The text explores the concept of innovation, and analyse and compare
different dimensions of innovation found in the various case studies;
the transfer of innovation and the mechanisms of change; on an
innovative online case study database on education innovations that has
been designed to be used by education practitioners to support
organizational leadership, international collaboration and reflective
practice in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) eEducation
Leadership initiative; on a project aimed to support the establishment
of communities of practice for education practitioners facilitated
through an extendable online database that can be used to contribute and
share case studies of their own ICT-supported pedagogical innovations.
It discusses roles of the teacher and the anticipated changes to the
education profession at a system level, in the coming decade on the
basis of emerging changes observed in the case studies, and leadership
issues at the school level. The book analyses change mechanisms for
different kinds of innovation and how different contextual and cultural
factors interact to bring about the changes observed.