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Sunday, March 06, 2005
ICT - As you like it - John Rose, Hindu Business Line
One of the most evident successes in higher education is through Web-based teaching. Many universities are using this to provide high-quality education, either entirely virtually or in combination with face-to-face teaching, either on the Internet or through local campus intranets. One of the most useful applications has been in teacher education, including improving teachers' ICT competence, where a large, dispersed target group must be supported in improving their skills throughout their careers. Professional and technical challenges include how to interest and train the teachers, and how to allocate the necessary resources for equipment and infrastructure. Others, more importantly, concern policy. Some universities, particularly in industrialised countries, have seen ICT-based teaching as a cash cow instead of a way to provide better education. So how does one decide to accredit virtual universities, including those based in other countries or regions, and to avoid potentially damaging competition between them and national education systems?
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