ABSTRACT
In the Introduction we said that e-schooling, in essence, has learners at the heart of the system, supported by autonomous teachers, behaving collegially, teaching a relevant curriculum, with assessment for learning, and an ICT infrastructure that nourishes a knowledge-rich, constructivist approach to learning. Schools are community hubs, sustaining learning communities, which enhance the life-chances of learners by collective social, education, health and welfare action. There is a norm of collaboration within the learning community and between schools, businesses and the education community both for the purpose of professional learning for teachers and for the development of the global ease of young citizens. Crucially, there should not only be alignment between all these parts of the picture, but also at all levels in the systems between policy, strategy, resourcing and practice. Community structures need to be in place for curriculum provision and for professional development and the technology renewal needs to be sustainable to support enhanced learning as it builds towards transformation.
