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The Rwanda Education Commons (REC) aims to help Rwanda expand access to quality education through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). It hopes to realize this goal by improving the climate for collaboration in the use of ICTs in education, and by implementing activities that use ICTs to supplement teaching and learning. The REC aims to realize a vision of strong and effective collaboration among education stakeholders. Therefore, REC is establishing multi-stakeholder tools and management systems for ongoing improvement to Rwanda’s education system through the use of ICTs. Also, REC is supporting the completion of ICT in education policy documents and support tools to ensure ICT in education activities to supplement national and education sector goals, and identifying areas for partner involvement. Furthermore, REC is facilitating partnerships between providers of ICT in Rwanda education institutions that support Rwanda’s education system. In addition, REC and partner institutions aim to improve the quality and availability of education materials by identifying, reviewing, acquiring and adapting materials suitable for Rwanda’s teachers and students. REC and its partners are also are facilitating the production of new education materials. And participants from partner education institutions are gaining skills in a variety of ICT areas, including website development and management, multimedia curriculum design, and pedagogy training around the use of multimedia education resources. Furthermore, REC and partner institutions are designing and implementing strategies for distributing online and offline educational resources, and working to establish a professional learning community around the use of multimedia education resources.

Keywords

information technology; information science education; computer literacy; computer based training; curriculum; curriculum; teaching-learning research; teaching-learning process; teacher training; teacher exchange; multimedia; management in education; quality of education; cooperation; educational policy;