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Description
ICICTE 2009 will seek to address the many challenges and new directions presented by technological innovations in educational settings. With the keynote speaker, plenary sessions, workshops, and forums examining the integration of technology into all facets of education, the conference will provide participants with a forum for intensive interdisciplinary interaction and collegial debate. Those attending ICICTE 2009 will leave with an excellent overview of current thinking and practices in applications of technology to education. Thematic streams will include alternative processes, procedures, techniques and tools for creating learning environments appropriate for the twenty-first century.
Conference themes include:
Institutional and national responses to technological change
Political economy and educational technology: Intersections
The architecture of learning; accessibility; the evolution of the classroom
Pedagogy in the evolving tech environment
Informal and formal adult education
Multi-grade education
Instructional design and delivery; evaluation and assessment
Strategies and tools for teaching and learning, simulations and gaming
Effects on training institutions and industry
Impacts on educational institutions: effects on faculty, staff, administration, and students; curriculum and program development
Intellectual property
Ethical considerations in the use of information technology in teaching and learning
The internationalization of institutions and of education
Open/Distance learning
Building communities of teachers/educators; cooperative learning
Teacher training
The use of technology in education to promote democratic ideals, freedom, equality.