The learner-centered paradigm of education requires very different roles for technology, as well as for teachers and students, compared with the teacher-centered paradigm. Rather than almost exclusively serving the teacher for teaching, technology primarily serves the student for learning. It does so through four major roles: (1) keeping records…

The Bloomington Project School (BPS) is a charter school that has successfully adopted and implemented several learner-centered educational strategies. This case study offers a glimpse into its student-centered, collaborative, and interdisciplinary learning and teaching processes; its mastery-based assessment process; and its successful technology…

Information and communications technology (ICT) is affecting every part of our society. Education is no exception, but here the impact of ICT is fragmented at best. The purpose of this article is to conceptualize and develop the idea of the smart classroom that integrates emerging information technologies with advanced pedagogies. System…

The purpose of this article is to examine some of the problems and arguments'' against behavioral objectives'' and to suggest a modified approach to objectives and measurement that hopefully will be acceptable to behaviorists and humanists alike.'' (Author)

Two positions representing marked philosophic differences related to instructional media are described. (Author)

Discusses interactivity in Web-based learning and provides a framework of interaction attributes that can be used to select strategies and tactics to facilitate interaction on the Web. Topics include interaction with content; social interaction; instructor-centered approach; student-centered approach; collaboration; conversation; intrapersonal…

A discussion of student contracting, a plan whereby a teacher and a student or a group of students make an agreement that a certain amount of work is to be completed in a certain amount of time. (Author/HB)

The author explores the central goals of the open education movement and suggests that if the movement is to achieve these goals it must make use of educational technology. (AK)

A discussion of an experiment on learner controlled instruction as opposed to teacher controlled instruction in math and physics instruction. (HB)

While the open education movements and educational technology are often seen as mutually hostile, the challenge in education for the future is to find ways to develop the full range of each individual's capacities and of doing so while putting control of the learning process as much as possible in the learner's hands: for educational technology,…

An approach for developing competencies in media with a student centered, multimedia approach using modular learning units is described. (Author)