The areas featured in the Education and Training division of the ICAST'07 multi-conference include, but NOT limited to, the following:
- eLearning & ICT in Education and Training
- Principles of Effective Learning and Teaching
- understanding the learner
- understanding the learning process
- providing a supportive and challenging environment for learning
- establishing worthwhile learning partnerships
- shaping and responding to a variety of social and cultural contexts
- Open Learning, Virtual Classroom and Distance Education
- Technology Education: State of the Art and Future Directions
- What is the nature of the curriculum?
- Where does Africa stand in the use of technology in education?
- What is the level of student proficiency in the use of emerging technologies?
- What do we need, as compared to what we want?
- Workplace learning, practicum and field placements
- Community and service-based learning
- Simulated environments, both virtual and non-virtual
- Problem-based, project-based and case-based learning
- Transition to work programs
- Technology Education: Transfer of Knowledge from Institutions to Industry
- What are the existing platforms for connecting research to practice?
- What are the literacy issues during transfer, and how can they be resolved?
- Science Education in the Developing World : Making Relevance for Student Interest
- What is the nature of the student in the Developing World?
- How can schooling be connected to the nature and needs of the student in the Developing World?
- Environmental Education: What Children Need to Know
- What are the current identified technology/environment needs?
- To what extent are identified technology/environment needs reflected in the school curriculum?
- Environmental Education: What Teachers Need to Know
- To what extent are identified technology/environment needs reflected in teacher education curricula?
- What are the needs, obstacles, etc.?
- Environmental Education: What Administrators Need to Know
- How can school administrators be helped to foster technology education?
- What are their needs, challenges?
- How could the above issues be resolved?
- Environmental Education: Emerging Trends and Phenomena of Interest
- What are some of the current environmental and technology challenges?
- How can educational institutions be optimized to help in their resolutions?
- Technology Education: What National Leaders Need to Understand for Sustainable Policies
- In what ways can national policies benefit from environmental and technology education?
- How can policy-makers be informed of environmental and technology research in order to influence their policy-making process?
