INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OPEN, DISTANCE AND E-LEARNING (ISODEL) 2009 Depdiknas yang berlangsung 8-11 Desember 2009 di Sheraton Mustika Ratu Hotel Yogyakarta akhirnya ditutup dengan “ Summary and Recommendation yang dibacakan oleh Prof. Dr. Paulina Pannen.

 Berikut  Summary and Recommendation tersebut :

ICT has been one of the important efforts to widen access to education, improve quality of education, improve governance and increase accountability of education.

Its rapid development and growing pervasive use in education has changed the way knowledge is constructed, distributed, challenged, and improved upon.

Various examples and best practices have been presented from face-to-face school context to distance education higher education context both at national as well as international setting.

Nevertheless, the use of ICT in education should not be read to cover only access, infrastructure, and technical gadget, but includes a wider perspective of the human users, the design of learning experience, software of the system, ethics and culture of ICT, and the role of ICT as enabler of societal and global transformation. 

Although …

• the penetration rate,

• the rate of computer ownership,

• the number of internet hosts and cafe,

• and rate of ICT literacy,

• even the creative and innovative use of ICT in education are prolificing,

the general picture of ICT utilization for education and learning purposes in Indonesia as well as in many countries still need further encouragement.

 In many countries, schools and higher education are involved in various efforts of using ICT for education. Nevertheless, within those same countries, we are witnessing situation where there is no computer yet in school, teachers lacking of skills to use ICT, unavailability of e-content, and the insufficient infrastructure.

 For many cases, this has been one of the constraint due to unavailability of policy supporting the effort.

 In order to elevate the use and integration of ICT in education, there are several priority efforts to be taken by many parties, including the government, such as:

 Provision of connectivity, quality structure and infrastructure of ICT.

Development of quality transaction in education through the use of ICT, which requires:

 • Socialization of e-education policy and strategy

• development teachers’ and lecturers’ capacity in the use of ICT,

• provision of e-content for the use in education,

• high quality design of learning experience and interaction.

Dissemination and socialization on the use of ICT in education as to changing the education tradition into e-education which further leads to transformation of our education system in this global village.

Strong leadership from Pustekkom, and commitment and synergy from all parties are needed on facilitating this development of ICT in education across  boundary.

 See you in ISODEL 2011  [ jae ]