Educational change is a fact of life for teachers across the world, as schools are subjected to constant and ubiquitous pressures to innovate. And yet many school practices remain remarkably persistent in the face of such innovation. This paradox of innovation without change is perplexing for policymakers and practitioners alike. This paper investigates the gap between policy and practice, betw...

the purpose of the study was to identify and prioritize the educational needs and support needed by agricultural extension agents in isfahan, islamic republic of iran. the target population for the study consisted of s3 agricultural extension agents in isfahan province. census population were used therefore, sampling procedures were not utilized and genera i izability of the results was lim...

The article aims to provide a critical perspective on the ongoing Information and Communication Technologies’ application in education, analyzing the development of technology-based school innovations and their effective implementation. It presents an evaluation case study referred to an Italian government program for teachers’ professional development aimed to develop and to improve the educat...

This paper identifies key elements of the broader processes that contributed to the implementation of an educational innovation involving streaming video. Streaming video was used to support the learning of first year student nurses on a Life Sciences module. The use of streaming video was one of several innovations within the module designed to expand the range of learning resources available ...

Pressure to change business education is rising. Lectures, where students listen to an expert academic should be the exception rather than the rule. A reliance on passive learning tasks reflects an informationtransmission concept of teaching which produces inferior learning outcomes. Incorporating new learning and assessment tasks can improve learning outcomes. Since technology is one source of...

This paper explores ways that open and social technologies relate to educational transformation, analysing three case studies of exemplar schoolbased projects. Schools in England have been asked to develop ‘educational transformation’. Although there is no single definition, aspects of community and social interactions and networking are intended, as is development of appropriate uses of digita...

This paper presents our experience in developing an online curriculum dedicated to promoting the use of social media in an educational context on a European scale. We describe ‘social media based learning’ as a new form of using old technology. Our focus is not based on the technology itself but rather the engagement with technology that positions this as a social innovation. The term “social i...