What role should ICT play in education reform and how can we ensure that their potential to enhance education is fulfilled? Access articles, reports and links to online journals and websites which explore these issues and offer guidelines for integrating ICT into educational programmes.

What are the real implications of the transformation of education for teachers and what role will they play in the new knowledge societies? Here you will find articles and websites that respond to these questions, including common perceptions of the teacher’s place in education in the modern world, how ICT can support and motivate teachers and standards for teacher ICT competency.

Actual teacher training projects and papers describing them are linked to here. Educators and programme developers outline the working behind their projects, and share their experiences and lessons learnt. Extensive resources for online professional development courses are listed thematically. 

This section explores topics surrounding the use of ICT in classroom teaching, and showcases the experiences and opinions of educators as they develop new ways of integrating ICT into their teaching practice. Links include articles on how to use ICT in the classroom effectively, tips and ICT-based lessons across the curriculum.

Numerous links are available to: ready-made lesson plans, activities and teaching materials covering all major curricular areas. Materials are organized into specific subjects, ranging from arts, languages, health and physical education, to mathematics, sciences and information technology.

Links here offer downloadable software, freeware and shareware. Most applications are free or low-cost, and many sites offer software for the full curriculum. Click to websites that review new and existent share- and freeware, software that enables teachers to put educational materials and student work online and guidelines for evaluating educational software.

How can teachers assess the validity and authority of internet resources? This page provides articles and websites that define accepted evaluation criteria, such as appropriateness of content to audience, authenticity and authority of the source, and affiliation of the author. Other sites focus on copyright issues.

This section supplies links to articles on online teacher and/or institution collaboration. Strategies for organizing online collaboration are outlined, along with relevant pedagogies, useful tools, tutoring and participation. Links to collaboration projects are provided, along with information on intellectual property rights and the cultural implications of the emerging educational environment.

This page focuses on how to develop online courses, and is presented in four sections. The first section contains articles on a host of e-learning topics. Next, there are papers from online course developers on how to create your own virtual course or school website, examples of online learning programmes and educational websites and free and low-cost software applications.

To what extent can new technologies be said to enhance teaching and learning? Articles and papers describing recent research into the practical value of ICT are linked to here. There are then sites containing tools and templates to assess the performance of teachers and students. There are also studies describing ICT performance indicators.