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Technology in education: a case study on Thailand
This report examines Thailand’s educational challenges related to technology-enabled learning, including internet access, resource quality, and teacher competency. It emphasizes regional disparities, the need for equitable policies, child online protection, and declining education investment. Positive initiatives involve private sector collaboration and targeted programs for disadvantaged students, aiming to enhance educational quality.
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E-learning in Thailand: Mapping the digital divide
This study evaluates digital access among Thai students during the pandemic, revealing disparities in device availability and internet connectivity, particularly influenced by socioeconomic status. It emphasizes the need for improved data collection, equitable device distribution, and enhanced internet affordability to foster effective eLearning opportunities, ultimately recommending measures to bridge the digital divide.
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Students from the global south embrace open online courses
In conversation with Matt McGarrity, Senior Lecturer in the Communication Department at the University of Washington, whose Intro to Public Speaking course is one of the most popular MOOC’s. (Photo by Ranak Martin) Think of all of the stress you might suffer applying to get into an Ivy League school — and all the money you’d spend to…
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Surfing in the dark: Nepal’s need for economic reforms
More than a year has passed since I visited Princeton University in October 2012. I was there to participate in a panel discussion organized by the university. I was among the 40,000 students around the world who had been taking the online ‘Sociology’ course on Coursera and I had been chosen to visit the university and…
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Lessons from Lanka
Dial 1919 from a telephone in Sri Lanka and you can get information on 77 different government bodies in three major languages of the country—Sinhala, Tamil, and English. In Sri Lanka, a range of ICT facilities have been introduced to strengthen information management in governance, education, healthcare, industry, agriculture, fisheries, social security and judicial systems,…
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