PRESENTATION AT THE GeSCI WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH IN ICT EDUCATION & - - PDF document

PRESENTATION AT THE GeSCI WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH IN ICT EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT: e-LEARNING AFRICA, 26TH MAY 2010, MULUNGUSHI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER, LUSAKA, ZAMBIA

By Christopher Mwangi Gakuu, PhD, University of Nairobi

Objective No. I: To share original work, models and insights about ICT in Education Research across Africa.

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Objective No.3:Explore parameters for GeSCI-panaf research partnership collaboration to inform and shape policy and to contribute to the international literature.

• What should be the focus of research particularly in the south?
• Learning?
• Teachers?
• Models/ Strategies?
• Assessment?
• Schools?
• Socials issues?
• policy?

Or Blendend approach? What determines the focus?

• What about documentation of the finding and particulary form

the south?

• The North should deliberately provide avenue and for a for

the Southern Voices

• Research time horizon
• longtudinal or
• cross-sectional?
• Research Approach?
• Quantitative
• Qualitative or
• Mixed mode?
• Scope?

• Local
• Regional
• International or
• Global?