Reflective Blog #2

Reflective Blog #2:  Research in Educational Technology

Laura Dorantes

Jamil, M., & Shah, J. H. (2011). Technology: Its potential effects on teaching in higher education. New Horizons in Education, 59(1), 38-51.

Authors Mubashrah Jamil and Mamil H. Shah state that ICTs have changed the relationships in regards to adopt or give up technology or to use it more, less or in different ways.  Changes in many cases may be gradual, dramatic, predictable, and even unexpected.  In the article I researched, there are tables in which show recent changes in higher educational institutions (HEI) are due to expansions of applications of technological approaches in teaching and learning.  Both authors strongly believe that science and technology are the challenges that are facing education and training systems in developing countries and transition economies are immense.  The argument was that we must try to achieve goals that require a fundamental change in the ways learning takes place and the relationship between teachers and learners.   UCTs incorporated the concept with doing and making to learn with technology, which motivate the learners to experience things around them at their own pace.  This article was primary written for educators.  Large majority of teacher agree that ICT could have positive impacts for students’ motivation and attainments.