Further education uses the term ILT (Information and Learning Technology),
and the HE sector tends to use C&IT (Comms and Info Technology). The term
ILT gets very confusing when used in HE, since it is the acronym used by
Institute of Learning and Teaching in HE.
Chris
Chris Kelland
Education Officer, National Learning Network Project Support
Becta, Milburn Hill Road
Coventry, CV4 7JJ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Makin, John [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 2:46 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: definition of ICT
>
> Dear All,
> If memory serves, this is a DFEE invention (and therefore universally
> used in schools... though not necessarily in colleges and universities) it
> stands for Information and Communication [s...the plural is sometimes
> used]
> Technology. It means something more than IT...
>
> Refs: see any current National Curriculum document
>
> Cheers John M
> *****************************************************
> John L. Makin
> Faculty Liaison Officer, Education, Nottingham Trent University, LIS,
> Clifton, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.
> Chair of "Librarians of Institutes & Schools of Education".
> Editor of "Education Libraries Journal".
> Tel: 0115 848-3421 FAX: 0115 848-6304
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fytton Rowland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 1:49 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: definition of ICT
>
>
> Not an answer to Helen's question, I'm afraid, but another question.
>
> I first met "ICT" in the Dearing report -- until then, plain old "IT" was
> the acronym generally used. I believed "ICT" to stand for "information
> and
> communications technology", but recently I was marking some student work
> that expanded it to "information, communications and technology", a
> definition so broad that it might include almost everything in the modern
> world! Does anyone know whether the definition of the term "ICT" has been
> expanded to this latter one, or was it just a student error?
>
> Fytton Rowland.
>
>
> At 01:32 PM 4/27/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >I'm doing a dissertation, on the impact of ICT on mobile library
> >service provision and use, and am looking for an authoritative
> >definition of ICT which does not focus on the Internet solely. If
> >anyone has any suggestions could they please email me at the
> >following address
> >
> >[log in to unmask]
> >
> >Thanks
> >Helen Towers
> >email: [log in to unmask]
> >Department of Information Studies
> >University of Sheffield
> >Western Bank
> >Sheffield
> >S10 2TN
> >UK
>
> **********************************************************
> Fytton Rowland, M.A., Ph.D., F.I.Inf.Sc., Lecturer,
> Deputy Director of Undergraduate Programmes and
> Programme Tutor for Publishing with English,
> Department of Information Science,
> Loughborough University,
> Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK.
>
> Phone +44 (0) 1509 223039 Fax +44 (0) 1509 223053
> E-mail: [log in to unmask]
> http://info.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/staff/frowland.html
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