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EdVantage is a flagship programme by IDA with the support of the Ministry of Education (MOE). Aligned to Ministry of Education's IT Master Plan, it aims to strategically deploy infocomm to provide a learner-centric, collaborative learning environment that extends beyond the classrooms, thereby enabling a diverse and vibrant schools landscape in the use of infocomm.
The programme seeks to harness infocomm to transform the education system in Singapore. Using innovative solutions to showcase Singapore as the leader in exploiting infocomm in education, it is also expected to help create revenue opportunities and new capabilities for local infocomm enterprises in the education sector.
The programme aims to transform the learning process through harnessing infocomm through the following three components:
- iACCESS will provide a pervasive and cost-effective infocomm access for learning anytime, anywhere;
- iLEARN will provide interactive digital resources for Independent learning; and
- iEXPERIENCE will empower learners through collaborative, intelligent applications that are adaptable to different learning styles.
Through EdVantage,
- All schools will be competent users of infocomm, where their capacity for technology planning, integration and implementation will be built up;
- 15-20 per cent of the schools, Experimental Schools, will be the test-beds for the innovative use of infocomm in teaching and learning;
- Another five per cent of the schools, Schools of the Future (otherwise known as the FutureSchools@Singapore), will experiment with emergent technologies that will become more widely used in the future.
EdVantage Programme
Students, Education practitioners, Professionals, Infocomm industry including the Interactive and Digital Media companies.
EdVantage video
For Dial-up users:
1. What are the Ministry of Education's (MOE) Master Plans?
The first masterplan for IT in education, launched in 1997, had established a strong foundation for the use of infocomm in teaching and learning. It put up in place an excellent IT infrastructure, built up the competencies of teachers and learners. Building on the foundation, MOE's IT in Education Masterplan II (mp2), which was launched in 2002, aimed to deepen this transformation. The masterplan envisions that IT is pervasively and effectively used to enhance educational processes and structures to bring about engaged learning of pupils and enabling the "ability-driven" paradigm. Schools are empowered to experiment, optimise, contextualise and integrate the use of IT in deeper levels.
In 2008, MOE launched its third masterplan. It represents a continuum of the vision of the first and second Masterplans i.e. to enrich and transform the learning environments of our students and equip them with the critical competencies and dispositions to succeed in a knowledge economy.
2. Does EdVantage cover adult learning and private education institutions?
EdVantage will consider adult learning and private education institutions at the later stage. In drawing the roadmap to achieve the outcomes, the iN2015 Education and Learning Sub-committee recognises the need to prioritise and focus on the public education system where transformation will have the most impact.
For more information, please send your queries to infoedv@ida.gov.sg.
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