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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131643603321

Autore

Van Assche Frans

Titolo

Re-engineering the Uptake of ICT in Schools / / edited by Frans Van Assche, Luis Anido, David Griffiths, Cathy Lewin, Sarah McNicol

Pubbl/distr/stampa

©2015

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

9783319193663 (PDF)

9783319193656 (hardback)

9783319366036 (paperback)

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 201 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

005.7

Soggetti

Computers

Education

Information Systems and Communication Service

Education, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom (iTEC) -- Development of the Future Classroom Toolkit -- Designing Edukata, a Participatory Design Model for Creating Learning Activities -- The iTEC Technical Artefacts, Architecture and Educational Cloud -- The Composer: Creating, Sharing and Facilitating Learning Designs -- Recommender Systems -- Resources beyond Content for Open Education -- The iTEC Widget Store -- The Impact and Potential of iTEC: Evidence from large-scale Validation in School Classrooms.

Sommario/riassunto

This book reports on a novel and comprehensive approach to the uptake of ICT in Schools. It focuses on key questions, pedagogically sound ways of introducing ICT, new technical artifacts supporting the approach, the evaluation in a large-scale validator, and future work. While many innovations in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) have emerged over the last two decades, the uptake of these innovations has not always been very successful, particularly in schools. The transition from proof of concept to integration into learning activities has been



recognized as a bottleneck for quite some time. This major problem, which is affecting many TEL stakeholders, is the focus of this book which focuses on developing a more effective and efficient approach based on more than 2500 pilots in European classrooms. Teachers, head teachers, and policy makers may benefit from reading how novel learning scenarios can be elaborated, adapted to a local context, and implemented in the classroom; how new technologies can support this process for teachers and their national/regional communities; how teachers and other stakeholders can be educated in such a re-engineering process; how the approach can be scaled up through MOOCs, ambassador schemes, and train-the-trainer programs; how future classroom labs can inspire teachers, head teachers, and policy makers; how teachers and, above all, learners can become more engaged in learning through the adoption of the iTEC approach. Readers with a more technical focus may also be interested in the discussion of recommender systems, the flexible provision of resources and services, the deployment of the cloud in schools, and systems for composing technological support for lesson plans.