Old Meets New: Culture and Digital Technologies in Schools -- What Is This Thing Called “Design” in Instructional Design Research?—The ABC Instant Research Question Generator -- Designing Educational Multimedia Resources -- An Evaluation Model for Quality Assurance of Blended Learning: Exploring the Lecturers’ Perspectives -- Reflective Map About the Limits and Challenges of Continued Training of Teachers for the Use of Mobile Technologies: The Experience of PROUCA -- Web 1.0 and Web 2.0: An Anglo-Portuguese Research Project on the Impact of Using Technology in Science Education Programmes -- Learning Foreign Languages in the Twenty-First Century: An Innovating Teletandem Experiment Through Skype.

Embracing the contribution and active participation of researchers, teachers, creators, managers and other specialists, this volume provides in-depth discussion of: • Students’ perspectives on media in the classroom • Students and media (as content and as tools for learning) • Educational Media Design • Institutional Impact of the integration of Educational Media • Old v. New Media: what really matters? • Research and Evaluation • Personal and/or social learning environments/networks • Media and inclusion • Media and informal learning • Immersive learning environments • Virtual mobility in Education • Mobile learning • Media and literacies The best peer-reviewed and hand selected papers  presented at the 2011 ICEM and  SIIE Joint Conference in Portugal make up the volume. Taken as a whole, they provide the most up-to-date material published on the future of ICT and the media in education, providing an invaluable resource to researchers, curriculum developers, policy makers, and anyone interested in the latest information about this  emerging and exciting area of study.