What We Do
Knowledge Enterprise, LLC
provides advice, assistance, and knowledge pathways in
the following areas:
1. Strategic Education
Development
2. Technologies for Education and Learning
3. Capacity Building
4. Analytical Resources and Tools
1. Strategic
Education Development
 Countries and institutions face daunting challenges as they plan
for, develop, and maintain their educational systems. Some of these
challenges are: fulfilling the goals of Education for All, meeting
the escalating demands for all levels of education, planning for
unpredictable economies and labor markets, restructuring the curriculum
in light of the ever expanding body of information and increase
need for knowledge for everyday living, preparing youth for the
workplace, providing for lifelong learning, and dealing with the
emergence of alterative modes of delivery – all within limited
human, institutional and financial resources.
These and other dramatic challenges pose serious questions for education
and training planning and force a rethinking in the way education
is perceived and managed and in the priorities, scale, size and
speed of education development. Business as usual, ad hoc incremental
approaches, wish-list plans and incommensurate funding, will certainly
not suffice.
Achieving educational goals within a desired time
frame requires:
- Diagnosis of the needs, bottlenecks and capacities;
- Sustained political and technical commitment to face the issues
and make the hard decisions;
- Formulation of a dynamic strategy to get the country from where
it is now to where it should be;
- Executing an efficient and effective implementation program.
HOW KNOWLEDGE ENTERPRISE CAN HELP
Knowledge Enterprise can provide advice and assistance
in:
• Formation of high-quality
human and institutional capacity for policy analysis, planning,
governance, management and implementation.
• Strategic planning for education, including educational
structure and curriculum content, to cope with the global,
national, and local challenges.
• Design of imaginative, innovative and sustainable
systems of education and learning.
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2. Technologies for Education
and Learning
 Almost
every decision maker in every school system is under tremendous
pressure to provide every classroom (if not every student) with
technologies, including computers and their accessories and connectivity
to the Internet.
The question that many decision makers are asking is: If technologies
have the potential to significantly improve the teaching/learning
process and revolutionize the education enterprise, in the same
manner in which they revolutionized business and entertainment,
why haven’t we experienced such drastic effects consistently?
If technologies are the solution they claim to be, then where is
the problem?
Technology is only a tool: no technology can fix a bad educational
philosophy or compensate for bad practice. In fact, if we are going
in the wrong direction, technology will get us there faster. Providing
schools with hardware and software does not automatically reform
teaching and improve learning. Much depends on educational practices
and how ICTs are used to enhance them.
Effectively integrating technology into educational systems involves
a rigorous analysis of educational objectives and changes, a realistic
understanding of the potential of technologies, a purposeful consideration
of the pre- and co-requisites of effectiveness of ICTs for education,
and the prospects of this process within the dynamics of educational
change and reform.
HOW
KNOWLEDGE ENTERPRISE CAN HELP
Knowledge Enterprise can provide advice
and assistance in:
• Reorientation of education structure
• Design of educational programs that incorporate
information and communication technologies (ICTs) to meet
any or all of the following objectives:
o Expanding of educational opportunities
o Increasing efficiency
o Enhancing quality of learning
o Enriching quality of teaching
o Facilitating Skill Formulation
o Sustaining Lifelong Learning
o Improving policy planning and management
o Advancing Community Linkages
• Identification and application of
appropriate technologies
• Design and development of ICT-enhanced content
• Design of programs of professional development of
educators to implement projects involving learning technologies
• Design of monitoring and evaluation schemes
• Application of the ICT-in-Education
Toolkit, including training and assistance in using
the Toolkit for program formulation, planning, and evaluation.
Knowledge Enterprise has special expertise
and experience in the use of ICTs for science and mathematics
education.
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3. Capacity Building
 We
at Knowledge Enterprise believe that educational development programs
and innovations, to be effective and sustainable, should not be
imported or transplanted. They should be the product of local analysis,
design, planning and implementation.
The worst that could happen, though, is for each country to proceed
in isolation by reinventing the wheel and failing to learn from
the experiences (and mistakes) of others. It is essential therefore for decision makers, planners, and practitioners
to be well aware of the wealth of worldwide knowledge, research,
experience, and thinking. This awareness should not lead to transplantation
of ideas and experiences but, rather, should enlighten, guide, and
inspire locally conceived and implemented decisions and plans.
HOW
KNOWLEDGE ENTERPRISE CAN HELP
Knowledge Enterprise can provide advice
and assistance in:
• Training of decision makers and planners
in strategic planning, program design, risk analysis, implementation
strategies and techniques, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Institutional organization that best facilitates planning,
consultation, feedback, program maintenance, and efficient
and effective management.
• Making available analytical resources and tools developed
by Knowledge Enterprise and providing the necessary training
for their application.
• Technical support.
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 4. Analytical
Resources and Tools
The process of planning for educational development and program
design can be arbitrary, ad hoc and disjointed -- leading to ineffective,
unsustainable and wasteful investments. On the other hand, a comprehensive set of analytical, diagnostic
and planning tools can force a certain discipline on the process. Moreover, analytical reviews and syntheses of international thinking,
research and experience inform, enlighten, and enrich the process
of policy making and planning.
HOW KNOWLEDGE
ENTERPRISE CAN HELP
Knowledge Enterprise provides:
• Review and synthesis of international
research and experiences and latest developments in technologies
and their potential for education – and translation of
these findings into sourcebooks, reference materials and publications.
• Development and production of interactive analytical, diagnostic
and planning tools and instruments.
• Development of derivatives of the ICT-in-Education
Toolkit to fit the needs of countries, institutions, and
development agencies
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