IT and curriculum processes: Dilemmas and challenges
IT and curriculum processes: Dilemmas and challenges
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IT 和课程流程:困境和挑战
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10.1007/978-0-387-73315-9_7
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2008
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J. Voogt
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作者:
J. Voogt
Curriculum deals with the goals, content, and organization of learning at several educational levels (Walker, 2003). Increasingly assessment is also seen as an integrated part of curriculum. Curriculum content and goals need to be well attuned to the other elements of the curriculum, viz., the organization of the teaching and learning process and assessment. For this reason several scholars (eg, van den Akker, 2003) propose that it is useful to more specifically define the components that are at stake in a curriculum. Van den Akker mentions ten curriculum components that need consideration in designing and implementing curricula: rationale, content, aims and objectives, learning activities, teachers’ role, grouping, materials and resources, location, time, and assessment. By using the metaphor of the spider web, van den Akker illustrates the interconnectedness between curriculum components and shows the need for a comprehensive approach to change curricula. For a long time the implementation of IT was perceived by policy as a matter of provision of hardware and software only. Just recently attention has been paid to the implications of the use of IT for curriculum content, learner activities, teacher role, assessment practices, etc. The integration of IT in the curriculum is a complex endeavor in which many stakeholders are involved. To better understand the problems related to the implementation of complex changes as the integration of IT in education, curriculum researchers (eg, Goodlad et al., 1979, van den Akker, 2003) use an analytic framework to articulate different representations of the curriculum. They distinguish among the intended, the implemented and the attained curriculum. The competencies needed for citizens in the information or knowledge society (Anderson, 2008) can be considered the intended curriculum–the rationale and goals for learning. However, there may be a gap between the needs of the information society as expressed by the policy