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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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Section: 1 - Introduction


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