strategy
Developing electronic interactive learning
Synonyms:
Extending training using the Internet Implementation:
Sponsored by the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, the World Links for Development (WorLD) programme links students and teachers in secondary schools in developing countries with students and teachers in industrialized countries for collaborative research, teaching and learning programmes via the Internet.
Internet operation Netdays was organized throughout the European Union annually since 1997, enabling participants to devise original projects, communicate between them and make them known internationally. More than 35,000 organizations, including schools, vocational training centres, cultural organizations and children's hospitals took part in 1998.
Narrower:
Using computers in educationConnecting schools to internetDeveloping new distance educationAdvancing learning using satellite communications Facilitates:
Developing through collaboration Facilitated by:
Networking studentsPromoting interactive networkingDeveloping telecommunications convergence technologies Organizations:
International Institute of Communications World Bank Institute International Interactive Communications Society International Telecomputing Consortium Global SchoolNet Foundation References:
Hamilton, Bonnie J: Webliography: A resource list for the internet as an educational tool Subjects:
Development → Development Education → Education
Education → Training
Research, Standards → Research
→ Networks
Technology → Electronics
Transportation, Telecommunications → Internet
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
