Change with digital technologies in education/Change ecologies/Introduction

''He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.Digital technologies that currently pervade education are likely to increase the pace of change in association with other factors. Many theories and case studies can be used to inform such change and decrease unexpected and unwelcome impacts, but it has been hard for change agents and others to select the most appropriate theories and to apply more than one at a time.

This introduction brings a range of these theories together by applying ecology as an overarching perspective, which I began about a decade ago (Davis, 2008 ; 2009 ).

The purpose of this introduction is to provide a high-level overview of the components of a change ecosystem. Each component will be studied in more detail for the duration of the course. In this course you will study multiple layers of change with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education, starting with a personal instance of adopting and ICT innovation, moving through organizational perspectives, into system-wide ecological perspectives of change with ICT in education locally and globally.