The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are not only a significant factor in the performance and growth of economics, but they also represent a novel and effective tool to help advance sustainable human development. These technologies can provide powerful tools for student learning, but their value depends upon how effectively teachers use them to support instruction. Education leaders agree that all new teachers must graduate from teacher education ...
In a world filled with the producyts of scientific inquiry, scientific literacy has become a necessity for everyone. Everyone needs to use scientific information to make choices that arise every day. Everyone needs to be able to engage intelligently in public discourse and debate about important issues that involve science and technology. And everyone deserves to share in the excitement and personal fulfillment that can come from understanding and learning about ...
The new communication technologies have become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now regard understanding these technologies and mastering the basic skills and concepts of them as part of the core of education, alongside reading, writing, numeracy and functional literacy. This book deals with Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in higher education, and with the changing competencies required of ...