Product Description: This book relates contemporary information and communication technologies (ICT) to their specific teaching and learning functions, including how ICT is appropriated for and by educational or learning communities. The technological "hot spots" of interest in this book include: groupware or multi-user technologies such as group archives or synchronous co-construction environments, embedded interactive technologies in the spirit of ubiquitous computing, and modeling tools based on rich representations...read more

Product Description: This work argues that companies now need to consider the case for basing their suggestions for new products and markets on readings of the future that reflect an understanding of the nature of technology, "brushing up" these suggestions with user and market-oriented improvements...read more