This paper (21 page PDF) describes "a framework for understanding how technology can help transform formal education by blurring five foundational boundaries: time and space, knowledge, pedagogy, hierarchy, and community." It defines a boundary as "a restriction that foundationally limits learning or teaching" in an educational setting. The bulk of the paper is devoted to describing the five types of boundaries and their implications, then applying them in three case studies. "When regarding technology integration in education, we would like to shift from a discourse of bringing technology into existing educational practices to one that wishes to rethink those educational practices in the first place," writes Arnon Hershkovitz. I would push the question further, asking whether after introducing technology there is a need for some educational practices at all.
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