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The Implementation of ICT in Secondary Schools in Catalonia
The Implementation of ICT in Secondary Schools in Catalonia

Author(s): Jordi Serarols, Albert Sangrà Morer, Nati Cabrera Lanzo
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education
Published by: European Distance and E-Learning Network
Keywords: E-learning in schools; Institutional case study; Institutional innovation and development, case study; New ICT and media applications in learning

Summary/Abstract: One of the features that characterises our society is that ICT is present worldwide, specially in all productive processes and daily activities [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. In the last decades there have been deep changes, such as the uprise of the world wide web and globalization [6], along with the convergence of new forces, including knowledge tools, thinking tools, digital lifestyles and learning research, that have led to new learning ways to live in the 21st century [7]. Furthermore, Europe today is immersed in a transformation period, due to an important economic crisis that has made the European Union to establish strategies to foster an intelligent, sustainable and integrating economy [8].

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 671-678
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English