Education
system and institutional changes that afford opportunities for
teaching/learning
improvements
If
ICT is introduced into an education system or an education institution
which does not make changes in response to the opportunities that
the ICT affords, there will be little real change in teaching and
learning
and the benefits of ICT will not be gained.
Changing education systems and institutions is hard and takes time.
Many fear that the education of the students might suffer if new
approaches are adopted.
A
key problem in this area is that, unless changes are made in assessment,
it is very difficult for the curriculum to adapt to the new ICT-rich
environment in learning and society and very difficult for teachers
to change what they do to any great extent.
We
are all learning about the education system and institutional changes
that it is possible to make, to improve learning in ICT-rich environments.
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