dICTatEd is a research project, involving collaborators around the world, that is investigating ways of enhancing the impact of investments in educational information and communications technology (ICT). dICTatEd aims to have a direct impact on policy and practice.

dICTatEd is predicated on substantial evidence that ICT is not having an impact on education that is proportional to the high levels of investment in 'educational' ICT around the world. One of the underpinning reasons for this seems to be a lack of shared understandings (visions) about why we are using ICT in education.

The starting point for dICTatEd was to carry out a literature review in order to identify rationales given for the use of ICT in education. A synthesis of the data resulted in 19 rationales. In order to explore the extent to which there was agreement about the relative importance of each of these 19 rationales a web-based questionnaire was developed. The aim is to generate over 20,000 responses to the questionnaire.

Interim results from the dICTatEd questionnaire are being reported during the data collection phase in the form of interim reports and dynamically on the web.

The dICTatEd website was last updated on 19th June 2008.
The dICTatEd website is part of the meD8 website.
This page was was reviewed by Peter Twining on 3rd October 2003.