White Papers on
Technology Issues for Educators

During the Spring semester of 1999, a course was offered at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign as part of an online Masters program called CTER: Curriculum, Technology, and Educational Reform.

This course, Educational Policy Studies 304: Ethical and Policy Issues in Information Technologies, included an assignment for seven teams, composed entirely of teachers and other K-12 personnel who were part of the course, to develop a set of white papers on a number of issues centrally affecting the ways in which new information and communication technologies are changing schools today.

Each of these white papers addresses how these issues present educators with a number of difficult challenges and dilemmas in deciding how to incorporate these new technologies wisely and to good educational effect.

To our knowledge, these resources represent the best overview of these issues, written by and for educators and their particular concerns, available on the Web.

We invite you to use these resources, link to them, and tell others about them. Please be sure to credit the authors who created these resources and the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, which sponsored this course.

Course instructors:
Bertram C. Bruce
Nicholas C. Burbules

Teaching assistant:
Barbara Duncan