paper writen and presented by: Dr. Josep Rota and Dr. sandra Turner OHIO University Abstarct A central premise of this presentation is that higher education is undergoing a paradigm shift as we change our conception of a university is a place of teaching and replace it with a new model of a university as a place of learning. Central to this change are three key elements: (1) the role that the new technologies...

The history of collecting meaningful data about the use of IT (ICT) in schools is relatively short. Microcomputers have been used in schools since 1979. The first survey carried out by the Department of Education and Science (DES) in the UK was in March 1990, the results being published as a Statistical Bulletin in June 1991. Mr Aston’s report provided a historical summary of the conduct of impact studies...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now regard understanding ICT and mastering the basic skills and concepts of ICT as part of the core of education, alongside reading, writing and numeracy. One of UNESCO’s overriding aims is to ensure that all countries, both developed and developing, have...

Education is an important thing for everyone to exploit his potential, to develop his knowledge, skill, character, and for every nation to build its civilization. It is the obligation of every nation to provide quality education for its people. This issue of education and distribution of knowledge is very topical and important for every nation in this world represented in Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...

The capacity of Information and Communications Technology to act as a catalyst of change (both positive and negative) in the realm of education is irrefutable. The concern, however, in most of the developing world is the potentially high cost of implementing ICT in education and a distinctive lack of empirical evidence of the success of such implementation. The existence of infrastructure in and of itself is...