Country specific developments: the Norwegian network for IT-research and competence in education: semantic web and wireless networks in teacher education

Many countries are implementing educational objectives aimed toward preparing citizens for the information society. The Norwegian teacher education is still in the relatively early stages of adopting ICT. Although there seem to be numerous shortcomings in teacher education, a number of relatively innovative projects are under way several places. This paper presents innovative cases. ICT in teacher education shifts the emphasis away from lectures, where students passively take in information which they are expected to parrot back, towards more active ways of acquiring information. Experiments and new practices where ICT has been courageously applied to teacher education have been motivating and important experiences for the participants. A national web-site, LUNA develop dynamically generated results from projects and share the collective knowledge from innovative practice.