Latin America is facing an education crisis. More children and young adults are attending school, but an alarming number of them drop out early or graduate with low learning levels. This crisis is largely due to the lack of innovation in schools, as teachers continue to use ineffective pedagogical methods and outdated teaching tools.
Public education systems must explore how to tap into the transformative power of technology to significantly and sustainably change how children learn and how education systems operate. Latin America is desperately lacking a vision for educational innovation, one that takes advantage of the region’s increased connectivity and access to the internet, as well as new technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data and virtual reality.
The Inter-American Dialogue has established a Working Group on Innovation and Technology in Education with the purpose of generating that vision and promoting it at a regional level.
The mission of the Working Group is to contribute to creating an ecosystem for educational innovation in which actors from the public and private sectors collaborate effectively to generate and scale up new innovations in education.
The Working Group’s specific objectives are:
April 2016: Role of E-Learning in Higher Education in Latin America
July 2015: Computers in Primary Education: Caution!
February 2015: ICTs & Teacher Training in Latin America
January 2015: Monitoring System of School Days in Guatemala
January 2015: Education, Skills, and Innovation in LAC
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