Information on world school networking statistics for 19990810 JPNIC EDU Meeting

Information is collected by langner@gmd.de, goto@iq.nanzan-u.ac.jp. Contributions by Prof. Kumiko Aoki (Boston Univ.), And Prof. Kunio Koshigiri (Osaka Kyoiku Univ.)

1. World School and Education Statistics

Statistics at Unesco (*.xls) (http://unescostat.unesco.org/download/downloadYB.html)
Unesco DB search (http://unescostat.unesco.org/database/DBframe.html)
United Nations (http://www.un.org/)
Countries Ranked by Population (localcopy. Sorry forgot the URL, somewhere at US Census Bureau Web)
UN Statistics Division (http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/)
most information isn't free (e.g. Monthly Bulletin of Statistics On-line),
but some free examples under http://www.un.org/Pubs/whatnew/mbsonlin.html
UNESCO educational statistics (broken down by continent) http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/stat/stat_idx.html
Indicators on education http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/edcation.html shows school life expectancy (expected number of years of formal schooling), 1995
UN's pointers to national statistics, many of them on the Web: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/ref.html
Population figures of countries all over the world at the German Statistics Office http://www.statistik-bund.de/basis/d/ausl/ausllae1.html
http://gksoft.com/govt/en/ (Governments on the WWW)

2. Some International Educational Resources

Uni Michigan Document Center - Education (http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/steduc.html)
Non - U.S. Education Systems International Information Sources (http://www.ed.gov/NLE/USNEI/HP2A4.html)
International enrollment statistics etc. (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs/eiip/eiiplt.html)
EURYBASE: educational data for EU-countries (but probably not on networked schools) (http://www.eurydice.org/Eurybase/files/dossier.html)
The OECD Education Database (http://www.oecd.org/els/stats/edu_db/edu_db.html)
- students enrolled: (http://www.oecd.org/cde/EDU_UOE/datasets/RENRL.html)
- teaching personnel: (http://www.oecd.org/cde/EDU_UOE/datasets/RPERS.html)
Worldbank educational resources: (http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/HDNet/HD.nsf/SectorPages/Education?Opendocument)

3. K-12 education and the Internet (by Prof. Aoki)

The following are the list of URLs for those sites which are related to K-12 education and the Internet:

Hot list of K-12 Internet School Sites (http://www.gsn.org/hotlist/index.html)
K-12 Internet and Web Issue (http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/internet_resources/k-12_web.html)
K-12 Internet Resources (http://www.fau.edu/library/k12.html)
K-12 Internet Use Issues (http://www.esc13.tenet.edu/docs/esc/issues.html)
Metaphors, Pitfalls, and Possibilities for Using the Internet in K-12 Education (http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~itp/itpcolloquium/PhilBell/index.html)
National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) Home Page (http://nces.ed.gov/)
ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center (http://www.accesseric.org/)
National Library of Education (http://www.ed.gov/NLE/)
NetDay National (http://www.netday.org/)
American School Directory - Your Interactive Gateway to All 108,000 K-12 Schools (http://www.asd.com/)

4. Initiatives in Europe

The European Experts' Network for Educational Technology (EENet) http://www.eenet.org/ has a report from 1998: "How learning is changing: information and communications technology across Europe. ICT in education policy" http://www.eenet.org/news/documentation/report.pdf
Some national policies in the EU (http://www.en.eun.org/menu/innovation/set-nationalpol.html)

5. Networked Schools

http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html has an international school registry (but e.g. in the case of Germany only a small part of the German schools registered at Schulweb http://www.schulweb.de is also registered here...)
School networks in Europe (http://www.en.eun.org/countries/countries.html)
Educational Servers in Europe (http://www.en.eun.org/menu/innovation/set-poli&proglinks.html)
Several case studies of national initiatives (http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/studies/ir-unes.html)
Cannadian Schools Online (http://www.schoolnet.ca/grassroots/e/schools.online/index.html)
Africa Internet in general (http://www3.sn.apc.org/africa/)