Internet boosts education sector
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[September 16, 2007]

Internet boosts education sector

(Manila Standard Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) OVER 13 million students in 37,794 public elementary and secondary schools will benefit from the education department's Cyber Education Program starting next year up to 2010, an official said yesterday.



The program would enhance students' knowledge and competence and improve teachers' skills through the use of the Internet, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus told a recent meeting of the Foundation for the Upgrading the Standard of Education.

The program provides the quickest and most cost-effective way of delivering the same high-quality education to all learners throughout the country, Lapus said.



He said the program was already being used in Mexico, India, Thailand, Korea, Indonesia and China because of its efficiency and affordability, adding it would allow the government to save up to P60.3 billion and provide the education sector with new possibilities.

The project will use satellite or Internet technology to deliver, on demand, additional or complementary lessons or learning materials to classrooms.

Officials say the project will benefit even the most remote public elementary and high schools served by electricity, and will allow students in the far-flung provinces to keep pace with their counterparts in the cities.

Foundation president and Sorsogon Rep. Salvador Escudero III agrees, saying about 90 percent of all villages in the Philippines are now energized.

Satellite video delivery or satellite TV with two-way Internet capability is a mature and proven technology used for distance education, Lapus said.

He said the technology was user-friendly and could be easily understood by elementary pupils and high school students.

Tens of thousands of public school teachers were already IT-literate and could help facilitate the introduction of the new technology in schools, Lapus said.

Those not IT-literate had nothing to worry about because the technology had been designed so that even people not familiar with computers could learn to use it quickly, he said. Florante Solmerin

Copyright 2007 Kamahalan Publishing Corp. , Source: The Financial Times Limited

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