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Tomczyk, Lukasz; Jáuregui, Vladimir Costas; de La Higuera Amato, Cibelle Albuquerque; Muñoz, Darwin; Arteaga, Magali; Oyelere, Solomon Sunday; Akyar, Özgür Yasar; Porta, Mariana – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The aim of the article is to highlight the key elements related to the implementation of new technologies in education from the perspective of the opinions and experiences of educators in the field in Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Poland, Turkey, and Uruguay. The text compares issues related to attitudes towards the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Technology Integration
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Niemi, Hannele; Kynaslahti, Heikki; Vahtivuori-Hanninen, Sanna – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
The article discusses how to strengthen educational use of information and communication technology (ICT) in Finnish schools. The conceptions and experiences of the successful integration of ICT in everyday school settings are reported. Participant observations in 20 schools in different parts of Finland were carried out, including discussions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Participant Observation
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Baran, Evrim – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Mobile devices have become attractive learning devices for education. While the majority of the existing research has focused primarily on the value of mobile learning for students, researchers have recently started exploring its potentials within teacher development. The present qualitative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research aimed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Teacher Education, Qualitative Research
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Sipila, Keijo – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences between 99 Finnish primary and secondary teachers in their frequency and nature of information and communication technology (ICT) use, levels of ICT implementation, functional uses and perceived values about educational use of ICT. Design/methodology/approach: The data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Information Technology
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Sipila, Keijo – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Finnish primary and secondary schools has been increasing for the last decade, but the full potential of the new technology has not been achieved; pedagogical thinking in educational institutes has not advanced in parallel with technological advances. Teachers' attitudes towards the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Information Technology, Gender Differences
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Valtonen, Teemu; Kukkonen, Jari; Dillon, Patrick; Vaisanen, Pertti – Computers & Education, 2009
The Finnish high school system in rural areas is facing challenges because of a decreasing number of the students. This situation places new emphasis on online learning. Online learning offers new possibilities for high schools to provide equal learning opportunities for their students. This paper explores students' readiness to adapt their…
Descriptors: High Schools, Online Courses, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Papanastasiou, Elena C. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2003
The purpose of this study was to examine how variables related to computer availability, computer comfort and educational software are associated with higher or lower levels of science literacy in the USA, Finland and Mexico, after controlling for the socio-economic status of the students. The analyses for this study were based on a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computers, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education