infoDev announces the pre-publication online release of "Using Technology to Train Teachers: Appropriate Uses of ICT for Teacher Professional Development in Developing Countries," a quick introduction and guide to help busy policymakers and practitioners understand and assess the ICT-related investments underway in the education sector.

This handbook is intended to help decision makers in developing-country governments and donor agencies in their efforts to utilize information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve and expand teacher professional development (TPD) activities.

This handbook helps decision makers improve their abilities to:

• Understand the complex relationships between ICT use, professional learning, the change process, types of TPD and classroom implementation so as to aid the development of requests for proposals (RFPs) that address these issues
  Recognize best practices and essential supports in the use of ICTs for TPD in order to evaluate proposals of national, regional, and local scale
• Propose types of TPD and ICT implementations that can achieve specific objectives in relation to educational improvement
• Identify cost considerations, potential partnerships, evaluation requirements and other factors essential to the planning of effective ICT-enabled TPD
• Communicate effectively with researchers, representatives of NGOs, policymakers, donor-agency personnel, and others about the roles played by TPD and ICTs in educational reform

Written in a concise, easy-to-read format, "Using Technology to Train Teachers" is intended as a quick introduction and guide for busy policymakers and practitioners grappling with how to understand and assess the ICT-related investments underway in the education sector.

The publication is available on the infoDev web site at infoDev.org/teacher-training.

This publication is part of infoDev's ICT in Education series.