ICT In Education

forwarding the notion of the learner as an dynamic member in the learning process

(ICC, 2002,p 14).

Placed in advanced technological settings students are given the chance to work in an autonomous manner, becoming more responsible of their own learning process and of the knowledge they attain, hence becoming more informed of the contents and aims to be accomplished. The integration of ICT into the English classroom promotes, mainly, communication: “Learning on-line is different from learning off-line in another important way: there is much more learning and much less teaching (…) aleast there is much less teaching as it is typically done in off-line settings”in the way

Peterson and Facemyer (1996:55) specify. Warschauer (1996), on his behalf,

The learning situation with its space and time coordinates conditions a lot of variables that occur within teaching and learning transactions. The development of ICT influencess and questions the conventional educational space unit - the classroom - and the time unit - the time dedicated to give an on-site class, which is in most of the situations one hour - at the period that new teaching and learning methods increased around telematic networks have to be placed in several teaching and learning settings,which enhance and compose a diversified surveys and a pluralisation of the educational proposal (Salinas,

This action Plan describes E-learning as "the use of new multimedia technologies and the Internet to improve the quality of learning by facilitating access to resources and services as well as remote exchanges and collaboration"(COM: 172 final, 28.3.2001 “The e Learning Action Plan – Designing Tomorrow´s Education”). Two of the major constituents of the action plan to boost the

progress of E-learning are teacher training and the setting up of collaboration and interconnection procedures between the staff of the educational setting. An extra the plan’s major points is the purpose of involving all the participants in training processes in recognising the significance and potential of e-learning toarise a lifelong and life-wide learning. The latest instructional designs to which we have invoked propose new perspectives to teaching and learning proceedings. They are manageable patterns with diverse communication structures and delivery of learning materials in which information can be assigned by all participants. Among the several initiatives intended to consider all the pedagogical potentialities in the Net,Web-based Learning comes out as one of the most crucial and frequent training and learning methodology. Neverthless, within this classification different modalities -such as virtual, distance, open, on-site learning- and practices overlap and complicate a generalizationof the label asMir, Reparaz and Sobrino