There has been much discussion and hope of an impending learning revolution led by computer technologies that promise the augment, or replace, the teacher’s role in the classroom with the likes of which educators and learners have never seen. [..]

The explosion of computing devices connected to the internet has driven enormous shifts in the way we communicate and it is becoming increasingly acknowledged that the future is indeed going to be digital. [..]

The Internet represents the backbone of a rapidly changing online world that has undoubtedly changed the way in which we undertake many of our day to day activities in modern western society. Despite enormous technological hurdles, the uptake and growing ubiquity of the Internet has been considerably fast; it has been a mere fifteen years since the Internet first commonly appeared in homes and society has moved very quickly from a traditional voice-only telephony system to a radically interconnected media rich array of applications and protocols, the most common implementation of which is the World Wide Web [..]