Choosing & Using Technologies: Managers and Decision-makers

<body bgcolor="#A5FEE6" text="#000000" link="#804000" vlink="#8500FF" 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">Managers</font></a><font color="#000000"> and Decision Makers</font></h1> <p>You have come to this page because you class yourself as a manager or decision maker. We think that means you are the head of a teaching department, a training manager, or someone with a middle to senior management position.</p> <p>You may be wondering whether using technology will really be worthwhile for the client groups you have in mind. If that is the case, our <strong>Good Practice Principle 1</strong>, <a href="p1_frame.htm" target="_top"><strong>Learner Focus and Other Stakeholder Interests</strong></a>, will help you to identify who has a stake in the program and how you can balance their needs.</p> <p>If you are wondering whether the project you have in mind is in line with your organisations strategic objectives, <strong>Good Practice Principle 2</strong>, <a href="p2_frame.htm" target="_top"><strong>Organisational Goals</strong></a>, will provide some ideas about how you might assess this.</p> <p>You will probably want to know whether the project has been successful once it is completed. <strong>Good Practice Principle 3</strong>, <a href="p3_frame.htm" target="_top"><strong>Evaluative Framework</strong></a>, suggests that designing an evaluation method before you start the project will help you to plan, and help keep the project on track, as well as providing a means of assessing success at the completion of the project.</p> <table width="80%"> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="8%"><img src="images/wytball.gif" align="bottom" width="20" height="20"><font size="3"><strong> </strong></font><a href="p1_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 1: Learner Focus and Other Stakeholder Interests</strong></font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="8%"><img src="images/wytball.gif" align="bottom" width="20" height="20"><font size="3"><strong> </strong></font><a href="p2_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 2: Organisational goals</strong></font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="8%"><img src="images/wytball.gif" align="bottom" width="20" height="20"><font size="3"><strong> </strong></font><a href="p3_frame.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Principle 3: Evaluative framework</strong></font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" width="8%"><img src="images/wytball.gif" align="bottom" width="20" height="20"> <strong>Further reading:</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="8%"></td> <td width="92%"><font size="3"><strong><img src="images/blckball.gif" align="bottom" width="20" height="20"> </strong></font><a href="mment_fr.htm" target="_top"><font size="3"><strong>Management of learning</strong></font></a><font size="3"> </font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center">[<a href="decision.htm#top">Top</a>]<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>