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Hof, Barbara; Bürgi, Regula – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
Computer education was an integral part of curriculum development and a priority of the OECD's policy agenda at the turn of the 1970s. Based on an analysis of archival documents, programme overviews and publications, this article describes how the introduction of computers in the classroom was advocated by the OECD and, more specifically, how this…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Curriculum Development, International Organizations, Educational History
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Lunde, Ida M.; Ottesen, Eli – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Increasingly, school leaders and teachers are being expected to use digital technologies to collect data to analyze, plan and organize teaching and learning. Such expectations can be traced to a number of policy initiatives over the last decade. This study is concerned with how educational policy puts forward ambitions of digital school leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Computer Uses in Education, Leadership
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Hodgson, Naomi; Ramaekers, Stefan – Ethics and Education, 2020
In recent years a tightening of safeguarding legislation and protocols that overlap with anti-terror legislation have given particular shape to discourses and practices of risk management and early intervention, particularly in early childhood education and parenting. Such developments have taken place in a context in which digital technology has…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Information Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Parents
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Lewin, Cathy; Niederhauser, Dale; Johnson, Quinn; Saito, Toshinori; Sakamoto, Akira; Sherman, Roger – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2021
Cyber-wellness concerns positive wellbeing in online spaces, including awareness of how to behave appropriately and protect oneself. We explain and illustrate the complex nature of cyber-wellness, focusing on four key aspects. Firstly, developing students' information and media literacy skills is essential for promoting cyber-wellbeing. Such…
Descriptors: Responsibility, Safety, Risk, Internet
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Ellery Sills – College Composition and Communication, 2018
This article offers a genealogy of the deliberative policymaking of the WPA Outcomes Statement 3.0 Revision Task Force. Interviews with Task Force members reveal that the revised statement presents "composing," "technology," and "genre" as "boundary objects," in order to preserve the document's…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Multimedia Materials, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Schleicher, Andreas – OECD Publishing, 2019
This report discusses policies and practices that shape quality and equity in early childhood education and care. It examines how the work environment, including the educational background of staff, and the policies that shape teaching approaches affect the quality of the education provided to our youngest learners. The book concludes with an…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Equal Education
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Helm, Francesca – Research-publishing.net, 2018
The long and winding road is a metaphor for a journey, often used to describe life journeys and the challenges encountered. The metaphor was used for the title of my keynote to refer both to the journey towards the current position of virtual exchange in education policy -- but also the long road ahead. This paper aims to explore the emergence of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Computer Uses in Education, International Educational Exchange, Intercultural Communication
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Mendez, María-Eugenia; Valdez-Jiménez, Liliana; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Fonseca-Ramirez, Oscar-Hernan; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodriguez-Ramirez, Sergio-Esteban; Alvarez-Gomez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesus; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2019
The intention of the present paper is to show that people have a series of educational needs in the era of information, so that they can become competent digital citizens. These educational needs are evident in the policies promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which were well known to Latin American…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Needs, Educational Change, Latin Americans
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Moon, Bob; Villet, Charmaine – Journal of Learning for Development, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa, more than any other part of the world, is experiencing a crisis in finding sufficiently qualified teachers to meet the needs of expanding school systems. The professional development support provided to serving teachers is also inadequate in most countries. The most recent data on learner outcomes has revealed a worrying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Educational Policy, Inservice Teacher Education
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Beech, Jason; Artopoulos, Alejandro – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
This article argues that certain established vocabularies that are used to interpret the circulation of educational discourse and its transformation in different settings have significant limitations to capture the complexity inherent to new geographies of power/knowledge in education and that, consequently, we need to develop new concepts to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Social Theories, Social Networks, Comparative Education
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Hyland, Áine – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
This paper is based on the recollections of its author of the work of the Investment in Education team from its inauguration in summer 1962 until the completion of its work in early 1965. The author was a research assistant to the team throughout the period of the study and was directly involved in the collection and analysis of the data on which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Policy, Research Reports
Altass, Patricia; Wiebe, Sean – Online Submission, 2017
New digital technologies are changing the nature and contexts of work in Canada. It is essential that education policy and practice acknowledge and respond to these changes. The impacts and implications of new and emerging technologies for work can be summarized within two paradigms: technology is replacing work through automation and digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personnel Management, Automation, Fundamental Concepts
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Lennon, Sean M. – Educational Forum, 2013
Online social networks such as Facebook have changed the context and definitions of socialization. Focusing on teacher use, this article considers the size and impact of these forums and the importance many young professionals feel toward them. Themed as a common sense approach, the author uses anecdotal points and discussions with…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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James, Jeffrey – Social Indicators Research, 2011
This paper studies the distribution of computer use in a comparison between two of the most dominant suppliers of low-cost computers for education in developing countries (partly because they involve diametrically opposite ways of tackling the problem). The comparison is made in the context of an analytical framework which traces the changing…
Descriptors: Income, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Use, Technology Integration
Hora, Matthew Tadashi; Holden, Jeremiah Isaac – Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (NJ1), 2012
Given the primacy of instructional technology in today's college classroom, it is important to understand how faculty use these tools, especially how they adapt specific tools to meet the unique needs of particular faculty or instructional situations. Instructional designers and policymakers face the challenge of introducing innovations into…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making
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