ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the use and potentials of Learning Platform (LP) technologies for organising learning in English primary and secondary schools. LP is used to encompass a range of technologies including virtual learning environments, management information systems, communications technologies, and other information and resource sharing technologies. School leaders, teachers, and students viewed their LPs as enhancing the range and quality of learning resources to which they had access. The research project took the same methodological approach to primary and secondary schools, although differences in and organisational approaches across the participating schools were accounted for when sampling the schools, and analysing the data. Some schools were encouraging students and parents to create their own content, allowing the dynamic creation and recreation of learning resources rather than the LP being used as a static digital drop box' or repository.
