Inspired by Technology, Driven by Pedagogy
A Systemic Approach to Technology-Based School Innovations
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- Table of contents
- Executive summary
Introduction The need for a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations
- The growing relevance of technology-based school innovations
- Are education systems failing to scale up technology-based innovations?
- Why a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations can be useful
- The agenda on systemic innovation and how this report contributes to it
Part I A changing landscape
Chapter 1 Web 2.0 and the school of the future, today
- What is Web 2.0 and why is it of educational importance?
- Acknowledging the realities of Web 2.0 use in the school of today
- Popular solutions for overcoming the “problem” of schools in a Web 2.0 world
- Towards a more reasoned response to Web 2.0 and the school of the future
- Conclusion: Towards a more critical understanding of Web 2.0, schools and schooling
Chapter 2 Can digital learning resources spur innovation?
- Background, objectives and methodological approach
- Main findings
- Government-initiated innovations
- Innovations initiated by commercial actors
- Bottom-up innovations
- Looking at the future of DLR
- Conclusions and policy implications
- Appendix 2.A Cases studied in the DLR project
- + Chapter 1 Web 2.0 and the school of the future, today
Part II How technology-based innovations are monitored, assessed and scaled up
Part III Promising avenues for research
- + Chapter 5 The third lever: Innovative teaching and learning research
Chapter 6 Design research on technology-based innovations
- Curriculum: What’s in a name?
- The vulnerable curriculum spider web
- Perspectives on substantive choices
- Development strategies
- The potential of curriculum design research
- Features of curriculum design research
- Emphasis on formative evaluation
- Generalisation of curricular design research findings
- + Conclusion Lessons learnt and policy implications
This report highlights key issues to facilitate understanding of how a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations can contribute to quality education for all while promoting a more equal and effective education system. It focuses on the novel concept of systemic innovation, as well as presenting the emerging opportunities to generate innovations that stem from Web 2.0 and the important investments and efforts that have gone into the development and promotion of digital resources. It also shows alternative ways to monitor, assess and scale up technology-based innovations. Some country cases, as well as fresh and alternative research frameworks, are presented. Today, sufficient return on public investments in education and the ability to innovate are more important than ever. This was the conclusion of the international conference on “The School of Tomorrow, Today” organised by the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation with the support of the Secretariat of Education of the State Santa Catarina (Brazil), in November 2009. The conference and this resulting report share the overall goal of addressing the issue of how education systems achieve technology-based innovations.