Share Paper: Don’ts and Do’s for ICT in Teaching and Learning: What Does the Research Say?

  1. Paul Kirschner, Open Universiteit, Netherlands

Abstract: Abstract : Mark Twain once said that “In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand and without examination”. Unfortunately this is also true in present day education, especially with respect to the use of multimedia (MM) and other information and communication technologies (ICTs). We see this not only in schools and universities, but also in teacher education and teacher training. Educational technologists, educational reformers, instructional designers, local and federal politicians, teachers, school managers, and advisory groups are all jockeying to show how innovative and up to date they can be, based ...