This case describes the Virtual Learning Center of the University of Granada in Spain. It relates the creation of a specific service structure to manage the promotion of the use of ICT and elearning in the educational processes of a large, traditional, five century-old university. With just the base of a few previous pilot experiences, this Center, created in February 2001, had to address the t...

Although it is widely believed that information literacy (IL) competencies are useful in helping students perform better in their schoolwork and beyond, limited empirical evidence is available showing the relationship between IL competencies and IL education. While a lot of research has been done worldwide and most of the findings have proven that IL is a much-needed skill by students, little r...

This paper concerns the effects of ICT use on the process of foreign language learning, specifically English for different personality types of learners. Our aim is to test whether the use of ICT in English classes, or at home, during students’ primary and secondary education, has had an impact on students’ language proficiency and whether and to what extent that impact has been influenced by s...

The rural communities in South Korea have faced serious challenges as the country has gradually opened the agricultural market and extended the conclusion of Free Trade Agreement with more and more countries. Moreover, due to the national socio-economic and political structures, South Korea has been undergoing the technological imbalance between rural and urban areas. In order to cope with thes...

This paper reports on the impact of the implementation of active and collaborative practices in ICT (information and communication technologies) classrooms. Both of these approaches convey a lot of responsibility from the teacher to the students and the hoping, as backed up by the literature, is to promote deeper learning and reasoning skills at a higher level. The question is: how do you do al...

Kelluwen is a learning community composed of teachers, students and researchers who are devoted to assessing and promoting ICT-mediated learning strategies, focused on improving students’ socio-communicative skills. Kelluwen has a Web platform (http://app.kelluwen.cl) that supports b-learning activities allowing teachers to create, use and share instructional design leveraging Web 2.0 tools. Th...

This work addresses the implementation of a mobile Augmented Reality (AR) browser on educational environments. We seek to analyze new educational tools and methodologies, non-traditional, to improve students’ academic performance, commitment and motivation. The basis of our claim lies in the skills improvement that students can achieve thanks to their innate affinity to digital media features o...

The rural communities in South Korea have faced serious challenges as the country has gradually opened the agricultural market and extended the conclusion of Free Trade Agreement with more and more countries. Moreover, due to the national socio-economic and political structures, South Korea has been undergoing the technological imbalance between rural and urban areas. In order to cope with thes...