Anthony Picciano

ANTHONY G. PICCIANO, CHARLES D. DZIUBAN, CHARLES R. GRAHAM, EDS.

Blended learning, which combines the strengths of face-to-face and technology-enhanced learning, is increasingly being seen as one of the most important vehicles for education reform today. The method allows both teacher and learner access to radically increased possibilities for understanding how we transmit and receive information, how we interact with others in educational settings, how we build knowledge, and how we assess what we have taught or learned. This volume provides readers with the most current, in-depth collection of research perspectives on the subject, addressing institutional, design and adoption, and learning issues, and offers an informed meditation on the future.

ANTHONY G. PICCIANO AND JOEL SPRING

Over the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various interest groups seek to influence policies and practices in public education in the United States. No longer left to the experience and knowledge of educators, American education has become as much the domain of private organizations, corporate entities, and political agents who see it as a market for their ideas, technologies, and ultimately profits. Picciano and Spring posit that educational technology is the vehicle whereby these separate movements, organizations, and individuals have become integrated in a powerful common entity, and detail how the educational-industrial complex has grown and strengthened its position of influence. Picciano and Spring serve on the doctoral faculty in urban education.

Technology in schools has evolved from the predominance of stand-alone computers to a blend of computer, media, communications, and other forms of technology dominated by the ubiquitous Internet and World Wide Web. In addition, K-12 education has evolved into a much more outcomes-driven enterprise that depends upon technology and data to perform many of its basic functions. The fifth edition of Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology, designed for pre-service and in-service educators such as administrators, teachers, technology coordinators, and media specialists, provides both theoretical and practical considerations for planning and implementing technology in today's schools, with an emphasis on the total application of technology, including both administrative and instructional uses.