Abstract

The widespread adoption of information and communications technologies (ICT) in higher education (HE) since the mid 1990s has failed to produce the radical changes in learning and teaching than many anticipated. Activity theory and Rogers' model of the adoption of innovations provide analytic frameworks that help develop our understanding of the actual impact of ICT upon teaching practices. This paper draws on a series of large-scale surveys carried out over a 10 year period with distance education tutors at the UK Open University to explore the changing role of ICT in the work of teachers. It investigates how HE teachers in one large distance learning university have, over time, appropriated ICT applications as teaching tools, and the gradual rather than revolutionary changes that have resulted.

Citation

Kirkup, G. & Kirkwood, A. (2005). Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in Higher Education Teaching--A Tale of Gradualism Rather than Revolution. Learning, Media and Technology, 30(2), 185-199. Retrieved August 13, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/98811/.

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Keywords

• College Faculty
• Computer Uses in Education
• distance education
• Foreign Countries
• information technology
• open universities
• teaching methods
• technology integration
• Telecommunications