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Item Necessity of Enhancing the Legal Protection for Software: A Sri Lankan Perspective.(Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka., 2017) Pathiraja, P.M.A.S.In the era of knowledge based economy the nation’s economic status mainly depends on the production, distribution,and use of knowledge and information.Intellectual property rights play an important role in this competitive world by protecting the one’s own ideas, designs and products being copied or utilized without the proper authorization. With the development of the technological innovations across the world,the software industry has created the starting point of heated debates over the protection of software in the current intellectual property regime.According to the expanding trends in software industry it is difficult to identify the proper legal regime for its protection.Copyright or patent protection is the most effective way to protect such softwareand some legal systems suggest sui generis system of protection on software in the current context. Software as a literary work or innovation is mainly protected under the Intellectual Property Act no. 36 of 2003 in Sri Lanka.In the domestic scenario,throughout the last few years Sri Lanka has been experiencing high rate of increasing incidents regarding the misappropriation of software and software related inventions because of its vulnerability in the marketplaces.Thereforethis paper discusses the problem of protecting the software in Sri Lanka by analyzing the debate on protecting software through copyrights and patent law and critically discuss the patentability of software under the existing Intellectual Property Law in Sri Lanka.Furthermore it examines the arguments on patenting softwareand expect to make suggestions to strengthen the existing law as an option. This is a qualitative research based on literature review and mainly carried out by the reference of primary and secondary sources such as statutes, International treaties, judicial decisions, academic writings, journal articles and e-sources. The comparative analysis of successful legal position in selected jurisdictions have been followed in reaching the conclusion.Item Teacher Skills required Facilitating ICT Driven Learning(University of Kelaniya, 2005) Ekanayake, M.B.Education is shaping with the advances of new information and communication technologies (ICT). Most countries all over the world have accepted the need of incorporating ICT to promote the quality of learning. Sri Lanka also invests a large amount of funds to provide ICT education and ICT based education. Each of 200,000 teachers are to be equipped with a personal computer by 2009. The purpose of this is to make all teachers use computers in their everyday academic work i.e,. in instructional process and classroom management. The benefit comes to all 2,000,000 students when the plan becomes a reality. Ministry of Education spends a large portion of the total expenditure of the ADB funded Secondary Education Modernization Project on purchasing computers, establishing computer centres, multimedia centres, computer resource centres, laboratories, and training of teachers. In addition, various other activities are also being carried out to modernize the general education system. Purchasing equipment and training teachers in ICT are important to achieve such targets, but is it sufficient for effective learning with advances of new ICT? Past experience about early attempts to incorporate technologies in implementation of the school curriculum proved a failure. Some examples are introducing motion films, educational radio and educational TV. It was forecasted that teacher, black board, and textbooks will be substituted by those technologies. Consequently, spending millions of public money a large number of projects had been designed and implemented, but ended with disappointing results. How do we prepare our teachers in effective use of new ICTs to increase the quality of instructional practices. The results of documentary analysis of training programmes and interviews with eight trainers cum software developers show that the appropriate pedagogical aspects and essential awareness about recent learning theories are lacking in the curriculum used for training teachers. The author suggests that teachers need to be empowered with essential pedagogical skills to get the maximum advantage of the large-scale investment of foreign funds on ICT based education.