文档介绍：Information munication Technology (ICT) use in teaching and learning practices in Western Cape higher education institutions (In press) Special Issue of Perspectives in Education. “Education in South Africa: what have Information munication Technologies (ICTs) got to do with it?” Czerniewicz, L., and Hodgkinson-Williams, C. (Eds) (2005)
Laura Czerniewicz and Cheryl Brown
Introduction
This article reports on some of the findings of a regional study into the access and use of Information munication Technologies (ICTs) in five higher education institutions This survey is ponent of the larger HictE (Information munication Technologies in Higher Education) Research Project, which is a cross institutional Carnegie funded project.
. While the findings on access are reported elsewhere Further details are on the panying website, also see Czerniewicz and Brown (2005) “Access to ICT for teaching and learning: From single artefact to inter-related resources” in IJEDICT, //
, our attention here is on use. In this paper we describe how and to what extent ICTs are being used as part of teaching or learning in higher education institutions in the Western Cape.
Our focus is on the way technologies are being used in conjunction with specific teaching strategies, to support particular learning experiences. The questions we answer in this paper are, “How are ICTs being used as part of teaching and learning events in higher education in the Western Cape?”, “To what extent are ICTs being used as part of teaching and learning events in higher education in the Western Cape?”, and “How are ICTs being used by specific groups as part of particular teaching and learning events?”
South African higher education institutions are spending more on ICTs than previously, despite their ever-increasing resource constraints (Czerniewicz, Brown & Mlitwa 2005). At the same time there is evidence of growth in and rapid take up of ICTs in higher education in