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Using Self-Efficacy to measure primary school teachers’ perception of ICT : results from two studies

Fanni, Francesca ; Rega, Isabella ; Cantoni, Lorenzo

In: International journal of education and development using ICT, 2013, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 100-111

The aim of this article is twofold. First, the final results of two research projects, which investigated the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on primary schools teachers in disadvantaged areas in Brazil (BET k-12) and South Africa (MELISSA), are presented and discussed. Second, the Self-Efficacy construct is proposed as a tool to measure how teachers’ perception of...

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What do local people think about telecentres? A key issue for sustainability

Rega, Isabella ; Poglia, Edo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010.

The subject of the study are telecentres, public places where people can access information through ICT, and which should fulfill the communication needs of the communities in which they are located. The central question of this thesis sprang from the study of the available literature and from nine exploratory field studies carried out in West Africa (in Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea and...