Evaluation of the OLPC Program in Perú (Una Laptop por niño)
22 May, 2012Information via Inter-American Development Bank
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is conducting a multi-year randomized evaluation of the impact of the OLPC project in Peru – the first rigorous attempt to examine the impact of the largest “1-to-1 computing” initiative in a developing country. Building on their initial report in 2010, they built a second report (in December 2011), that examined the academic achievement and impacts on cognitive skills that XO laptops facilitated in a 15-month randomized control trial with 21,000 students in 319 schools.
EVALUATION OF THE “UNA LAPTOP POR NIÑO” PROGRAM IN PERU: RESULTS AND PERSPECTIVES
Summary: The effective implementation of the “One Laptop per Child” program was not enough to overcome the difficulties of a design that places its trust in the role of technologies themselves. The use of technologies in education is not a magic and rapid solution through which educational problems and challenges can be solved with the simple acquisition of technological devices and systems.
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