The view that information and communication technologies (ICT) are a useful tool for raising educational standards dates back to the 1950s and the findings of Harvard psychologist BF Skinner.1 More recently, support for the effectiveness of ICT as a teaching and learning device has come from the educational and psychological literature (recently reviewed by Heathe
New technology in schools: is there a payoff?
Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Olmo Silva , 14 December 2007
The geographic concentration of services today mirrors that of manufacturing a century ago
Klaus Desmet, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg , 12 October 2007
In the last two decades, rapid improvements in Information and Communications Technology – ICT – has wrought enormous change on the world. As with other so-called general purpose technologies, its productivity impact was initially not much felt. As Solow quipped in 1987, computers were everywhere “except in the productivity statistics”.
Topics: Labour markets
Tags: 'death of distance', ICT, spatial concentration
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