New Ways To
Learn
About this report
This Web Report brings together several elements:
- analysis
- case studies
- original research
- references to other research
to ask whether a systematic change is taking place in the
way people learn, arising from the use of information and
communication technology (ICT). If so, are there common
patterns that can be observed? What conclusions can be
drawn, and what recommendations for action follow?
Mediation Technology acknowledges the support of the
British Educational Communications and Technology agency
(BECTa) in completing this report. The views expressed are
those of Mediation Technology.
1. Introduction
The growing use of information and communication
technology (ICT) is affecting business, personal and social
life and even government. Inevitably it is affecting
education too.
Attempts to automate the traditional process of
education, for example by replacing the teacher with a
computer, have not been conspicuously successful. But a new
set of initiatives are emerging worldwide, many of them
based on use of the Internet.
Traditional educational technology, such as the
blackboard, is designed to help the teacher. New technology
focuses on the learner, and it is changing the way people
learn.
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