ABSTRACT
The uses of information and communications technologies (ICT) provide us with some of the latest examples of the way in which technological developments have been taken up and used by educators. In the past hundred years alone, educators have adopted, to some extent or other, developments such as film, radio, television, video (recording and/or playback); each has been utilized as an adjunct to the established practices of face to face lectures, seminars and tutorials. Now it is the turn of ICT. This chapter provides a short introduction to the use of ICT in higher education and is intended to give a lead into the series of detailed chapters that follow.
