Integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into teaching and learning is a growing area that has attracted many educators’ efforts in recent years. Based on the scope of content covered, ICT integration can happen in three different areas: curriculum, topic, and lesson. This paper elaborates upon the concept of ICT integration, and presents a systematic planning model for guidin...

This paper investigates the accessibility and attractiveness of different types of ICT applications in education for girls and boys and for pupils from families with an ethnic minority background and from the majority population in the Netherlands. A study was conducted in seven schools (primary and secondary). Data were collected on participation, ICT skills and learning results, ICT attitudes...

The 22-page subject index of the report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education (Cochran-Smith and Zeichner, 2006) has no entries referring to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and only two referring to computers. Several chapters remark that teachers should develop ICT skills, but what this actually means is not discussed to any substantial degree. This does not mea...

The purpose of this paper is to find some features to develop the utilization of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in practical classes and derive some findings useful to experts, making ICT applicable in classes. A questionnaire was developed to investigate experts’ views toward integration of ICT in practice classroom. Twenty high school science experts were randomly selected t...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to examine the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in enhancing community outreach, academic and research collaboration, and education and support services (IT-CARES) in an academic setting. METHODS A survey was deployed to assess the ICT needs in an academic setting. The survey was developed using the Delphi methodology. Questionna...

Impact of technology on learning has not been answered clearly many years after the introduction of ICT into classrooms. Today there are optimist and pessimist views regarding the use of ICT in education. Academic research has a position between these two opposing views. Although promising results on benefits of ICT use in education, ICT is not used in teaching in such extend as it could be app...

It is well known that in an era of emerging use of ICT in nursing education and health care it is important to have knowledge of the attitudes towards ICT within the profession. However, nursing students and nurses have been notoriously reluctant to embrace/implement ICT in their work and studies. This paper focuses on the construction of ICT-habitus amongst bachelor nursing students displayed ...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is now common place in the university environment.ICT is an indispensable part of the contemporary world. The field of education has certain ly been affected by the penetrating influence of ICT worldwide and in particular developed countries; ICT has made an impact on the quality and quantity of teaching, learning, and research in the traditional a...