Browsing by Author "Rodriguez, Patricio"

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    A Monitoring and Evaluation Scheme for an ICT-Supported Education Program in Schools
    (NATL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIV, TAIWAN, 2010) Rodriguez, Patricio; Nussbaum, Miguel; Lopez, Ximena; Sepulveda, Marcos
    More than 20 years after ICTs were introduced in schools, solid evidence of their impact on student attainment is still lacking. Reasons for this include the mismatch between the methods used to measure the effects and the type of learning promoted, the absence of information regarding the specific types of ICT used, and the scarce attention paid to the monitoring and evaluation of ICT for Education (ICT4E) programs. A monitoring and evaluation scheme would provide qualitative and quantitative data to refine, adjust and improve an ICT4E project, to learn from the experience gained, and to determine whether the program has served its client communities and how it might be replicated.
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    ICT for education: a conceptual framework for the sustainable adoption of technology-enhanced learning environments in schools
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2012) Rodriguez, Patricio; Nussbaum, Miguel; Dombrovskaia, Lioubov
    Currently, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education does not conclusively demonstrate significant effects on learning. However, not all ICT usage models are designed to affect student outcomes. Therefore, to accurately study the impact of ICT, the concept of an educational programme supported by ICT must first be defined. The authors propose the ICT for Education (ICT4E) programme, an evidence-based framework to determine a model's ability to produce improvements before having to evaluate its results. The framework has four components: implementation, intervention, transference and total cost. Based on an explicit definition of the outcomes pursued by a given programme, this framework supports the design of its activities to promote sustainable changes in pedagogical practices in schools and calculate the programme's total cost. The authors illustrate this with a programme implemented in six countries. In Chile, the ICT4E programme forms part of the policy for educational technology, evaluating the effectiveness and scalability of such initiatives.