ICT – Approach

Innovations suited to South Africa’s unique multicultural, multilingual and developmental circumstances are required to confront the challenges in education. Effective mechanisms are needed for sharing, building, growing and applying the knowledge gained in academic research projects. The approaches used will combine the practical focus of development projects with the rigour of academic research and stringent evaluation. Research, development and innovation will be linked to implementation within a framework of an overall ICT in Education strategy.

The aim of the group is to influence and support the transformation of education in South Africa where each child benefits from an environment where technology is embedded into learning and teaching.

A core team of ICT in Education specialists, researchers, analysts and engineers within Meraka will be built up over the next few years to work in partnership with multi-disciplinary researchers at tertiary educational and research institutions in South Africa and worldwide.