.3 billion+ expenditures take account of total public expenditures, but only known current expenditures from the private sector. Although private sector capital expenditures are quite substantial, there are no systems in place for tracking them. The landscape for tertiary and adult education is changing, with more growth in financing from non-state sources. Private sector participation is growing while government regulations are becoming more liberalized... The private higher education market is estimated to be worth more than $350 billion on current expenditures alone—and growing…The continuing ICT revolution is one of six forces of change in higher education that are converging globally to help create 'the perfect storm…' There is a resurgence of the demand from the global IT sector for training in information technologies. Tertiary distance education makes up 15% of all higher education students.
Of the largest distance education institutions in the world, seven are located in developing countries and all use IT to assist delivery in some of their programs. In 2000, Asia had 3.5 million distance learning students. In Russia, 30% of all tertiary courses are distance. Latin America and Caribbean countries have over 1 million tertiary distance education students, mainly in Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico. The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities has 18 members in 14 countries reaching more than 900,000 students. British Open University has more than 210,000 students and also delivers online education programs to developing countries. In Australia, more than 50% of foreign students enrolled on Australian campuses from Singapore and Hong Kong are distance.
The U.S. remains the biggest adopter of online education, with more than 2.6 million students. .. An estimated 1 million students in China are now online through Internet and satellite, with 68 universities approved by the Ministry of Education in 2004. There are still few champions (of online education) in developing countries due to regulatory problems, Internet access, affordability and frequently faculty resistance…The use of online delivery in corporate training is overtaking higher education usage in developing countries, where major growth is predicted in developing countries to become an estimated $150 billion industry by 2025. This growth is driven significantly by U.S companies.
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India: Manipal Network: Successful ICT Assisted Learning Models
In developing economies, there is a clear shift in moving toward the goal post beyond literacy to education to lifelong learning…
A shift from the ‘What’ to the ‘How’ of learning: segmented and singular to holistic and integrated, silos to matrix, linear to web…Regulated versus distributed frameworks: institutional markets and vocational training or emerging as significant markets…Learning driven by strategic needs of nations,
companies and individuals: lifelong learning is the new mantra… At a second level, there is greater ability to pay as learner profiles change…
Education is clearly an area that will see greater competition as markets grow.
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China: Delivering Nursing Degrees, Vocational Programs & Continuing Medical Education by Satellite
China has become a world focus in terms of its economic transformation and economic growth. But with this extraordinary growth comes other challenges.
The faster China grows, a growing imbalance is occurring, particularly in the fields of education and health … The cost of satellite distance education in China is less than 5% of the campus-based education… The most serious problem for Chinese medical education is not financing, but resources..
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Nigeria: IFC Supports Expansion of Information and Communication Technologies to Nigeria's Universities
SocketWorks is happy to develop our relationship with IFC. In addition to the funding, which will assist in the rollout of vitally needed information technology to Nigerian universities, we value the financial and non-financial support that IFC has provided us and which we expect will continue in the future.
Dr. Aloy Chife, President and CEO of SocketWorks
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New Zealand: TKI Online Learning Centre
The native Maori people of New Zealand did not have a word in the Maori vocabulary for the 'Internet.' As flax-woven 'kits' (or baskets) are an integral part of Maori life in New Zealand, the Maori named their on-line learning center for New Zealand's schools, "Te Kete Ipurangi', which translates to mean 'The Baskets of Knowledge in the Sky'. Te Kete Ipurangi's vision is to provide New Zealand schools with a cost effective electronic platform to communicate curriculum and administrative materials, enhance teaching and learning, raise student achievement and advance professional development for school management and teaching staff… (Our goal is) ...not just content collection but a process to ensure "no teacher left alone"
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Mexico: Lessons Learned on Delivering Successful On-line National and Cross Border Education
Community Learning Center concept (uses) … Monterrey Tech undergraduate students as tutors…
(aimed at) remote and dispersed communities.. (offers) high-speed Internet and a learning management system … (and ) faculty participation
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Turkey: YUCE: Innovative Schooling
YUCE has run reputable private K12 Schools with 1500 students since 1988 in Ankara Turkey. Since 2000, it has operated the biggest IT training center chain in Turkey and has developed and distributed the only web-based school management software in Turkey.(OkulNET) It also operates a Testing And Assessment System (SinavNET) and Personalized Ontological Learning Environment (POLE).
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 Almost 300 people answered the Development Gateway member survey about uses of online education as a development tool. Read their responses.
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Bob Moon, Open University and Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)
Susan D'Antoni, Virtual Institute of the Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)
Stewart Marshall, Distance Education Centre at the University of the West Indies, Barbados
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- March 27-31: Innovating e-Learning 2006: Transforming Learning Experiences
- March 27-29 2006 International Conference on Distance Education, Oman
- April 24-30: Global Campaign for Education Global Action Week
- April 24-30: Education International GWA
- April 25-28: Digital Learning Asia 2006, Bangkok, Thailand
- May 24-26 1st International Conference on ICT for Development, Education & Training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- June 14-17: European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) Conference, Vienna, Austria
- ICEL 2006: The International Conference on e-Learning, Montreal, Quebec
- July 3-7: iEARN World Conference and Youth Summit, Netherlands
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