Portfolio Highlights

ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE

Provided advice, assistance, and training to high-level decision makers, planners and specialists in Ministries of Education of the following countries:

• Argentina
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Peru
• Venezuela

Provided advice and assistance to public or private institutions in:

• Jordan
• Kuwait
• Lebanon

Carried out assignments with:

• Academy for Educational Development
• Gulf Cooperation Council
• Inter-American Development Bank
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  • Bangkok Office
  • Education Sector – Paris Headquarters
  • Office of the Director-General - Paris Headquarters
  • Science Sector - Paris Headquarters
• World Bank
  • Africa Regional Office
  • infoDev
  • Education Department

ANALYTICAL RESEARCH AND POLICY WORK

Knowledge Enterprise has been deeply involved in analyzing and synthesizing research, policy and practice in the area of integration of ICTs for education. Below are the major products:

TechKnowLogia

TechknowLogia is an international online journal of technologies for the advancement of knowledge and learning. The Journal was published from 1999 to 2003 and had about 20,000 individual and institutional subscribers. A Full archive is available online.

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Technologies for Education: Potential, Parameters and Prospects (2002)

Prepared by Knowledge Enterprise, edited by Wadi D. Haddad and Alexandra Draxler, and published by UNESCO, Paris & Academy for Educational Development, Washington, D.C.

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ICT- IN-EDUCATION POLICY-MAKING AND PLANNING

Developed an ICT-in-Education Toolkit that provides education policy makers, planners and practitioners with a set of tools to assist them in the process of harnessing the potential of ICTs to meet educational goals and targets efficiently and effectively.

The Toolkit contains six toolboxes - containing a total of 19 tools - that cover the following areas:

• Mapping the present situation in terms of national goals, educational context, ICTs in education, and the dynamics of change
• Identification of educational areas for ICT intervention and formulation of corresponding ICT-in-education policies
• Planning for implementation of infrastructure, hardware, teaching/learning materials, and personnel training
• Planning for ICT-enhanced content
• Consolidating implementation plans and their financial and managerial implications into one master plan
• Assessment of implementation, effectiveness and impact of ICT interventions and subsequent adjustments and follow-up actions

The Toolkit was developed in partnership with UNESCO, World Bank (infoDev) and AED. Wadi D. Haddad is the architect and principal author. Sonjara provided technological architecture and software development.

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Conducted training workshops for the use of the ICT-in-Education Toolkit for policy makers and planners in:

• Pacific Islands
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Thailand

Developed materials for and conducted seminars on strategic planning for integration of technologies into education for:

• Ministers of Education in the Arab States
• Ministers of Education in the South Pacific Islands
• Project officers at the World Bank
• Policy makers in Argentina

DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

Designed and supervised a multi-country project in Latin America, the International Virtual Education Network (IVEN) for the Enhancement of Science and Mathematics Learning. The project was financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and executed by Knowledge Enterprise. It was launched in 1999 and is presently being implemented. The backbone of the project is the development of online multimedia modules for the whole science and math program for the last two years of secondary schools by local multidisciplinary teams trained by Knowledge Enterprise. It involved: the setting of learning standards, translation of standards into teaching/learning activities, production and testing of multimedia curricular materials, staff training, development of an online distribution system, application of modules in pilot schools, learning achievement assessment, and program evaluation.

For information on Peru’s product see: http://ciencias.huascaran.edu.pe