Building the evidence base for macro-systemic change: Or... creating the bookmark of the future

Abstract

The theme of Chile 2000 is 'The bookmark of the school of the future'. This paper sets out ways to develop the content of the bookmarked sites. A global trend can be detected towards evidence-based policy and practice. There is a great deal of evidence on exciting ideas concerning the application of ICT in education, but rather little in the way of structured critique of Ihis evidence. ICT faces two major challenges; first, the need to assemble existing evidence in a way that is accessible to users; second, to develop working methods that arc appropriate in fields that are not only changing very rapidly, but which are also changing in radical ways. The challenge of creating the contents of the 'bookmark of the school of the future ' in the face of macro-systemic change is the focus of this paper. © 2001 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.