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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Impact on Education and Achievement

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) base research aim to force implementation in education and in teacher’s training programs in Pakistan. It is important to know that how we can we take advantages from this course implementation in the well-known institutes to make the base line strong of under studies so they get flourish and improved their selves in further implementation. Ministry of Education focusing to explore the best practices for mainstreaming pilot projects containing interactive radio instruction (IRI, and how it can be manage and maintain time to time? How illiterate youth can get associate by using ICTs tools, to reach out and to teach? Potentials, Impact of ICTs policies and challenges are the critical factors investigated in pilot schools. Our focus and challenges we face regarding this is to strong ICT policy at education sector, which needs to answer a principal question. This examination contemplates research basic elements, possibilities, difficulties and effect of ICTs approach in schools.

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We authors acknowledge with thanks assistance rendered by Prof. Dr. Javed Anjum Sheikh, University of Lahore, Gujrat Campus for giving us deep insight during the course of the research work which really enhanced the manuscript.

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Dar, M. et al. (2019). Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Impact on Education and Achievement. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 781. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94334-3_6

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