ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 10

Consideration of the human development indices in Asian countries

  • Author:
  • Akbar Khodabakhshi, Zeinab Khodabakhshi
  • Total Page Count: 14
  • Page Number: 43 to 56

*Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

**Islamic Azad University of Hamadan, Hamedan, Iran.

Online published on 9 October, 2012.

Abstract

Since 1990 human development index become criteria to measure level of development for countries by United Nations Organization. There are three important indices in this measuring as health, income and education. Education is one of three of these indices that have some elements like as using of internet, mean years of schooling, adult literacy and expected years of schooling. In recent years increasing interest in using electronic networks and making use of the way it played an extensive education in different forms have been established in the most countries. Now a day direct and indirect impact of the Internet and information technology on learning, teaching and its effect on reducing educational costs has become a significant subject for any society or any citizen of country. The growth of Internet users as one of the important components in defining the criteria of the Education smart if what has been far from this index in comparison with developed countries, but the distance during the recent years are far less than the decade since the beginning of 2000. In this investigation by using of the trend of the indices in sample countries which we will study from Asian countries and the condition of the other important criteria defined education based on the present world supply. This article reviews the role of the Internet development of education in Asian countries which divided tow groups, developed and less-developed countries. In this consider we will try to answer these key questions that Internet and the electronic media can and will affect the educational process in the present and future in countries with different level of development in Asia.

Keywords

Human Resources Development (HRD), Education Index, Internet users Index, Per Capita Income Index