Curriculum development session: Teaching ICT policy skills
The Curriculum Resource Center (CRC) of Central European University and the CMCS this week are hosting a CRC course innovation session on Teaching ICT Policy Skills. The session is organized in collaboration with the Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and the InfoDev program.
CRC sessions aim to explore innovative trends in curriculum development and promote capacity building and professional development among senior faculty and outstanding, research-oriented junior faculty from Central and Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Participants discuss recent developments and explore contemporary debates with CEU host faculty and researchers, with the intention to revise or update their courses or prepare new courses.
Teaching ICT Policy Skills
May 14 -18, 2012
This CRC session provides 13 participants from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the UK with an opportunity to enhance the curricula of their home institutions in public policy and law by developing interest and teaching capacity in ICT policy skills. The session aims to promote a critical, analytic, and innovative study of the complex and often conflicting public policy demands of the ICT sector, and to introduce participants to the basic principles underpinning international telecommunications laws.
The session intends to approach the topic from an interdisciplinary, comparative perspective; to build analytic skills to understand and critically engage with current policy debates about ICT; to survey how some of the newest industries and technologies function and are regulated; to present an overview of policy developments and regulations throughout the region. It will also provide participants with practical skills in curriculum design, development and implementation.
The substantive issues that will be covered include fundamentals of ICT policymaking and regulation with special attention to new technologies, including developments in broadband Internet and mobile; international perspectives and national case studies on ICT policy in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; the economic, social, and political role of ICT in development, including innovation, market structure, system architecture, and significant applications.
The program includes course design, teching methodology and course alignment workshops, and introductions to an ITU - ICT Policy Module and the ICT Policy and Regulatory Training Initiative (IPTI) for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA).