Enabling and constraining ICT practice in secondary schools: case studies in South Africa
- Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl, Siebörger, Ingrid, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Authors: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl , Siebörger, Ingrid , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428923 , vital:72546 , https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1504/IJKL.2007.015551
- Description: The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education is being seen as a way of widening access to education, particularly in developing countries. This paper addresses the issue of ICT implemen-tation in secondary schools and focuses specifically on the practices that enable or constrain the successful implementation of ICT for teach-ing and learning activities. It reflects upon the lessons learned from a collective case study undertaken in 12 of the 13 secondary schools in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. School principals and designated IT teachers were interviewed and on-site infrastructure audits conducted. This paper identifies a number of key enabling and constraining factors surrounding practical issues, including sufficient hardware, appropriate software and affordable connectivity, sufficient technical support and training, policy-related issues such as the role of national, provincial and school policy, the vital contribution of principal leadership and champion teachers as well as ongoing teacher profes-sional development coupled with a willingness to change.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl , Siebörger, Ingrid , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428923 , vital:72546 , https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1504/IJKL.2007.015551
- Description: The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in education is being seen as a way of widening access to education, particularly in developing countries. This paper addresses the issue of ICT implemen-tation in secondary schools and focuses specifically on the practices that enable or constrain the successful implementation of ICT for teach-ing and learning activities. It reflects upon the lessons learned from a collective case study undertaken in 12 of the 13 secondary schools in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape in South Africa. School principals and designated IT teachers were interviewed and on-site infrastructure audits conducted. This paper identifies a number of key enabling and constraining factors surrounding practical issues, including sufficient hardware, appropriate software and affordable connectivity, sufficient technical support and training, policy-related issues such as the role of national, provincial and school policy, the vital contribution of principal leadership and champion teachers as well as ongoing teacher profes-sional development coupled with a willingness to change.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Field testing the Alvarion BreezeMAX as a last mile access technology
- Siebörger, Ingrid, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Authors: Siebörger, Ingrid , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428520 , vital:72517 , https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ingrid-Sieboerger/publication/255048217_Field_testing_the_Alvarion_BreezeMAX_as_a_last_mile_access_technology/links/53ff2f290cf21edafd15bfad/Field-testing-the-Alvarion-BreezeMAX-as-a-last-mile-access-technology.pdf
- Description: With an alarmingly low teledensity of approximately 12% in South Afri-ca, and not much hope of further wired infrastructure at the local loop level–as the costs incurred are high compared to potential revenue–wireless connectivity could be a great asset and service in South Africa. This paper looks at how WiMAX technologies, and specifically the Al-varion BreezeMAX, could be used in providing much needed telecom-munications infrastructure to both rural and urban areas in South Africa, providing broadband data throughput rates together with excellent net-work reliability and low latency.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Siebörger, Ingrid , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428520 , vital:72517 , https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ingrid-Sieboerger/publication/255048217_Field_testing_the_Alvarion_BreezeMAX_as_a_last_mile_access_technology/links/53ff2f290cf21edafd15bfad/Field-testing-the-Alvarion-BreezeMAX-as-a-last-mile-access-technology.pdf
- Description: With an alarmingly low teledensity of approximately 12% in South Afri-ca, and not much hope of further wired infrastructure at the local loop level–as the costs incurred are high compared to potential revenue–wireless connectivity could be a great asset and service in South Africa. This paper looks at how WiMAX technologies, and specifically the Al-varion BreezeMAX, could be used in providing much needed telecom-munications infrastructure to both rural and urban areas in South Africa, providing broadband data throughput rates together with excellent net-work reliability and low latency.
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- Date Issued: 2007
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