The transformation of learning with technology: Learner-centricity, content and tool malleability, and network effects

• Autores: Michael D. Bush, Jonathan D. Mott
• Localización: Educational technology: The magazine for managers of change in education, ISSN 0013-1962, Vol. 49, Nº. 2, 2009, págs. 3-20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Educational visionaries and reformers have long predicted a significant transformation of teaching and learning that would be facilitated by technology, essentially providing every learner with the equivalent of a personal tutor. Technology implementations in education, however, have consistently fallen short of achieving these lofty aims. The authors argue that this failure stems from a penchant to implement technology in ways that automate that past. Instead, we must champion learning technologies that are learner-centric and malleable, such that they address the needs of individual learners and can take advantage of the power of network effects. Only then will we realize the long-awaited transformation