Choosing & Using Technologies: Six principles frame

<body bgcolor="#FEDFD1" text="#000000" alink="#FF0074"> <p><a name="top"><strong>Choosing</strong></a><strong> & Using Technologies in Education & Training</strong></p> <h1 align="center"><a name="top"><font color="#000000">Good Practice</font></a><font color="#000000"> in the Use of Technology</font></h1> <p>If you want to use technology in a way that will really benefit learners, staff and organisations, we believe that it is important to take a broad view. You will need to look not just at the technologies themselves but also at how your organisation and the people within it will manage them, and, most importantly, what are the needs of your individual and industry clients.</p> <p>In this section of the site, we have gathered together what we have found to be the vital issues in the form of a Good Practice Framework. On this page are the six Principles that are the backbone of the framework. If you click on one of these, you will be taken to further discussion to support the principle, with links to further reading in the form of bibliographies, case studies, and a checklist that will help you to plan and evaluate your project.</p> <p align="left"><a href="p1_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 1</strong></font></a><font size="3"><strong>: Stakeholder Interests and Learner Focus</strong><br> The main guiding force of educational projects using technology should be the needs of learners and other clients and stakeholders. This is necessary to identify the educational outcomes and processes expected from the project, and to ensure that the project is soundly based in an understanding of learners characteristics and needs.<br> <br> </font><a href="p2_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 2</strong></font></a><font size="3"><strong>: Organisational Goals</strong><br> The organisation should identify how the project relates to its own strategic goals and position.<br> <br> </font><a href="p3_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 3</strong></font></a><font size="3"><strong>: Evaluative Framework</strong><br> A sound evaluative framework should be adopted to inform the progress of the project from its early stages and to provide a basis for decisions about the full and continuing implementation of the project.<br> <br> </font><a href="p4_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 4</strong></font></a><font size="3"><strong>: Organisation and Resources</strong><br> The organisation should ensure that adequate funding, suitably trained human resources, suitable facilities and accessible equipment are available and have actively contributed to its formation. These are needed not only through the development and trial stages but for the lifetime of the fully implemented project.<br> <br> </font><a href="p5_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 5</strong></font></a><font size="3"><strong>: Teaching and Learning</strong><br> The structure and delivery method of the program should be designed to suit the learning styles and access needs of learners, the ability of teachers and other staff to provide support for learners, and the curriculum content of the program.<br> <br> </font><a href="p6_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 6</strong></font></a><font size="3"><strong>: Technology and Learning Materials</strong><br> Decisions about the choice of technology should incorporate consideration of learners needs, the ability of teachers and other staff to provide support for learners, and the curriculum content of the program. Resource materials should be of sound quality, suitable for the purpose, and well matched with technologies and human resources. In projects which are driven by the technology choice rather than educational needs, these considerations are equally important or even more so.</font></p> <p align="center"><br> <font size="2">Please add your case studies or comments to this site </font></p> <hr> <p align="center">[<a href="entry_fr.htm" target="_top">Entry</a>] [<a href="feedback.htm#top">Feedback</a>] [<a href="http://avoca.vicnet.net.au/Excite/AT-cutequery.html" target="_top">Search</a>]</p> </body>