| Civil Society | Save the Children fights for children's rights. We deliver immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives worldwide. | | 1 | | |
| Civil Society | The Fundación Cisneros and its partners share the idea that education is the key to freedom, democracy and a better quality of life that has to be managed as a common good, a basic service, requiring the commitment of governments and societies for its success. Through the AME program, ICTs are incorporated into educational programs for teachers, producing local contents for Latin American teachers and promoting new networking based on the use of ICT. | | 1 | Cash, and schools provide buildings and computers, although teachers sometimes provide this themselves | For teachers. The training is given via the web-site and educational television series |
| Civil Society | The overall goal of the project is to improve the learning process in rural schools of Colombia
| | 50 | Cash, expertise, computers | Teacher training should be more regular. |
| Civil Society | VAB-NJ conceptualized the CLP as an initiative through CLC which would be established at educational institutions in Bangladesh to acquaint underprivileged youths with the use of computers. D.Net implements this program with the support form the hosting schools. | | 60 | Computers, cash from Bangladeshi expart community in USA (NRB)
| Two teachers are chosen from the school based on a D.Net-administered evaluation, and brought for 9 days training. D.Net allocates resources to troubleshoot technical issues over the phone, and provides the services of a technician who is dispatched to the CLC if necessary. D.Net also provides a monthly honorarium to the CLP teacher(s). |
| Private | The goal of Intel Learn is to help youth, ages 8 to 16, develop 21st century skills, with a focus on digital literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. | | 50 | | |
| Private | The goal of Intel Learn is to help youth, ages 8 to 16, develop 21st century skills, with a focus on digital literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. | | 30 | | |
| Private | The goal of Intel Learn is to help youth, ages 8 to 16, develop 21st century skills, with a focus on digital literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. | | 30 | | |
| Private | The goal of Intel Learn is to help youth, ages 8 to 16, develop 21st century skills, with a focus on digital literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. | | 50 | | |
| Private | The goal of Intel Learn is to help youth, ages 8 to 16, develop 21st century skills, with a focus on digital literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. | | 70 | | |
| Private | The goal of Intel Learn is to help youth, ages 8 to 16, develop 21st century skills, with a focus on digital literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. | | 50 | | |
| Bilateral | The goal of Intel Learn is to help youth, ages 8 to 16, develop 21st century skills, with a focus on digital literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration. | | 30 | Cash, expertise and monitoring & evaluation | |
| Private | Due to the distributed nature of education in Australia, Microsoft has supported a variety of initiatives tailored to the needs and interests of each state and territory
In Queensland, the state education department has partnered with Microsoft since 2004 on programs to explore the efficacy of games in learning, introduce students and teachers to the rapidly emerging field of spatial technologies, and help teachers create educationally rich and engaging digital content.
Programs in other states and territories focus on innovative approaches to teacher professional learning, innovation in curriculum, and systemic issues in pedagogy. | | 50 | Microsoft povides know-how and cash
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| Civil Society | "The fund serves as the basis for financially supporting innovative and new approaches to teaching in the 21st century. "
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| Civil Society | As one way to make students more employable without further burdening an overwhelmed school system, Microsoft partnered with the Ministry of Education to create the Junior Developer Program, which provides middle-school students with the opportunity to learn programming and Web design skills at a young age. | | 80 | Supported by the Partners in Learning and implemented by Cairo-based technology training company Virgitech, the JDP aims to introduce students to Web development and programming skills at a young age. | The JDP consists of three summer courses: the first year focuses in computer fundamentals and basic Web development skills (including HYML, Microsoft FrontPage, and JavaScript); the second-year program introduces software development concepts and techniques using the C# programming language; and the third year introduces advanced topics such as the ASP.NET framework for Web services and applications. |
| Bilateral | A collaboration amongst members of various educational research communities world-wide, the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP), the Education Development Center (EDC) identified broad symposium goals:
1.To deepen our understanding of youth who are Power Users of Technology through symposium activities;
2.To generate questions and a framework for a long-term research agenda to inform educational activities within schools.
3. To build awareness of the emergence of a new culture of Power Users of ICT in countries around the world and their potential impact on education, workforce and economic development in the global knowledge economy. | | 100 | Buildings, activities, help, merchandise, loan of computers, scholarships for participants/attendees | Teams of youth from various countries selected a theme from the UN Millenium Goals that was most relevant to their interests. Used this theme to generate a topic for their research project.
For 2-3 months, after school, researchers and a facilitator worked with teams of youth to research and develop their own solutions to how technology can be used to help solve large scale problems facing our world. At a 4 day syposium in Costa Rica teams refined their solutions in workshops with topic experts in Costa Rica and presented their plans to the public. |
| Multilateral | The Initiatives objectives are to:
Improve the development and delivery of education to Jordans citizens through public-private partnerships, and in the process help the government of Jordan achieve its vision for education as a catalyst for social and economic development
Encourage the development of an efficient public-private model for the acceleration of educational reforms in developing countries based on unleashing the innovation of teachers and students through the effective use of ICT
Build the capacity of the local information technology industry for the development of innovative learning solutions in partnership with world class firms, creating economic value that will lead to mutually beneficial business opportunities
Leverage an environment of national government commitment and corporate citizenship to build a model of reform that can be exported to and replicated in other countries. | | 100 | Cash, infrastructure and expertise | |
| National | High quality skills in ICT and digital media will be fundamental to providing the solid platform for economic growth envisioned in the 'Smart Successful Scotland' strategy. SQA is of the opinion that partnerships with leading ICT and digital media vendors are a vital component in gaining an understanding of industry trends and requirements and in creating in reality the kind of responsive framework at the heart of the Lifelong Learning Strategy.
| | 1 | cash, but also in kind contributions such as staff time. | teachers, lecturers, students |
| Civil Society | The aspiration is that every student has access to the latest, localised ICT resources, and teachers are experts both on desktop and education-specific applications. | n/a | | Microsoft facilitates training events, entertains two web portals | Today, Partners in Learning in Argentina focuses primarely on four key training programs that cover the spectrum of teacher technology skills:
INTENT.AR, a series of regional training events for novices (teachers)
A Peer Coaching program for teachers with intermediate skills
Par@educ.ar, , a more advanced content portal for the most technologically experienced teachers |
| Others | "The overall goals of the CEF are fourfold:
• to strengthen broad-based and democratically-run national education coalitions;
• to channel grassroots voices and experiences into influencing national policy and practice;
• to ensure financing for education is sufficient to make public schools work for all girls and boys; and
• to support evidence-based influencing of policy rooted in innovative work." | n/a | 90 | Cash, but unspecified amount, see sheet 'ProjectFunders' | Teachers, parents, administration |
| Others | "The overall goals of the CEF are fourfold: • to strengthen broad-based and democratically-run national education coalitions; • to channel grassroots voices and experiences into influencing national policy and practice; • to ensure financing for education is sufficient to make public schools work for all girls and boys; and • to support evidence-based influencing of policy rooted in innovative work." | n/a | 80 | cash | Teachers, parents, admin |
| Others | "The overall goals of the CEF are fourfold:
• to strengthen broad-based and democratically-run national education coalitions;
• to channel grassroots voices and experiences into influencing national policy and practice;
• to ensure financing for education is sufficient to make public schools work for all girls and boys; and
• to support evidence-based influencing of policy rooted in innovative work." | n/a | | n/a | Teachers and parents |
| Others | "The overall goals of the CEF are fourfold:
• to strengthen broad-based and democratically-run national education coalitions;
• to channel grassroots voices and experiences into influencing national policy and practice;
• to ensure financing for education is sufficient to make public schools work for all girls and boys; and
• to support evidence-based influencing of policy rooted in innovative work." | n/a | 80 | n/a | Teachers, parents, admin, politicians |
| Others | "The overall goals of the CEF are fourfold:
• to strengthen broad-based and democratically-run national education coalitions;
• to channel grassroots voices and experiences into influencing national policy and practice;
• to ensure financing for education is sufficient to make public schools work for all girls and boys; and
• to support evidence-based influencing of policy rooted in innovative work." | n/a | | n/a | Teachers and parents, local/national government officials |
| Private | To lower the overall cost of primary and secondary education, Eduvision aims to replace physical textbooks, notebooks and stationary items with a single integrated system (EELS) which will follow each student throughout the course of their education. | To develop and test an e-learning platform for schools in developing countries, that lowers the cost of education while increasing the quality in conjunction with OLPC hardware | 100 | The project has been incubated by Eduvision Ltd and GTZ in Addis Ababa. | Teachers were trained in the technology over the course of 2 month, and then were assisted in training students. |
| Private | To lower the overall cost of primary and secondary education, EduVision aims to replace physical textbooks, notebooks and stationary items with a single integrated system (EELS) which will follow each student throughout the course of their education. | To develop and test an e-learning platform for schools in developing countries, that lowers the cost of education while increasing the quality. | 100 | At the end of the 2005 trial in Kenya, Bridgeworks, a Swiss venture capital company incubated to project, and developed a business plan as well help securing seed financing. | Teachers were trained in the technology over the course of a month, and then were assisted in training students. |
| Others | As the flagship project of CICT, eSkwela is envisioned to provide ICT-enhanced educational opportunities for Filipino out-of-school youths (OSY) and adults alike. The project aims to help reduce the digital divide and enhance the capacity of the students to be successful participants in a global and knowledge-based economy. | n/a | | n/a | especially focusing on out of school youth |
| Others | The aspiration is that every student has access to the latest, localised ICT resources, and teachers are experts both on desktop and education-specific applications. | n/a | | Cash | Access to workbook 101 Ideas for Innovative Teachers
Training (in 2006 and 2007) of teachers
a unique web-based learning experience in which students from dozens of schools note which flowers are booming in their hometowns and the use an interactive map to track the new season's progress around the country.
For Projektipaun, Tiger Leap localized the Integrating ICT Skills into Teaching and Learning module of this curriculum, which is built on practical, teacher-tested strategies that help educators develop project-based lessons that encourage teamwork, higher-order thinking, and creativity among students. |
| Civil Society | As a child-oriented and right based organization, the mission of FSCE is to work for the respect of the rights of street children, sexually abused and exploited children, physically abused children, and children in conflict with the law. | n/a | | in kind, infrastructure , equipment and cash | n/a |
| National | Connecting Nambia's Youth to the Information Society | n/a | | The NETSS Centre has been created as a public/private partnership between the MoE and various private sector and civil society partners such as Microsoft and SchoolNet Namibia to provide the sourcing, refurbishment, installation and support of ICTs in all educational institutions in Namibia. It also acts as a distribution hub for ICTs in education and a National helpdesk for technical support. | n/a |
| Private | The aspiration is that every student has access to the latest, localised ICT resources, and teachers are experts both on desktop and education-specific applications. | n/a | | Cash and books | Access to workbook 101 Ideas for Innovative Teachers (in Hungarian and English)
Training of teachers: They began a series of summer training courses that has so far reached more than 4000 teachers in various subjects, covering everything from the pedagogical basis for ICT in the classroom to in-depth courses on the Microsoft Windows Server System, Microsoft Visual Studio, and other advanced topics for technology teachers.
For those who couldn't attend the training, Partners in Learning brought the training to them-transforming a truck into a mobile classroom with 25 workstations and driving it around the country for a month, offering courses to an additional 400 teachers and school administrators.
To ensure that new teachers are exposed to technology and innovative practices early in their careers, Partners in Learning also offers funding and resources to the Multimedia Pedagogy and Education Technology Centers.
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| National | The aspiration is that every student has access to the latest, localised ICT resources, and teachers are experts both on desktop and education-specific applications. | n/a | | Cash | Through 28 academies spread throughout Bulgaria |
| Private | The aspiration is that every student has access to the latest, localised ICT resources, and teachers are experts both on desktop and education-specific applications. | n/a | | Cash and books and Microsoft IT Academy Centres | In 2007, more than 1,000 teacher educators from Maharashtra's universities and colleges will undergo 20 days of training, after which they will lead efforts to create sustainable ICT skills training courses for their schools' pre-service teacher training programs. For this initial group of teacher educators, half of the training will focus on basic ICT skills. The other 10 days will focus on how to integrate technology int pedagogy and on peer coaching skills that are essential to nurturing communities of educators who can share and support one another in using ICT to strengthen their curriculum and enhance academic achievement. |
| Private | To unleash the potential of Information Technology in poverty elevation and human empowerment, supporting underserved communities to achieve sustainable development. | n/a | | AGENT consulting (private sector) is the main partner in the program including program design and management. The program is considered as an initiative of AGENT consulting to create an educational program that is based on youth involvement, partnership development and content creation. AGENT has also invested in the creation of an online platform that enables the youth and schools to register and establish online communities within the framework of the program | n/a |
| National | "Dr Henry Chasia, Executive Deputy Chairperson of the NEPAD e-Africa Commission, “The vision of the NEPAD e-schools, is:
to make all learners in African schools ICT literate by installing ICT equipment in these schools,
connecting the schools to the Internet,
training pre-service and in-service teachers in the use of ICT,
supporting efficiently managed schools by training school administrators in the use of ICT,
contributing to the acquisition and exchange of educational content across our continent,
and equipping each school with a health point to serve as a source of health information as well as undertake specific health interventions as may be required." | n/a | | n/a | n/a |
| Others | Explor@ provides opportunities for children and youth’s integral education as it creates secure learning spaces that take advantage of existing technological resources in the country. | Spanning a four-year period (2006-2010), the project is intended to provide an innovative educational service to benefit approximately 20,000 underprivileged children and youth all over the country. | 50 | Wal-Mart Costa Rica designs and implements the fundraising campaign, called ‘Dulce Ayuda’, to promote awareness in their customers about the importance of contributing to the Explor@ project. Microsoft Costa Rica has contributed to the development of the Explor@ program by donating consulting books to support two of the courses offered: Digital Productivity and Technical Leaders. A group of 216 organizations from private and public institutions, NGOs, local governments, and schools interested in youth welfare also activily participate in the program implementation. For the development of the courses, these organizations provide their technological platform (a computer laboratory with at least four computers and Internet connection), one or more facilitators/teachers with knowledge in technology and experience working with youth in non-formal or extracurricular environments which received training from the Omar Dengo Foundation, and commit to free registration for children and youth at social risk who take part in the program. | The project team coordinates the execution of these six courses with an extensive group of non-profit organizations, local governments, educational centers and public institutions in the country. Explor@ provides training for the facilitators and didactic materials for students. |
| Private | The Intel® Teach Program offers teachers proven professional development. Intel Teach courses promote student-centered approaches and help teachers transform instruction to engage students in deeply relevant ways, including appropriate use of technology for learning, creativity, and communication. Intel Teach is the largest, most successful program of its kind.
| Through participation in the Intel Teach Program, teachers integrate technology more effectively to support 21st Century learning in their classrooms. They learn how to engage their students through project-based approaches; guide their teaching through ongoing assessments; and encourage their students to be creators of knowledge. This research-based program offers practical, meaningful support that has been proven to result in school improvement. Intel Teach:
– Offers high quality, research based teacher professional development. - Focuses on instructional design that supports: effective use of technology; project-based approaches; assessment of 21st century skills; and open-ended questioning which gives teachers practical help in developing 21st century skills in students (critical thinking, collaboration, communication, digital fluency etc.). - Offers just-in-time skill help in multiple software platforms and local languages. - Includes Leadership development (MTs, principals, curriculum specialists and MoE) which creates agents of change in schools. - Generates informal communities of practice around challenging pedagogical topics. - Evaluated for teacher impact/ change. - Designed to scale with fidelity to program to millions of teachers. - Models innovative uses of technology in education. - Meets requirements for continuing education (certification). - Demonstrates Intel’s commitment to education. | | | Intel Teach uses a “train the trainer” model to provide both face-to-face and online instruction to help teachers around the world integrate technology into their classrooms. Teachers create lesson plans that can be immediately implemented and that meet local and national education goals and standards. Working with governments – national, regional or local – worldwide, Intel introduces the program in interested countries and communities, which are selected based on the strength of their commitment to the program. Intel then works with an initial group of teachers to help them become Intel Teach trainers themselves. These trainers in turn are responsible for sharing their new skills with other teachers in their region. |
| Private | The Intel® Teach Program offers teachers proven professional development. Intel Teach courses promote student-centered approaches and help teachers transform instruction to engage students in deeply relevant ways, including appropriate use of technology for learning, creativity, and communication. Intel Teach is the largest, most successful program of its kind. | Through participation in the Intel Teach Program, teachers integrate technology more effectively to support 21st Century learning in their classrooms. They learn how to engage their students through project-based approaches; guide their teaching through ongoing assessments; and encourage their students to be creators of knowledge. This research-based program offers practical, meaningful support that has been proven to result in school improvement. Intel Teach:
– Offers high quality, research based teacher professional development. - Focuses on instructional design that supports: effective use of technology; project-based approaches; assessment of 21st century skills; and open-ended questioning which gives teachers practical help in developing 21st century skills in students (critical thinking, collaboration, communication, digital fluency etc.). - Offers just-in-time skill help in multiple software platforms and local languages. - Includes Leadership development (MTs, principals, curriculum specialists and MoE) which creates agents of change in schools. - Generates informal communities of practice around challenging pedagogical topics. - Evaluated for teacher impact/ change. - Designed to scale with fidelity to program to millions of teachers. - Models innovative uses of technology in education. - Meets requirements for continuing education (certification). - Demonstrates Intel’s commitment to education. | | | Intel Teach uses a “train the trainer” model to provide both face-to-face and online instruction to help teachers around the world integrate technology into their classrooms. Teachers create lesson plans that can be immediately implemented and that meet local and national education goals and standards. Working with governments – national, regional or local – worldwide, Intel introduces the program in interested countries and communities, which are selected based on the strength of their commitment to the program. Intel then works with an initial group of teachers to help them become Intel Teach trainers themselves. These trainers in turn are responsible for sharing their new skills with other teachers in their region. |
| Private | The Intel® Teach Program offers teachers proven professional development. Intel Teach courses promote student-centered approaches and help teachers transform instruction to engage students in deeply relevant ways, including appropriate use of technology for learning, creativity, and communication. Intel Teach is the largest, most successful program of its kind. | Through participation in the Intel Teach Program, teachers integrate technology more effectively to support 21st Century learning in their classrooms. They learn how to engage their students through project-based approaches; guide their teaching through ongoing assessments; and encourage their students to be creators of knowledge. This research-based program offers practical, meaningful support that has been proven to result in school improvement. Intel Teach:
– Offers high quality, research based teacher professional development. - Focuses on instructional design that supports: effective use of technology; project-based approaches; assessment of 21st century skills; and open-ended questioning which gives teachers practical help in developing 21st century skills in students (critical thinking, collaboration, communication, digital fluency etc.). - Offers just-in-time skill help in multiple software platforms and local languages. - Includes Leadership development (MTs, principals, curriculum specialists and MoE) which creates agents of change in schools. - Generates informal communities of practice around challenging pedagogical topics. - Evaluated for teacher impact/ change. - Designed to scale with fidelity to program to millions of teachers. - Models innovative uses of technology in education. - Meets requirements for continuing education (certification). - Demonstrates Intel’s commitment to education.
| | | Intel Teach uses a “train the trainer” model to provide both face-to-face and online instruction to help teachers around the world integrate technology into their classrooms. Teachers create lesson plans that can be immediately implemented and that meet local and national education goals and standards. Working with governments – national, regional or local – worldwide, Intel introduces the program in interested countries and communities, which are selected based on the strength of their commitment to the program. Intel then works with an initial group of teachers to help them become Intel Teach trainers themselves. These trainers in turn are responsible for sharing their new skills with other teachers in their region. |
| Private | The Intel® Teach Program offers teachers proven professional development. Intel Teach courses promote student-centered approaches and help teachers transform instruction to engage students in deeply relevant ways, including appropriate use of technology for learning, creativity, and communication. Intel Teach is the largest, most successful program of its kind. | Through participation in the Intel Teach Program, teachers integrate technology more effectively to support 21st Century learning in their classrooms. They learn how to engage their students through project-based approaches; guide their teaching through ongoing assessments; and encourage their students to be creators of knowledge. This research-based program offers practical, meaningful support that has been proven to result in school improvement. Intel Teach:
– Offers high quality, research based teacher professional development. - Focuses on instructional design that supports: effective use of technology; project-based approaches; assessment of 21st century skills; and open-ended questioning which gives teachers practical help in developing 21st century skills in students (critical thinking, collaboration, communication, digital fluency etc.). - Offers just-in-time skill help in multiple software platforms and local languages. - Includes Leadership development (MTs, principals, curriculum specialists and MoE) which creates agents of change in schools. - Generates informal communities of practice around challenging pedagogical topics. - Evaluated for teacher impact/ change. - Designed to scale with fidelity to program to millions of teachers. - Models innovative uses of technology in education. - Meets requirements for continuing education (certification). - Demonstrates Intel’s commitment to education. | | | Intel Teach uses a “train the trainer” model to provide both face-to-face and online instruction to help teachers around the world integrate technology into their classrooms. Teachers create lesson plans that can be immediately implemented and that meet local and national education goals and standards. Working with governments – national, regional or local – worldwide, Intel introduces the program in interested countries and communities, which are selected based on the strength of their commitment to the program. Intel then works with an initial group of teachers to help them become Intel Teach trainers themselves. These trainers in turn are responsible for sharing their new skills with other teachers in their region. |
| Private | The Intel® Teach Program offers teachers proven professional development. Intel Teach courses promote student-centered approaches and help teachers transform instruction to engage students in deeply relevant ways, including appropriate use of technology for learning, creativity, and communication. Intel Teach is the largest, most successful program of its kind. | Through participation in the Intel Teach Program, teachers integrate technology more effectively to support 21st Century learning in their classrooms. They learn how to engage their students through project-based approaches; guide their teaching through ongoing assessments; and encourage their students to be creators of knowledge. This research-based program offers practical, meaningful support that has been proven to result in school improvement. Intel Teach:
– Offers high quality, research based teacher professional development. - Focuses on instructional design that supports: effective use of technology; project-based approaches; assessment of 21st century skills; and open-ended questioning which gives teachers practical help in developing 21st century skills in students (critical thinking, collaboration, communication, digital fluency etc.). - Offers just-in-time skill help in multiple software platforms and local languages. - Includes Leadership development (MTs, principals, curriculum specialists and MoE) which creates agents of change in schools. - Generates informal communities of practice around challenging pedagogical topics. - Evaluated for teacher i |