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The use of information technology (IT) to support the classroom teacher and school managers to organize and manage the learning environment better has received little specific attention, even though many applications or systems purport that this is one of their aims. This special issue attempts to fill that gap. This introduction paper provides an overview of the range of support that IT can provide in the field of education, and discusses how the development of these support systems needs to be approached analytically. Finally, there is an overview of the papers invited for this edition of the journal that are illustrative of the wide ranging development of IT to support teachers, teaching and the management of both
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VISSCHER, A., WILD, P. The potential of information technology in support of teachers and educational managers managing their work environment. Education and Information Technologies 2, 263–274 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018625600131
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