Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Lebanon’s National Educational Technology Strategic Plan

النوع : Report

This plan marks a first step in Lebanon’s journey toward technology integration in schools. Lebanon’s national educational technology strategic plan lays out a five-year roadmap to guide the implementation and integration of information and communications technology (ICT) within all levels of the Lebanese general education system. This strategic plan establishes a vision, set of goals and objectives, and recommendations that government, donors, private- and public-sector implementers, schools, principals, and teachers must address so that every stakeholder is working from and toward the same vision, goals, and outcomes. The strategic plan covers the period of September 2012 to September 2017. This strategic plan defines the mission and purpose of using ICT in schools; outlines the core beliefs of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) and its assumptions regarding how ICT can best improve teaching and learning; guides government, donors, and other funders on key areas for potential investment and funding; delineates critical activities needed to make the vision and goals for ICT for teaching and learning a reality for every Lebanese student; and defines key terms and practices to assure standardized, uniform, and high-quality implementation of technology for teaching and learning. The ultimate goal of this strategic plan is to use technology to enhance, and support changes in all components of the educational system as they affect teaching and learning to prepare students in Lebanon to take their places as high-achieving, highly competent and highly skilled workers, learners, and citizens of a knowledge-based society that increasingly relies on and interacts with digital tools and information.