The purpose of this article is to develop theoretical framework for defining technology education (TE) goals. First, approaches technocratic determinism, the determinism nature, voluntarism and aestheticism have been considered within same framework. Second, four alternative definitions (Freenberg, 2007) applied these approaches. Instrumentalism emphasises learners’ creative product production....

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In the mid-1990s, the rise of the Internet and Web technology provided a renewed impetus to distance education. Just as the rise of the Internet and Web technology led to the subsequent dot com bubble and bust, the promise of a revolution in education and society that distance education was thought to hold turned out to be overblown. However, just as the use of the Internet and Web technology i...

Background: Little is known about how to introduce complex technologies like arthroscopy into low-income countries. Thus, we compared low- versus high-resource intensive methods of teaching basic arthroscopic skills in a randomized controlled trial in Haiti. Methods: Forty-eight Haitian orthopaedic surgeons and residents attending an orthopaedic conference in Haiti were block randomized to rec...

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