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Yulin Zhao; Junke Li; Kai Liu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Information technology is a significant action to promote education informatization. Currently, there are numerous literature studies on information technology education, but existing research lacks a comparative summary of the research status, research hot spots, and research trend of information technology in China and abroad from an overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Information Technology
Lorenceau, Adrien; Marec, Camille; Mostafa, Tarek – OECD Publishing, 2019
This paper explains the rationale for updating the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2021 questionnaire on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and shows how it covers policy topics of current relevance. After presenting key findings based on previous ICT-related PISA data, the paper provides a summary of the…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Information Technology, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
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Karamti, Chiraz – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2016
Measuring the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is a contemporary question of interest. Despite the general acceptance that ICTs are changing ways of learning, empirical research conducted to date does not consistently verify the efficacy of such changes. Several studies supporting positive impacts of ICTs on achievement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Influence of Technology, Academic Achievement
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Selwyn, Neil – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, schools micro-computing in the UK developed from being a niche "hobbyist" activity to a prominent, officially mandated element of the national education system. Drawing on in-depth interviews with key actors of the time, this paper outlines the initial varied interpretations of schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Information Technology, Educational Policy
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Elmas, Muzaffer – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2013
Using technology in and out of class has been becoming more and more important recently. University settings also become more dependent to technology. Bologna process requires university and faculty diffuse and disseminate information quickly. In this research it is aimed to examine faculty use of information technology in bologna process in the…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Student Mobility, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Livingstone, Sonia – Oxford Review of Education, 2012
In both schools and homes, information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely seen as enhancing learning, this hope fuelling their rapid diffusion and adoption throughout developed societies. But they are not yet so embedded in the social practices of everyday life as to be taken for granted, with schools proving slower to change their…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Information Technology, Evidence, Educational Policy
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Nasah, Angelique; DaCosta, Boaventura; Kinsell, Carolyn; Seok, Soonhwa – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2010
Research suggests students' use of information and communication technology (ICT) may be more a matter of digital literacy and access rather than a generational trait. We sought to identify ICT preferences of post-secondary students (N = 580) through a Digital Propensity Index (DPI), investigating communication methods, Internet practices and the…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Age Differences, Gender Differences, Socioeconomic Status
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Fidalgo-Neto, A. A.; Tornaghi, A. J. C.; Meirelles, R. M. S.; Bercot, F. F.; Xavier, L. L.; Castro, M. F. A.; Alves, L. A. – Computers & Education, 2009
Brazil is a developing country that has undergone important changes at the social, economic, scientific and educational levels. A main policy challenge at present is related to the unequal distribution of vital resources, including technology. In the educational context, many changes have been observed, such as a decrease in analphabetism and an…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Samuelsson, Ulli – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
Swedish children have grown up in a digital culture, but have internalized information and communication technology (ICT) in different ways and gained most of their knowledge by peer-based learning. The aim of this study is to give an empirical understanding of patterns of ICT use among Swedish children. The data are collected through a survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Municipalities
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Ofulue, Christine I. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to bridge the communication gap between teacher and learner has been identified as a major characteristic of Open and Distance Learning (ODL). In many developing counties, including Nigeria, several barriers prevent OD learners from maximising the potentials of ICTs to enhance their learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Literacy, Distance Education, Barriers
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Sanchez, Jaime; Salinas, Alvaro – Computers & Education, 2008
By the early nineties a Chilean network on computers and education for public schools had emerged. There were both high expectancies that technology could revolutionize education as well as divergent voices that doubted the real impact of technology on learning. This paper presents an evaluation of the Enlaces network, a national Information and…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Nycyk, Michael; Redsell, Margaret – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2007
Influencing government policy in adult learning areas requires consistent efforts in having findings noticed by educational policymakers. Submissions by Adult Learning Australia and researchers have called for unified educational policies and practices across Australia. This paper argues that, whilst it is important to address macro issues of…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Adult Learning, Older Adults, Information Technology
Mangan, J. Marshall – 1992
This research project brings a critical perspective to the examination of computer literacy as an ideological form through a study of the reactions of high school teachers and students. On-site interviews with teachers and students found both acceptance of and resistance to the message of adjustment to an inevitable future of vocational and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Automation, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
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Sakamoto, Takashi – Education and Computing, 1992
The introduction of informatics into the national school curriculum in Japan requires changes to educational policy, curricula, methods, facilities, etc. Although the basic functions of the school--i.e., to transmit the culture and to cultivate competencies that will allow a future society to develop--remain unchanged, new technologies change the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Eraut, Michael – 1989
Intended to clarify the nature of the curriculum debate and to indicate the issues that need to be considered when formulating curriculum policy, this paper begins with a review of the educational reasons for using the New Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) and the thinking and experiences which lie behind them. Ways in which the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Curriculum Design
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