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 Many
organizations and efforts are engaged with the challenge of
making good use of ICT technologies to improve educational
outcomes. Many of these efforts struggle to overcome
technology resistance, lack of funding and a shortage of
leaders. Which educator population could be better suited to
take on the challenges of making better use of ICT to improve
educational outcomes than ICT educators?
There are many
exciting opportunities to address this challenge through the
Center, for example, we can:
- Have knowledgeable guest lecturers appear at one site
within the region and provide access to that lecture,
synchronously or asynchronously, at other schools
- Arrange student remote access to specialized equipment
at one or few schools that each school may not be able to
afford separately
- Deliver faculty development events and resources via
network connections between schools
- Establish a network of ICT subject matter experts to
serve as resources throughout the region
- Share ICT curriculum efficiently across networks
- Develop an easily accessible, on-demand repository of
multimedia ICT learning objects
- Offer for credit at one school course and lab
offerings that are physically at another
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 Model
hybrid course delivery systems that allow students to
attend in person, remotely in real time and/or
asynchronously
- Engage industry to deploy solutions that are too
inefficient for them to try without a larger organization
to coordinate educational participants
If anybody is going to figure out and model good practices
with using ICT to improve education, it’s the geek educators
in our ICT related programs. Successful models are then more
easily adopted by less technologically inclined faculty in
non-ICT related programs.
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