We discuss the context, conception, implementation, and research used to refine and evaluate a systemic model for fostering technology integration in teacher education. The Learning Generation model identifies conditions where innovations for using technology emerge in small group dialogues. The model uses a multifaceted implementation with programmatic reform, enhanced infrastructure, technolo...

CULTURE AND SOCIETY St ig H ja rv ar d “Stig Hjarvard has through the last decade been a leading scholar in the emerging research on mediatization of culture and society. In this book he synthesizes his theory and makes his extensive work accessible in one English volume. He refines his institutional approach to changes in the media and in social and cultural areas that more and more take on me...

Turnover also creates stress because the remaining employees must get the job done while sometimes under-staffed because an end-user support technician or programmer quit, was laid off, or was fired. When a key project team member walks out the door, the knowledge of systems and technical experience that he or she brought to the project are also gone. This often means project delays, quality de...

The objective of this workshop was to discuss current tools and environments for learning object-oriented concepts and to share ideas and experiences about the usage of computer support to teach the basic concepts of object technology. Workshop participants presented current and ongoing research. During the discussions the participants developed a general “package” of requirements for such tool...

A Infrastructural and societal changes intertwine in multiple ways. This makes the societal implications of infrastructural projects difficult to assess and anticipate. Yet in present day network societies this task is particularly urgent. This paper first identifies two positions that tend to monopolize and deadlock debates. Next it examines two decades of research in the Large Technica...

This paper describes a plan to combine IT support for major tertiary hospitals through to independent GPs under a single application support provider. The objectives of the centre being to improve coordination between health providers, reduce GP IT support problems, provide access to Web skills to all players in order to support a thin client model for health IT