Lessons Learned About Giving an Educational Technology Training Workshop in a Developing Country

Abstract

PCF2 // The Commonwealth of Learning, in cooperation with the Advanced Computing Training School of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing in India, sponsored a workshop on designing and developing instructional new media (computer-based and web-based training) materials in Pune, India. The British Columbia Institute of Technology was engaged to provide a facilitator for the training. This paper describes what was done that helped make the project a success as well as ideas that will help make future educational technology training projects in developing countries more successful. //