Abstract
This article analyses the field of research on information and communication technology (ICT) in education. It reviews the results of ICT researches carried out in the world. First, the article presents the retrospective of researches on ICT implementation into education. Summarizing them, it reviews main research findings in five areas of ICT implementation: 1) the impact of ICT use on students achievements and attitudes; 2) the impact of ICT use on teachers; 3) the effect of teachers' factors and instructional methods on ICT efficiency; 4) the influence of infrastructure and organizational factors on ICT efficiency; 5) the effect of specific software design features. Then, the paper reviews the main recent and future directions of researches on ICT in education, in the world. Finally, it shortly reviews the most important future directions of ICT research and development in Lithuania. The article concludes that in spite of numerous ICT studies worldwide the national research and experiments have to be carried out in order to implement ICT in an appropriate for Lithuania and efficient way.
Highlights
The implementation of information technology into education is being researched for more than twenty years
All that demonstrates that various national researches of ICT implementation into education are necessary for the cost-effective, meaningful, and successful implementation of national strategies (Informacijos . . ., 2000; Mokyklu . . ., 2002a) and programs (Informacijos . . ., 2002; Mokyklu . . ., 2002b) for ICT implementation into Lithuanian secondary schools
The review of the ICT research results shows that the following aspects of ICT implementation into the process of education have been analysed most frequently: 1) the impact of ICT use on students achievements and attitudes; 2) the impact of ICT use on teachers; 3) the effect of teachers’ factors and instructional decisions on ICT efficiency; 4) the infrastructure characteristics and organizational factors; 5) the effect of specific software design features
Summary
The implementation of information technology into education is being researched for more than twenty years. The goal of this article is to analyse and summarize global experience of research on ICT implementation in education It aims to demonstrate a variety of previous and present researches and their findings. This article gives a short retrospective of researches in the field of new technologies in education It separates out the main types of investigations on ICT implementation into education. It synthesizes the results and presents a review of the main and most typical findings in each field of ICT research. It discusses the most recent issues of ICT research in the world and in Lithuania and draws the conclusions
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