How Can the Ready Availability of Information via Information Technology Change Education and Should and Can These Changes Take Place?

This is not to say that traditional teaching practices should be completely abandoned, as a number of conventional learning principles are of vital importance to student development, however it is becoming increasingly acute that educational institutions have a responsibility to ensure students are prepared to meet the challenges and uncertainties of the "information age". Thus, if fundamental educational change is to occur, it is imperative that the implications and barriers hindering the widespread use of information technologies in education and consequently, society at large, are overcome, and the value of information and information technologies for contemporary society is realised.…