What are the costs/benefits of situating ICTs for use in schools outside of computer classroom?
Cost-benefit analyses of situating computers outside of classrooms, but rather in school libraries, teacher training institutions and community telecentres (including those that are school-based), would be quite useful. • Research question 22: How can public-private partnerships be used to ‘cut costs’ and what are the resulting cost savings (if any)? Case studies of a variety of strategies explored by public-private partnerships to deliver ICT hardware, educational software and content, maintenance and training as ways to share costs should also be explored. Comments Significant work needs to be done related to the costs of ICT in education initiatives in LDCs. All of the claims listed in the related “Knowledge Map” pertaining to costs found in current literature deserve additional scrutiny. There is little credible data related to the costs of using ICTs to support education in developing countries. Few good, reliable cost studies of ICT in education implementations exist. Those that
