IMPLEMENTING ICT IN EDUCATION — MORE THAN BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE?

Limin Gu and Ola Lindberg
Department of Education
Mid Sweden University
Sweden

Since 1994 Sweden has carried out a number of initiatives for integrating ICT into education that are funded by the Government and other actors. Huge amounts of money have been invested in developing infrastructure. However, it seems that there is still a gap between the claims for ICT use in education and the current practice of using ICT in classroom. The intention of this paper is to present and analyze potential “barriers” that have brought about the ineffective use of ICT in classroom and to provide some backgrounds for suggesting models of Technology Enhanced Teacher Professional Development.

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