The Leader award grantee for dot-EDU is the Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
The manager of dot-EDU at USAID is Stephen Tournas, stournas@usaid.gov.
Under the dot-EDU cooperative agreement, EDC and its partners establish learning systems pilots and applications, with gender equity as a priority throughout, that include:
- using Internet/ICT to increase the reach and quality of programs in basic education, teacher training, workforce development, and higher education;
- developing centers of excellence for the production of interactive, multi-media instructional materials in national and indigenous languages;
- applications of Internet/ICT for learning systems in countries suffering the effects of civil unrest, natural disasters, and HIV/AIDS;
- developing distance learning programs using multi-media and CD-ROM technology; and
- establishing and enhancing networks of school-to-school programs to stimulate teacher and student use of CD-ROM and Internet technology for learning.
The five core partners of dot-EDU are:
- Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), is a non-profit experienced in managing large international assistance projects that provide technology services in a range of development fields, including education, training, health, economic growth, and environment. EDC's areas of technical competence include: IT strategy, distance education/training, electronic networking strategies, ICT for small/medium business development, evaluation studies of ICT use. The dot-EDU project director is William Wright.
- Academy for Educational Development (AED) has extensive experience in applying technology to meet critical developmental challenges including promoting gender equality in education; ranging from interactive radio, television and satellites to computer-based learning, education management information systems and the Internet. With a staff of 800 and a budget of $140 million, AED conducts education, health, environment, gender, and youth developmental activities both in the developing world and in the United States.
- The Concord Consortium is a non-profit created in 1995 to improve education through innovative research, development, and implementations that exploit the education potential of new technologies. It has extensive experience in on-line teacher professional development and the on-line preparation of teachers and facilitators who offer on-line courses.
- Howard University is a historically black institution of higher learning with pedagogical and organizational expertise in extending educational access to under-served populations. The symposia that Howard has established for joint post-baccalaureate programs have resulted in the participation of 40 institutions in the U.S. and 46 institutions in 21 African countries. Such collaborations include a project to develop the ICT capacity throughout Malawi's basic and higher education system nationwide.
- Michigan State University (MSU) is engaged in many projects to enhance connectivity, facilitate networking, and share information through the Internet. For example, MSU has helped to develop and provide caching servers to school districts throughout Michigan to compensate for low-level connectivity. One of 34 founding members of Internet2, MSU designs, develops, and delivers a wide range of virtual university programs and courses, web sites, CD-ROMs, and public television programs.
- Prince George's County Community College (PGCCC) has created and implemented innovative distance education programs for under-served institutions in Africa and Europe and has designed a successful distance education program for its own faculty. PGCCC has been the lead institution in several USAID-funded partnership grants with Vista University in South Africa.
The core private sector resource partners are:
- Intel Corporation
- IBM Corporation
- Sun Microsystems
- ThinkQuest, Advanced Network Systems
The core institutional resource partners are:
- Centro Peruano de Audicion, Lenguaje y Aprendizaje (CPAL)
- Council for Basic Education (CBE)
- Earthwalk Communications, Inc.
- International Educational and Resource Network (I*EARN)
- International Literacy Institute/Univ. of Pennsylvania
- Intercultural Center for Research in Education (INCRE)
- Regional Center for Educational Innovation and Technology (INNOTECH), Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization
- International Research & Exchange Board (IREX)
- Monterey Institute of Technology
- Media Bridge
- MIT Media Laboratory
- NIIT
- Omar Dengo Foundation
- Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)
- Real World Productions
- University of Pittsburgh
- World As A Classroom
- World Computer Exchange
- World Education
- World Links
- WorldSpace Foundation
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