Education Bureau
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One-hundred applications from 232 schools have been received for the Pilot Scheme on e-Learning in Schools, the Education Bureau says.
The applications came from the primary, secondary and special-school sectors. About 43% involved school clusters, highlighting collaborations among schools in the pilot scheme.
The application results will be announced in December. The pilot schools will be working with partners like tertiary institutions, the information technology sector, educational publishers, content providers, and non-Government organisations to develop commercially viable business models for e-learning resources. They should implement their e-learning proposals at the student level by next September.
Under Secretary for Education Kenneth Chen said he is impressed with the enthusiasm for the implementation of e-learning and the commitment to developing school-based e-learning resources.
"The successful school applicants will, over the coming three years of the pilot scheme, position themselves as research and development centres to develop and validate when and how e-learning works best to bring about effective interactive learning, to cater for learner diversity and to facilitate the charting of the way forward for wider adoption of e-learning in schools."
The Government has allocated $68 million to the three-year pilot scheme, of which $57 million will be disbursed to up to 30 pilot projects to support their implementation. The remaining funds will be used for back-end support and for engaging in research and development in support of formulation of strategies for large-scale implementation of e-learning in schools.
