Session Information
16 SES 06 B, ICT in Schools (part 2)
Symposium, Continued from 16 SES 05 B
Contribution
Between 2003- 2005, we conducted for the British Educational and Communications Agency (Becta) a series of case studies in schools which used videoconferencing as a regular part of their curriculum. We identified key factors associated with its educationally effective use, as well as those which acted as barriers to curriculum integration. Our studies indicate that videoconferencing is associated with highly effective educational outcomes as a consequence of the real-time, face-to-face encounters which set it apart from other communications technologies. Despite a series of reports which publicised these benefits and other school-based accounts which confirm our findings, videoconferencing remains something of a ‘Cinderella’ technology when compared with ICT more generally, both in terms of patterns of use and with respect to research into its educational potential. We explore reasons why in many schools videoconferencing is much less integrated into the curriculum than other technologies and propose strategies for moving videoconferencing into the mainstream of educational life. In doing so, we draw upon data gathered in follow-up visits to some of the schools that we visited five years ago, in which we investigate the extent to which good practices have been sustained and what factors have helped or hindered progression.
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