Introduction Ministry of Education in Bahrain provides: free education for all: Bahraini and non-Bahraini students in public schools. with compulsory Basic Education.
ICT Infrastructure and Facilities In 1985: ICT has been taught as a subject. In 1997/1998: ICT (Internet) was used on a wide scale in the education sector and as a means for teaching study subjects. In 2001, the ministry set a clear vision and a strategic plan in implementing ICT across all educational levels by accomplishing a new elearning environment.
ICT Infrastructure and Facilities In 2002, UNESCO and the MOE established partnership and held an international conference to establish a national policy in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) including ICT in education as an important aspect in that conference.
King Hamad’s schools of the Future Project
Launch of the project • His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa launched the project in Al Hidaya Secondary Boys School on 18/1/2005 •
Project’s Mission • The Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain looks forward to utilizing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in learning and teaching processes on sound educational bases in the direction to support the new generation with the necessary competencies, behaviors and skills as one of the means to transform the Kingdom of Bahrain society into a Knowledge-based Economy
Khsfp Master Plans (Master plan 1) 2005-2010
(Master plan 2) 2011-2016
Master plans • King Hamad’s Schools of Future
• Project Master plans: • 1st IT Master plan: Horizontal expansion • 2nd IT Master plan: Vertical expansion
Master plan 1 - Master plan 1 focuses on change management and (school level) Training Infrastructure Support
Master plan 1 • Training • Teachers to acquire basic proficiency in IT integration • All teaching staff and other stakeholders are trained in the IT core skills (ICDL) and how to use new equipments (e.g. eboards) • On-going training on Learning Management system utilization • Train the trainers
Master plan 1 • Physical & Technological Infrastructure
• Centralized Data Center
• Centralized Educational Learning Management System in the MOE • Necessary physical and ICT infrastructure
for ICT-based teaching and learning
Networking Schools are completely networked with fiber-optics
Networking • All schools of the future facilities were provided with internet network in order to assist teachers to plan and prepare academic materials and e-lessons and to provide learners with searching resources.
Master plan 1 Learning Resources •
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Acquire & stimulate development of wide range of educational software to meet curriculum needs Facilitate use of relevant Internet resources for teaching & learning E-Content: eBooks and enrichments
Master plan 1 Support
– eLearning Team in each school – Training and employing support staff in the
schools: Educational Technology Specialists Information System officers Computer Laboratory Technicians
Master plan 1 Outcomes Schools: •Basic ICT infrastructure •Administrative and management excellence in the education system • Encouragement of innovative processes in education
Teachers : •Basic level of ICT integration competency •Acceptance and willingness to use ICT in education •Encouragement of exchange of knowledge and sharing of their production with others
Master plan 1 Outcomes – Society:
•Cultural awareness from society and organizations regarding the project’s importance •Transform the project into a national project •Developing human resources and Ministry’s staff for effective handling with the new learning environment
Master plan 2 • The second Master plan focuses on engaged learning (Student and classroom level) -Vertical expansion: • Content Production • eLearning Portal • ICT mentorship program • Safe Use of Technology
eLearning Master Plan 2 Evaluation ICT Mentorship
Educational Portal eContent Production & Publishing
Infrastructure
Content Production • Strategy for content From where and how: Mix and match content from multiple sources and within multiple systems • • • • •
Own production Buying ready made Buying tailored From teachers From students
– Ownership of content – Encouragement of Open Educational Resources (OER Policy)
Electronic Boards
Electronic boards provides interactivity, thrill, and fun for students and they are authoring tools for teachers.
Laptops
Laptops became the main device that assist teachers in the educational process. All schools were provided with laptops.
Document Camera
Document camera is an advanced device which is used for recording and presenting educational lessons. It has high quality features in zooming and in photo and video recording. It is a tool for content production.
Virtual labs ( math and science simulation systems)
Virtual lab is a software which helps learners stimulate science experiments and assist in preparing mathematical formulas : I t is an authoring tool.
Achievements: ICT Projects
King Hamad’s School’s of Future Project
UNESCO-King Hamad Bin Isa AlKhalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education
RCICT Regional Centre for Information and Communication Technologies
King Hamad’s Digital Library
What is next?
One decade after the initiative of King Hamad’s Schools of the Future.
Looking towards 2030: To equitable and inclusive quality education and lifelong learning for all.
Digital Empowerment in Education
Digital Empowerment in Learning (1:1 learning)
Why? • Harnessing ICTs to Provide Innovative & Sustainable Solutions for Smart Sustainable Development Model. – ICT as a Driver of Innovative & Comprehensive Educational Reforms.
• Readiness: – A decade in a national project in ICT in Education – E-Government Services
Why? – Empower students to be: • productive & life long learner
• prepared for the Digital Life in Smart Society(E-Inclusion 4 All Citizens). • citizens with better opportunities to live with quality and happiness.
Other initiatives: Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources To continue to add value and be sustainable, Ministry of Education supported many other initiatives like OER.
Bahrain OER Initiative Establish a Team Create OER System
Create a plan Implement the Plan Monitoring & Evaluation
Bahrain OER Initiative Establish a Team Create OER System Create a plan Implement the Plan Monitoring & Evaluation
Establish OER Team
OER TEAM
Bahrain OER Initiative Establish a Team
Create OER System Create a plan Implement the Plan Assessment & Evaluation
OER System: Sustainability Access to a venue for sharing open educational resources Sources and Methods for collecting and creating OER Infrastructure: Technology tools Quality of resources (standards, responsible teams)
Bahrain OER Initiative Establish a Team Create OER System
Create a plan Implement the Plan Assessment & Evaluation
OER Plan Raising Awareness Developing Capacity Technology Infrastructure Develop & Publish the Policy Implementation Monitoring & Evaluation
Raising Awareness: Communicating with and training educators
Workshop for the stakeholders in MOE to inform them about OER (Schools)
Workshop for the stakeholders in Ministry of Education to inform them about OER (Curricula & Supervision)
Education Sector workshop December 24th, 2014
Developing Capacity Training Needs’ Assessment Training educators
Training the trainers
Train the Trainers
Workshop for all Educational Technology Specialists (train the trainer) about Open License CC
April & May 2014
OER Plan Raising Awareness Developing Capacity
Technology Infrastructure Develop &Publish the Policy Implementation Monitoring & Evaluation
Content Management System • To develop an environment for open access, KHSFP tested Moodle, a popular content management system which is used as Educators’ Forum (learning Communities). • It is used for collaboration, communication, training and publishing.
Content Management System • Moodle was customised by the technical team in KHSFP to create an OpenContent directory. • Teachers were encouraged to add their lessons in the directory.
Metadata
eLessons on Website
Fist
47 43 37 29 Secondary
Second Third
62
Intermediate
56
100
Fourth Fifth Sixth
Primary
130
64
99
113
111
87 Vocational
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
OER Plan Raising Awareness Developing Capacity
Technology Infrastructure Develop & Publish the Policy Implementation
Monitoring & Evaluation
Position of OER Policy National Education Strategy ICT in Education Strategy Content Strategy
OER Policy
Workshop with UNESCO on OER PolicySeptember 2014
OER Policy Workshop– 22-24 September 2014
Introducing OER Policy to stakeholdersDecember 2014
OER Plan Raising Awareness Developing Capacity
Technology Infrastructure Develop & Publish the Policy
Implementation Monitoring & Evaluation
OER Implementation Open Licensing: release of copyright through Creative Commons
