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Richard

Your message rang a few bells with me. In the countries I work with, especially where I live at present, (Cambodia) training remains lacking from all perspectives. We are faced with more basic needs including lack of facilities, lack of electricity, lack of trained teachers in all subjects and plenty of other lacks. ICt-educaiton is seen as a potential leapfrogging method yet training must come soon or any deployment may just collect dust.

The aim is to initially present some of the killer value-for-money edu apps
like moodle and schooltool and build from there into courses on linux servers,
desktops and teaching about open source to students.

Some priorities and potential tools I see for Cambodia are

website development - we like Joomla s it is easy to teach and immensely expandable. Our Joomla Users Group is planning various activities in the near future and hopes to rollout training in cooperation with the National ICT Development Authority nationwide for all sectors... education, business, government and beyond...

school admin - your suggestion of schooltool is one I have looked at for the past years... but as far as I can see it is not as mature as OpenAdmin... not having used any of the FLOSS school admin solutions I have little to go on... what are your thoughts?

distance education - of course Moodle looks great... but I think we are still a long way form offering distance educaiton... infrastructure, cultural changes and much more needs to come...

We really need hardware in Cambodia... if any of you have ideas on how to help us get donated computers then please do email me individually..

We're also looking for wiki hosting for gathering material, performing the
editorial process and fleshing out the course material.

what material do you wish to gather?

Peace
Tim

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John "Tim" Denny, Ph.D. ICT and Education Specialist
Adviser to the Cambodia MoEYS on Science and Technology Education
Executive Director, PC4peace http://www.pc4peace.org
Advisory Board, Masters of Development Studies -RUPP
International Journal of Multicultural Education, Electronic Green Journal
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"More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given" Bertrand Russell

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