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Integrating Technologies in education involves comprehensive and coherent frameworks, policies and processes, which can determine why and how technology should be utilized in education. Otherwise, the potential of technology in transforming education and influencing development will remain undermined. The ICT in education encompasses policies, processes, information, applications, partnerships, standards and stakeholders that can together transform the process of education from ‘instructing’ to ‘learning’.

In India, the challenge for education policymakers is to develop an education system that support sustainable economic well-being without losing sight of the wider social consequences. While India has moved ahead of many of its Asian neighbours in its IT workforce, the basic issues of quality, equity and access to education still remain unresolved. The policy-makers are still apprehensive of the real value of integrating technologies in education to address these critical issues. Again decision-making in technology integration in education is often affected by lack of adequate information on the demonstrated value of technology in enhancing the quality and reach of education. Where technology has succeeded in influencing the education outreach and quality, supporting processes and frameworks that can sustain such efforts have not emerged. A lack of adequate knowledge sharing among key stakeholders has also delayed the process of using technologies as enablers of learning.