In its second decade of education reform and its third cycle of national ICT master plans, Thailand struggles to transform its aspirations into practice. This paper chronicles three decades of Thailand's ICT national plans and their relation to education reform. It also discusses the effect of global trends, Asian cultures, and Thai cultures on…

To study the extent to which environment affects or controls learning and communication, an exploratory case study examined the effects of a "novel" classroom environment on student and teacher interaction within the classroom. Freshman students in a traditional expository writing and speaking course at a large midwestern university met…