Endnotes

¹"The explosion of new knowledge, accelerating technological progress, and ever-increasing competition make life-long learning more important than ever." World Bank (1998/99: 8).

² For information on links between education and ICTs in East Asia, see Chapter 5, "Education for Growth", in Yusuf (2000).

³ The following section draws on useful observations in Taylor (2000). See also Teacher Education Guidelines (UNESCO).

⁴ Knowledge of how best to apply web-based education techniques appears to have lagged behind the rapidly-expanding range of tools that the new ICTs have made available. For a useful discussion, see Moore and Cozine (2000). A very substantial literature has developed around the topic of the efficacy of web-based techniques as an education tool. See, for example, Brown and Liedholm, AER, May 2002.