Impacts of ICT in education. The role of the teacher and teacher training
Research method
This paper will discuss the questions concerning ICT and education (not ICT in occupational practice). Several methods of data collection were used for this component of the project.
As described in the first paragraph, the main research question concerned the future learning environment and the teacher’s prospective role. To know more about this future, several scenarios on future developments in education have been studied. Because many scenarios have already been completed, we did not perform our own study, but used the available literature (e.g. Ter Woude, 1996, Van den Dool e.a., 1998, Pilot e.a., 1996). Published studies were scanned especially for the role and impact of ICT. Furthermore, experts were heard about this topic. We gathered additional information on the role of the teacher by visiting schools where ICT is already being used ‘extensively’. Information on organisational level was gathered and interviews were conducted with teachers. These interviews were aimed AT the teacher’s tasks, roles and required competences to fulfil these tasks and roles properly. In addition, literature on job profiles of teachers and implementation literature was studied.