Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies
The British educational communications and technology agency (Becta) was established in 1998 and finally closed in 2011. The government in England set out Becta’s priorities in annual remit letters, and the agency’s changing role is traced through...
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| description | The British educational communications
and technology agency (Becta) was established in 1998 and
finally closed in 2011. The government in England set out
Becta’s priorities in annual remit letters, and the agency’s
changing role is traced through the content of these
letters. Becta primarily addressed school-based and
technical and vocational education and it acted as the key
agency in taking forward England’s e-learning strategy,
harnessing technology. In Becta’s lifetime, technology
changed dramatically, and the agency played an important
role in building the capacity of schools and colleges to
support their work and the learning of students through
technology. Becta played an important role in conducting
research and gathering evidence in use of technology for
learning and in developing education leadership and teacher
capacity to use technology across the school curriculum.
While every national context is different, some of the
experience associated with Becta’s existence may provide a
starting point for reflection on the development of
similarly focused information and communication technology
(ICT) in education agencies. |
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| spelling | wb-10986-260902025-04-10T15:28:58Z Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies Lessons from England (Becta) Dykes, Gavin ICT education ICT education agencies education policy The British educational communications and technology agency (Becta) was established in 1998 and finally closed in 2011. The government in England set out Becta’s priorities in annual remit letters, and the agency’s changing role is traced through the content of these letters. Becta primarily addressed school-based and technical and vocational education and it acted as the key agency in taking forward England’s e-learning strategy, harnessing technology. In Becta’s lifetime, technology changed dramatically, and the agency played an important role in building the capacity of schools and colleges to support their work and the learning of students through technology. Becta played an important role in conducting research and gathering evidence in use of technology for learning and in developing education leadership and teacher capacity to use technology across the school curriculum. While every national context is different, some of the experience associated with Becta’s existence may provide a starting point for reflection on the development of similarly focused information and communication technology (ICT) in education agencies. 2017-02-17T20:57:28Z 2017-02-17T20:57:28Z 2016 Working Paper Document de travail Documento de trabajo http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/250921487331745441/Building-and-sustaining-national-ICT-and-education-agencies-lessons-from-England-Becta https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26090 10.1596/26090 English en_US World Bank Education, Technology & Innovation: SABER-ICT Technical Paper Series,no. 6; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC |
| spellingShingle | ICT education ICT education agencies education policy Dykes, Gavin Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies |
| title | Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies |
| title_full | Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies |
| title_fullStr | Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies |
| title_short | Building and Sustaining National ICT Education Agencies |
| title_sort | building and sustaining national ict education agencies |
| topic | ICT education ICT education agencies education policy |
| url | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/250921487331745441/Building-and-sustaining-national-ICT-and-education-agencies-lessons-from-England-Becta https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26090 |
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