Cambodian ICT Masterplan 2020
13. e-Education Services
13.1 Introduction
Cambodia has various long-term plans for education (e.g., National Strategic Development Plan
2014-2018, Master Plan for ICT in Education 2009-2013, The Education for All National Plan 20032015) and well-organized school systems.
However, the school completion rate has dropped down as the educational level goes up due to
weak educational infrastructure including weak educational network among schools. E-School is
a candidate to improve the educational infrastructure with respect to ICT.
e-Learning may be an alternative to make up the shortfall in current education systems. Low
recognition of e-learning, a scarcity of localized education contents, few e-learning courses offered
are current obstacles for e-learning to become popular.
Since e-learning, as a supplementary channel to provide education, is a good method for
distance learning as well as for enhancing the educational levels of the public, e-learning must be
invigorated and supported in a long-term plan.
13.2 Objectives
The objectives to promote Cambodia’s e-Education are divided into two parts.
First, the information including personal information (students, teachers, staff), student records,
activities, is digitalized. Based on the digitized information, certificates including students’ records
from educational institutions are able to be issued in any place of Cambodia. All public schools
provide school, curriculum, teachers’ information on their own website and support two-way
communications between schools and parents. Additionally, a library information network within
the entire Cambodia is established.
Second, the infrastructure and the environment such as policies, rules and regulations are ready
to be used for e-learning. The level of awareness in economic population is improved to above the
average of ASEAN countries, and the education level in entire population is improved to above
the average of ASEAN countries.
13.3 Enabling e-School Services
The concept of e-school contains e-learning in broad aspect, but the scope of e-school in this plan
sets limits to digitalized information at school. Thus e-school represents that all information is
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