Despite the fact that education systems have been heavily investing in technology since the early 1980s, international indicators on technology uptake and use in education are missing. For more than 25 years education systems have been able to design and implement policies in this domain without those indicators, so the question is: why start discussing them now? Is the information available not good enough?

The aim of this report is to provide a basis for the design of frameworks, the identification of indicators and existing data sources as well as gaps in areas here further research is to be initiated.  This collection of articles follow the intention of both organisations, the OECD and the European Commission, to foster international cooperation with other relevant international organisations and to serve as a starting point for common reflection on ways to assess how ICT is used in education.

Assessing the effects of ICT in education

edited by: Friedrich Scheuermann and Francesc Pedró

Published: 2009