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ICICTE 2006 will seek to address the many challenges and new directions presented by technological innovations in educational settings. With the keynote speaker, plenary sessions, workshops, and forums examining the integration of technology into all facets of education, the conference will provide participants with a forum for intensive interdisciplinary interaction and collegial debate. Those attending ICICTE 2006 will leave with an excellent overview of current thinking and practices in applications of technology in education. Thematic streams will include alternative processes, procedures, techniques and tools for creating learning environments appropriate for the twenty-first century.
Conference themes include:
Institutional and national responses to technological change;
The architecture of learning, accessibility, the evolution of the classroom;
Pedagogy in the evolving tech environment;
Informal and formal adult education;
Multi-grade education;
Instructional design and delivery, evaluation and assessment;
Strategies and tools for teaching and learning, simulations and gaming;
Effects on training institutions and industry;
Impacts on educational institutions: effects on faculty, staff, administration, and students and on curriculum and program development;
Intellectual property;
Ethical considerations in the use of information technology in teaching and learning;
The internationalization of institutions and of education;
Open/Distance learning;
Building communities of teachers/educators; Cooperative learning;
Teacher training; and
The use of technology in education to promote democratic ideals, freedom, equality.
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