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| Education for All in Sri Lanka : ICT4D Hubs for Region-Wide Dissemination of Blended Learning | |
| Mozelius;Peter | |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 学位授予单位 | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, Stockholm : Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University |
| 英文摘要 | ICT4D, here defined as the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in developing regions, can be seen as one of the most powerful and cost efficient ways to improve the standard of living in the developing world. Many regions in Asia have shown a rapid but heterogeneous development where information technology had a drastic impact on development but often with the problems related to ICT4D 1.0: lack of sustainability and lack of scalability. This study analysed the Sri Lankan infrastructure for region-wide dissemination of blended learning in the 21st century based on the exploration of some selected ICT4D hubs and educational initiatives. The overall aim of the research was to observe, describe and analyse how the selected ICT4D initiatives and the creation of ICT4D hubs in Sri Lanka might support region-wide dissemination of blended learning and local development. A longitudinal case study has been the overall approach where a number of embedded thematic units were explored in long-term fieldwork conducted between 2006 and 2012. Data has been collected from a combination of observations, interviews, group discussions, surveys and document analysis. Findings showed that several of the studied ICT4D hubs have contributed to the general development but the country’s internal digital divide has in fact grown, as urban growth has been so much faster than the growth in rural areas, leaving the country with geographic as well as socio-economic gaps. Some of the former war zones have definitely been left behind and there is a need for further support of the Eastern and Northern regions of the island. Sri Lanka has had an outcome that must be classified as better than average compared to other developing regions with increased opportunities for education and with some ICT4D hubs as multipurpose meeting points. Contributing factors to the successful development are the high literacy rate, the chain of ICT4D projects rolled out in the right order and a committed implementation of educational eServices. On the other hand there were other, more negative findings indicating that sustainability, knowledge sharing and inter-project cooperation and coordination have often failed. The identified strength in the Sri Lankan model, which can be recommended for other parts of the world as well, is the way top-down management of infrastructure sometimes is combined with bottom-up grass-root activities. Other recommendations, that also are global, are to extend existing ICT4D hubs and upgrade them to more intelligent, autonomous and multi-service ICT4D routers that could also handle the future need for eServices in the fields of eHealth, eFarming and eGovernance. |
| 英文关键词 | ICT4D ICT4D hubs Digital divide Sri Lanka Blended learning Education for All |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| URL | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-109061 |
| 来源机构 | Stockholms universitet |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/248746 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mozelius;Peter. Education for All in Sri Lanka : ICT4D Hubs for Region-Wide Dissemination of Blended Learning[D]. Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, Stockholm : Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University,2014. |
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