Springer ICT in Education and Implications for the Belt and Road Initiative (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)

With increasing global challenges, the Belt and Road initiative seems to offer one possible platform to think about different possibilities and pathways to promote international collaboration and development covering Asia, Europe, Africa, and other countries. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education, as a key focus, provides  valuable perspectives for governments, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies wanting to innovate and advance both ICT and education independently and collaboratively. This book highlights the burgeoning of ICT in education in eleven countries,  with particular emphasis placed on the context of the Belt and Road Initiative. ICT has increasingly important roles in education including improve teaching and learning qualities, as well as equity in education. The prominent contributors describe the state-of-the-art of ICT in education in eleven countries based on six major themes (policy perspectives, infrastructure, educational resources, ICT integration into practices, students’ ICT competence, and teachers’ professional development). We hope the in-depth discussions included in this book would provoke more academic and policy insights globally.  From the Back Cover With increasing global challenges, the Belt and Road initiative seems to offer one possible platform to think about different possibilities and pathways to promote international collaboration and development covering Asia, Europe, Africa, and other countries. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education, as a key focus, provides  valuable perspectives for governments, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies wanting to innovate and advance both ICT and education independently and collaboratively. This book highlights the burgeoning of ICT in education in eleven countries,  with particular emphasis placed on the context of the Belt and Road Initiative. ICT has increasingly important roles in education including improve teaching and learning qualities, as well as equity in education. The prominent contributors describe the state-of-the-art of ICT in education in eleven countries based on six major themes (policy perspectives, infrastructure, educational resources, ICT integration into practices, students’ ICT competence, and teachers’ professional development). We hope the in-depth discussions included in this book would provoke more academic and policy insights globally.  About the Author Chee-Kit Looi is a Professor of Education at the National Institute of Education, and co-Director of the Centre of Research and Development in Learning, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From 2004 to 2008, he was the Founding Head of the Learning Sciences Lab, Singapore, the first research center devoted to the study of the sciences of learning in the Asia-Pacific region. He has contributed to several meta-synthesis reports, including the 2016 Innovating Pedagogies Report, and the European Commission JRC Scientific and Policy Report on “Exploring conditions for sustainability, scalability and impact at system level ICT-enabled innovation for learning in Europe and Asia.” He currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Transactions in Learning Technologies, International Journal of AI in Education, International Journal of CSCL, and Journal of the Learning Sciences.   Hui Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University, China. Her research interests are in the field of learning and instruction, with a major focus on technology-enhanced teaching and learning. Her work chiefly focuses on integrating digital literacy education into the curriculum, and on students’ digital literacy.   Yuan Gao is Director of the Open Educational Resources Lab and a Senior Researcher at the Smart Learning Institute, Beijing Normal University. Her main research interests include inst