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Meta-survey
on the
Use
of Technologies
in Education
in Asia
and
the
Pacific
2003-2004.
Edited
by Glen
Farrell,
Ph.D.
and
Cédric
Wachholz.
(Bangkok:
UNESCO
Asia
and
Pacific
Regional
Bureau
for
Education,
2003).
Available
online
at http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/metasurvey
Reviewer:
José
Manuel
Ochoa-Alcántar
Farrell
and
Wachholz
provide
a comprehensive
report
of the
findings
of a
large-scale
survey
of the
uses
of information
and
communication
technologies
(ICT)
in UNESCO
member
countries
in the
Asia-Pacific
region.
The
surveys
were
prepared
country-by-country
by different
individuals
or teams.
The
reader
is immediately
struck
by the
sheer
volume
of information
condensed
in its
almost
300
pages,
as well
as the
great
effort
that
each
of the
authors
invested
in researching
and
compiling
each
country
report.
Fortunately,
the
individual
reports
are
brief
and
follow
a consistent
pattern,
so that
the
cases
can
be compared
quite
easily.
The
book
consists
of 44
country-by-country,
systematically
organized,
brief
reports
of the
current
state
of ICT
in education
throughout
Asia
and
the
Pacific
arranged
into
four
regions-Central
and
South
West
Asia,
East
and
South-East
Asia,
Pacific
Island
Countries,
and
South
Asia-written
by 24
authors
who
work
as researchers,
instructional
designers,
consultants,
professors,
and
specialists
in ICT.
In
this
report,
UNESCO
uses
a very
broad
definition
of ICT,
including
broadcast
technologies
(radio
and
television),
computers,
related
peripherals,
e-mail,
and
the
Internet
and
World
Wide
Web.
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