Enlaces: The Chilean ICT Experience in Education

This paper presents a concise overview of Enlaces, which is the ICT in Education initiative of the Chilean Educational Reform. Enlaces long term goal is to achieve the harmonic and widespread insertion and use of information and communication technologies into the Chilean educational system, and particularly, into every school’s culture. At the core of the program’s strategy to successfully integrate these technologies to improve teaching and learning opportunities for children in the public school system, lies the training and support offered to classroom teachers as well as the national infrastructure that supports these processes. After successfully incorporating more than five thousand schools over a period of seven years, the new challenges that Enlaces is facing are to increase rural coverage, to train all of the country’s teachers, to improve and expand the technological infrastructure, to increase and update the educational content and services provided over the Internet and to incorporate information technology more fully into educational activities.