应对挑战:促进学习的整合途径——美国"AECT 2009年会"综述

Facing Challenges: Promoting Technology Integration in Learning——Review of the AECT 2009 Annual Conference

教育信息技术协会(AECT)旨在通过整合相关专业领域人员以便有效运用技术促进学习。2009年的AECT 年会更是以整合作为会议主题，提出以整合的途径应对技术与社会的发展及其给教育信息技术领域的研究与实践所带来的持续挑战。本文对此次年会的主题以及相关的讨论专题进行了综述，从变革学与教、连接设计与开发、整合的跨领域途径、探究新媒体的教学应用、使用者设计与相关者参与、社会性网络及分布式媒体的教学整合、系统变革等多个角度，结合会议的讨论主题进行了概括与分析，并对其中涌现的若干特色研究，比如在虚拟世界学习、领导力与系统变革、专业共同体与学科发展等进行了特别关注，试图从中跟踪国际教育信息技术的研究及发展趋势。

The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is an organization that promotes collaboration among professionals in different fields to enhance technology-integrated learning. The annual conference in 2009 had integration as its key theme, proposing to use integration as the main method to face challenges brought about by socio-technological changes during the use of educational information technology. This paper summarizes the themes that have emerged from the keynote speeches, panel discussions, track presentations and poster sessions during this conference in an attempt to find patterns and trends to benefit educational technology professionals in China.