A new challenging facet of education : feasibility of bringing technology into overcrowded classrooms

Abstract EN

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continues to grow in importance in developing the curriculum of higher education.

Technology-enhanced classrooms seem to enable multi-modal teaching, change curricula and spawn rich forms of online research and collaboration; it also may promote discovery learning, learner autonomy, and learner-centeredness and create motivation in the classroom.

Bringing technology into overcrowded classrooms is, in fact, the concern of a number of researchers who call for a pause for reflection to provide opportunities to consider the possible impacts of new technologies on the learning outcomes.

Thus, the present paper attempts to reflect upon the challenging task of teachers from the developing world to incorporate new educational technologies into their typical classrooms for a better teaching/learning experience.

Nonetheless, one should be cognisant of the fact that despite the growing importance of ICTs in education, there is no “magic bullet” that will answer all the existing challenges.