ICT in the new National Curriculum for schools in England
The National Curriculum for both primary and secondary schools is currently undergoing a major review – launched by Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education,…
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Conditions for successful innovation – a baker’s dozen checklist
So you think your organisation is “innovative”? Is it really, or are “innovation” and “innovative” a couple of those terms that routinely get bandied around,…
The problem with Balkanisation
In my January pieces in FE News I outlined three technology-in-learning challenges for 2011. Here I comment on the dangers of fragmentation. Unless the Department…
Making sense of a new year for technology in learning
It is customary for people in my kind of role (see below) to provide start-of-year predictions or lists of challenges relating to a particular field,…
ALT to play key role in education and technology agenda
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) will play an important role in meeting the expectations of ICT in education in the near future, the government…
The way forward after Becta
It is too late to save Becta now that the new Conservative-Liberal coalition has signed the warrant. But what can and should be rescued and…