According to the information collected through various means including school visits and survey, schools are positive in promoting e-learning. Many schools are implementing or exploring various strategies to further realise the benefits of using mobile computing devices in learning and teaching, such as wider adoption of e-learning resources/e-textbooks, promotion of assessment for learning through e-assessment, and implementing the 1:1 student-device ratio (or Bring Your Own Device) policy to facilitate students’ personalised learning within and beyond school campus. In this connection, schools need to deploy more resources to support these strategies in the practice of e-learning.
The Education Bureau (EDB) will provide all public sector schools joining the WiFi-100 project and Batches 1 & 2 of the WiFi-900 project with the OITG in January 2017 to implement or explore various e-learning strategies using mobile computing devices.
For the remaining some 200 schools for Batch 3 of the WiFi-900 project, we will disburse the OITG and the one-off grant under the ITE4 to them in the 2017/18 school year in accordance with their number of approved classes. Eligible schools will be informed of the details in due course.
The amount of OITG to be disbursed will be on average $200,000 per school. In line with the current practice for disbursement of the Composite Information Technology Grant, this one-off grant will be determined in accordance with the number of approved classes of your School in the 2016/17 school year. The amount is indicated in the table below.
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Three identical briefing sessions on the use of OITG and other relevant support measures under the ITE4 from 18 to 20 January 2017. Schools, including those schools joining Batch 3 of the WiFi-900 project, are invited to nominate a maximum of two representatives to attend the sessions and enrol through the Training Calendar System [Course ID: EI0020160431].
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