1. ICT, EDUCATION, AND Neil
RURAL DEVELOPMENT Butcher

2. THE OPPORTUNITIES…
Telecommunications capacity is growing
rapidly
Growth in range of devices at reducing
cost
Lower power use and growth in solar
power
And there is an explosion of freely
available, high quality content online
that educators and students can link to…

3. With tools that are already
available, there are almost limitless
opportunities to design high quality
teaching and learning environments…

5. MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS

8. VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
(MOODLE)

9. Use is growing in Africa and other similar
contexts…

10. AGSHARE

12. GUYANA

13. INSTITUTIONALIZING OPENNESS
Investment in more effective
teaching, learning, and research
environments using resource-based
learning
Embrace open licensing environments
Need to be accompanied by review of
institutional policies
Bandwidth and access have become
essential