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Since the beginning of this decade, there have been some government-supported initiatives towards the large-scale deployment of tablet computers in public schools districts around the world, such as Thailand, Turkey, India, Singapore, USA, and Brazil. They mostly aim at improving teaching processes and boosting their student’s learning outcomes. However, they have reported problems in the deployment processes, such as disinterest in the device use, and implementation delays or suspensions. In the Brazilian deployment, involving 600,000 tablet computers, there was even refusal among teachers to use the devices. This chapter describes a study focused on the identification of the most important factors that influence a large-scale deployment of tablet computers in the Brazilian public schools, as well as the relationships between them. The study involved the participation of stakeholders in the Brazilian deployment, such as teachers, principals, managers, technicians, and education policymakers, who externalized their respective standpoints on the deployment process. The study employed the Grounded Theory approach, and the result of the study was a list of factors to be considered in a large-scale deployment of tablet computers in a public school district system as the Brazilian one. The chapter presents the success factors and the implementation model for introducing tablet computers in large scale in Brazilian public schools. It can lead to mitigating problems and improving a type of a deployment process barely studied since there are few studies focused on large-scale deployment of tablet computers.
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Farias, G., Ally, M., Spanhol, F.J. (2018). Large-Scale Deployment of Tablet Computers in Brazilian Public Schools: Decisive Factors and an Implementation Model. In: Yu, S., Ally, M., Tsinakos, A. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning. Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6144-8_16
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