Role of ICT and teacher education

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely believed to be important potential levers to introduce and sustain education reform efforts. Despite evidence of increasingly widespread use of ICTs in education initiatives around the world, however, there is little guidance available for policy makers to meet the education-related Millennium development goals. Teaching is becoming one of the most challenging professions in the society where knowledge is expanding rapidly. As new concepts of learning have evolved, teachers are expected facilitate learning and make it meaningful to individual learners rather than just to prove knowledge and skills. Recent developments of innovative technologies have provided possibilities to teaching profession but at the same time have placed more demands on teach to learn how to use these technologies in their teaching.