Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom promotes state-of-the-art applications of classroom technology for teaching and learning. Teachers, educational researchers, and scholars are offered chapters filled with practical applications of research, practice, and thought-provoking stances on many of the key issues associated with teaching and learning in today s classroom environment. These chapters cover a wide range of instructional technology topics in specific educational areas of business, computer science, information systems, distance learning, and communications education as well as the more general area of teaching and learning with technology. Integrating Information & Communications Technologies Into the Classroom includes topics such as the effects of human factors on Web-based instruction; the impact of gender, politics, culture, and economics on instructional technology; the effects of technology on socialization and group processes; and the barriers, challenges, and successes of technology integration in the classroom are included for review.