The last decade of the millennium has seen rapid progress in the development of learning technologies, giving hope to many that we may be approaching the realisation of a vision of an educational landscape in which education providers form virtual partnerships to deliver distributed provision. A landscape in which learners sharing the same learning programme can do so across fading boundaries o...

This paper traces the emergence of Information Technology (IT) for educational purposes. It begins with a discourse on the relationship between culture and educational technology. A key premise is that culture is an important influence in education. Similarly, the evolution of educational technology is very much intertwined with culture. This paper traces educational development from the tradit...