Monday, March 28, 2016

IT Education for Sustainable Development

Australia and India can cooperate on e-learning to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals to:
  1. Train teachers in technology
  2. Further understanding between the nations
  3. Provide new education export industry for Australia

UN Sustainable Development Goals

UN Sustainable Development Goals
Seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
 "... end poverty ... protect the planet ... ensure prosperity for all ... foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies ... based on a  spirit of strengthened global solidarity ..."
UN General Assembly resolution 70/17, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A /RES/70/1 (21 October 2015). Retrieved from  https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N15/291/89/PDF/N1529189.pdf

Quality Education

UN Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all".
UN SDG 4, General Assembly resolution 70/17, p. 17, 2015.


General Assembly resolution 70/17, p. 17, 2015.

Partnerships for the Goals

UN SDG Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
SDG 17: "Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing ..."

General Assembly resolution 70/17, p. 26, 2015.

India-Australia Cooperation on Education

Mr Christopher Pyne MP, Australian Minister for Education and Mrs Smriti Zubin Irani Indian Minister of Human Resource Development
“Supporting the mobility of students ... Sharing best practice education materials ... Supporting skills development ...”

(2015, August 24). Memorandum of understanding Between the Government of Australia and The Government of the Republic of India on Cooperation in the Fields of Education, Training and Research. Retrieved from  http://www.australiaindiaeducation.com/app/webroot/img/userfiles/MOU_2015.pdf

Australia Free E-Learning Materials

Australian Curriculum Technologies

Four Colombo Plans

  1. Colombo Plan, 1951: Western nations Cold War strategy against USSR, during which 20,000 university students from region educated in Australia  (Oakman, p.  3, 2010).  
  2. Virtual Colombo Plan, 2001: $230M from Australian Government to support of DE programs based in developing countries, including the African Virtual University (Wolff, p.25, 2002).
  3. New Colombo Plan, 2013:  $100M for scholarships over five years  to send Australian students to study in Indo-Pacific universities (New Colombo Plan Secretariat, 2013).
  4. Digital Colombo Plan,  2015: AARnet proposal for fibre-optic link to region's educational institutions and for direct e-learning (AARnet, 2015).

Propose Certificate Programs for Indian Teachers

Combine CSER course content with ANU multi-cultural techniques to create on-line courses for the Digital Technologies to teachers of the Indo-Pacific region, starting with Australia and India.

Align courses to Australian AITSL teaching standards
Deliver to smart phones using off-the-shelf free open access learning management system

References

(2015, August 24). Memorandum of understanding Between the Government of Australia and The Government of the Republic of India on Cooperation in the Fields of Education, Training and Research. Retrieved from  http://www.australiaindiaeducation.com/app/webroot/img/userfiles/MOU_2015.pdf
AARnet. (2015, May 29). Draft National Strategy for International Education : AARNet Submission. Retrieved from https://submissions.education.gov.au/Forms/Draft-National-Strategy-for-International-Education-public-consultation/_layouts/SP.Submissions/ViewDoc.ashx?id=%7B8983b29c-3de0-474c-9c5a-5e335c901721%7D
New Colombo Plan Secretariat. (2013). New Colombo Plan: Guidelines Scholarship Program. Canberra:Australian Government. Retrieved fromhttp://www.dfat.gov.au/new-colombo-plan/downloads/ncp-guidelines-scholarship-program.pdf
Oakman, D. (2010). Facing Asia: a history of the Colombo Plan (p. 323). ANU Press. Retrieved from http://press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/whole7.pdf
UN General Assembly resolution 70/17, Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A /RES/70/1 (21 October 2015). Retrieved from  https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N15/291/89/PDF/N1529189.pdf
Wolff, L. (2002). The African Virtual University: the challenge of higher education development in sub-Saharan Africa. TechKnowLogia, International Journal of Technologies for the Advancement of Knowledge and Learning, 4(2). Retrieved from http://www.techknowlogia.org/TKL_Articles/PDF/384.pdf

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