ICT in National Education Strategy

Bulgaria , 2005 to 2007

Compendium: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

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Background

The initiative implied supplying all Bulgarian schools with ICT infrastructure (including broadband). Moreover, a national educational portal with educational resources and shared content was constructed. In order to ensure successful implementation of the new hardware and software, teachers have had ICT training on core ICT skills and productivity tools. Finally, the curriculum was reformed to promote effective, creative use of ICT across all subjects, including the introduction of one hour a week of ICT as a subject for all schools from Grade 5, with the option of introducing ICT as a subject from Grade 1.
 
Participants
  • Ministry of Education and Science.
  • 3 000 schools in Bulgaria.
  • National ICT Agency.
Motivation
 
There is a common understanding that ICT is the key to modernising the wider educational system. ICT-based education will present a chance to deliver knock-on benefits for the whole culture of education in Bulgaria, nurturing innovation and openness to new ideas, raising quality and promoting standards, to the benefit of all stakeholders.

Aims and targets

Objectives
  • Improving students’ access to computers and moving the focus from lab-orientated provision to computers in the classroom.
  • Improving connectivity so that all schools have access to the Internet.
  • Addressing the dearth of good, fit-for-purpose Bulgarian e-learning content, especially for secondary school students.
  • Improving teaching skills and confidence through basic ICT skills training and ICT pedagogy training.
  • Reforming the curriculum to introduce ICT into lower secondary education.
  • Promoting a strategic, innovative approach to ICT development at school-leader level.
Target group
 
Students, teachers, school leaders.
 
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