This issue of the international journal: Education and Information Technologies has a total of 30 articles coming from Finland, Macau, The Netherlands, Greece, Belgium, Algeria, France, USA, Australia, India, Germany, Sultanate of Oman, Pakistan, Turkey, China, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Kuwait, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Malaysia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Japan and Vanuatu. To begin is an article by Sini Kontkanen, Patrick Dillon, Teemu Valtonen, Lasse Eronen, Hannu Koskela and Pertti Vaisanen from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Eastern Finland, titled: "Students' experiences of learning with iPads in upper secondary school - a base for proto-TPACK". This article examines Finnish students' experiences of using personal iPads in their three years of upper secondary schooling, using data from a Finish school Finland where all new students were provided with iPads at the start of their studies. The value that iPads add to teaching and learning is difficult to quantify because of complex and often conflicting factors involved. Overall, the findings imply that teachers' TPACK is generally resistant to change and students' proto-TPACK is insufficiently developed to initiate change. An approach that systematically develops both students' and teachers' TPACK is advocated.
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