Goals and Mission
My mission is to apply my extensive experience and the findings from my own research and that of others to support the creation of policies and programs that increase the impact that ICT can have on educational reform, social improvement, and economic development. I am particularly interested in the use of ICT to improve education in developing and economically distressed countries.
My goal is to work on 2-3 high impact projects each year that make a difference in education. These projects include consultations, participation in expert panels and commissions, policy formulation, program evaluation, program design, proposal development, and contributions to policy white papers. My services are available to ministries of education, national government agencies, universities and research institutes, multi-governmental and non-government organizations, and multi-national corporations with a mission to improve the economic and social conditions of the countries in which they work.
For example, in Africa I worked with the Millennium Villages Projects to identify how ICT could advance the Millennium Development Goals and support the development of rural villages.
In Jordan, I evaluated the World Links Arab Region Program to introduce computers into schools and train teachers to integrate them into the curriculum.
In Egypt, I worked with a USAID-sponsored educational ICT project and advised the Ministry of Education on how technology could support education reform in coordination with their national economic development plan.
I consulted with Intel Corp on the way ICT could support education reform and economic development for the countries in which they work.
I worked with experts in the US, Europe, and Africa to write a handbook on the evaluation of educational ICT projects in developing countries (please note that this is a large file and will take a moment to load).
In Thailand, I worked with the Ministry of Education and the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching in Science and Technology on ways to evaluate the impact of the National ICT Master Plan, to develop a Master Plan for training teaching to integrate technology into their teaching, and to use technology to support the science, math, and technology curricula in Thailand.
I worked with the International Literacy Institute at the University of Pennsylvania to write several reports on the potential of ICT to address literacy needs in advanced and developing countries that have been published by UNESCO and OECD. In Singapore, I headed a panel for the Ministry of Education to evaluation their National Technology Master Plan.
And I worked with the Ford Foundation to analyze the need for funding ICT projects and programs in developing countries.
My target concerns include:
• The coordination of education ICT and reform policies with other economic and social policies such as those in telecommunications, science and technology, capacity development, and manpower development.
• The evaluation of ICT programs that measures the contribution of technology on student learning.
• The use of ICT and community technology centers to support development in disadvantaged communities.
• The coordination of ICT policies with other education reform policies in pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment.
• The design of teacher professional development programs that integrate ICT into the curriculum.
• The access of non-English speakers to digital education content-particularly content in science and technology that would promote economic improvement in developing countries.
• The development of digital content by non-English speakers-particularly cultural content that would provide a world-presence for ethnic and language minority peoples.
I am pleased to discuss how I might be able to help you with any of these issues.
