ABSTRACT
Having examined some of the issues concerning the professional development of teachers, we turn to the development of institutions. Here we explore the potential of the multimedia technology and examine the institutional factors that inhibit the impact of the technology on teaching and learning. In particular we address the practical and pedagogical issues that face teachers when they wish to use multimedia technology as a learning tool. Multimedia seems to provide opportunities for a more learner-centred approach in school but why is such an approach so difficult to implement? We look at issues of control, classroom management and the recurring problems of curriculum fit. We then examine the introduction of CD-ROM systems into schools and decisions that schools have taken on where to put the computer.
