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Information and communication technologies (ICT) in education have been regarded as playing an important role in the development of educational equity and quality. There are many successful cases in promoting educational quality and equity in different countries and regions; however, it is still a big challenge to scale up the use of ICT in education to achieve educational development across a system. This chapter introduces the policies about ICT in education and their implementation in China and shares the experiences of scaling-up ICT in education in a big developing country. The chapter also describes a few successful cases of scaled-up ICT-based innovations in China and analyzes their characteristics. The diffusion models of decentralization and centralization in Mainland China are discussed at the end of the chapter.
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The authors wish to thank the Beijing Normal University and Intel Co. for offering a research grant to support this research. Thanks also to Roger Dale and Chee-Kit Looi for their insightful comments and constructive suggestions for improving the paper.
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Zhang, J., Yang, J., Fan, L., Huang, R. (2015). Innovation Scale-Up of ICT in Education in China. In: Looi, CK., Teh, L. (eds) Scaling Educational Innovations. Education Innovation Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-537-2_9
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