Verified · Aug 20251 min read
● projectActive · national · 2000
Computadores para Educar / Tecnologías para Aprender
National program created by CONPES 3063 (1999) and operating since 2000: it collects and refurbishes donated equipment, delivers it to public school campuses and trains teachers in the pedagogical use of ICT.
illustrative atlas image · Artturi Jalli / UnsplashCPComputadores para Educar (asociación MinTIC - MinEducación - SENA)FBFelipe Barrera-Osorio
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01 The context
Subject of one of the most cited edtech RCTs in the world (Barrera-Osorio and Linden 2009): equipment provision alone had little effect on learning due to lack of pedagogical integration, a finding that redirected the emphasis toward teacher training. In 2025-2026 it was relaunched as Tecnologías para Aprender, with innovation labs and a focus on AI.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
2 published documents support this project. No independent evaluation is in the atlas yet. Know of any? Contribute it.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceThe Use and Misuse of Computers in Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in ColombiaWorld Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4836 · 2009
EvidenceImpacto del programa Computadores para Educar en la deserción estudiantil, el logro escolar y el ingreso a la educación superiorDocumento CEDE, Universidad de los Andes · 2011