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A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving … educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational … outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary contexts in which technology may be used for educational purposes: i) classroom …
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We present evidence on the impact on students' math and reading scores of one of the largest deployments of an OLPC program and the only one implemented at a national scale: Plan Ceibal in Uruguay. We have unique data that allow us to know the exact date of laptop delivery for every student in...
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part of the “corporatizing” of higher education and the “neoliberal” restructuring of work in late capitalism …
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promoting safety in the health care sectors. Five major domains are identified: leadership, technology, process, education … that affect the implementation of BCMA and how technology plays a role in helping to reduce or prevent human errors by …, quality and safety. Leadership was found to be the most important factor oppositely of technology was the least important. …
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Development and progress mainly depends on education and its solid dissemination. Technologies as well as engineering … business solutions. Therefore, education and knowledge dissemination play an important and valuable role. In many developing … Sciences and Technology are rapidly emerging worldwide. Among the emerging and popular areas, a few include Cloud Computing …
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The evidence illustrating enhancement in student learning through information technology (IT) is still questioned in … many disciplines, yet education institutions world over are adopting IT with a hope of enhancing the learning effectiveness …
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offered to improve technology integration in higher education. …
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communications technology (ICT) can support training in conflict resolution in Colombian public education. To address the use of …Education in today's society has meant that new challenges arise, including training on coexistence and a culture of … technology for training in conflict resolution in this experience, the authors took into account the following categories of …
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There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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This paper analyzes the effects of increased shared computer access in secondary schools in Peru. Administrative data are used to identify, through propensity-score matching, two groups of schools with similar observable educational inputs but different intensity in computer access. Extensive...
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