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This paper seeks to situate ICTs and their application in the domain of teacher education within the broader construct of “open learning communities.” It attempts to use the opportunity of discussing ICTs to (1) raise fundamental questions about the ends and means of teaching and learning within a broader social, political, economic and cultural context, and (2) explore alternative approaches to building increasingly dynamic learning environments that are consistent with and responsive to the needs, interests and aspirations of individual learners and their local contexts/communities.
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Visser, J., Jain, M. (1997). Towards building open learning communities: re-contextualising teachers and learners. In: Passey, D., Samways, B. (eds) Information Technology. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35081-3_2
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