E-schooling

<p><em>E-schooling: Global Messages from a Small Island </em>looks at how an entire school system is starting to transform learning through ICT. It is based on an evaluation of ICT work in a wide range of schools in Northern Ireland and askes what it takes to change learning through technology in what we call 'e-schooling'. </p><p>The book sets analyzes and suggests answers to two key questions:</p><ul> <li>can the intervention of government and the forging of strategic alliances with providers of education and of technology bring about systemic change? </li> <li>without radical reform of curriculum assessment and learning are computers any more than a frill?</li> </ul><p>The authors an education technology strategist and inspector and a teacher education specialist map out the complexities for those involved in teaching training and evaluating in what is probably one of the most far reaching changes to education ever seen.</p><p>This book puts the spotlight on the costs and benefits of e-schooling and asks some hard-hitting questions of those involved in educating young people in schools at the start of the twenty-first century.</p>