Our college places emphasize in using the technology adoption model in teaching and learning media. I do agree the college does have a strong tradition or culture regarding a local distinctive college vision and mission. Our main objectives of ICT implementation is to improve the lecturer effectiveness and efficiency in teaching and students’ competence in learning. Our top management is the main change agent and they do encourage teachers and students to use the new IT tools like our case “blackboard” tools to facilitate better teaching and learning in our organization.
Due to lots of administration and teaching workload, teachers has paid less effort and time in attending training workshops and seminars. In addition they do resist in change in IT application, they seldom focus on infrastructure and technical training in using the blackboard for better communication and teaching purpose. They may not have clear defined personal targets and schedules for achieving better ICT technical competencies in teaching application. It is very important to motivate the whole teaching staff to move from an “engineering approach” to “re-engineering approach” in what we discussed at our last lecture. Teachers should change or redesign their teaching concept and utilize the new ICT technology in our teaching and learning processes.
As last but not all, adopting ICT to automate the teaching tasks and processes within the college is crucial for all staff at our college. It involves the fundamental rethinking of the teacher concept on nature of education and the rapid change of learning processes within the whole college. To set a good example in learning attitude and performance, probably teachers should move a great step and quickly adapt the new change of IT model in our organization.
(from Maria)
We have something similar in my college.
回覆刪除Most of the experienced teachers in my school are not willing to change to the IT approach, neither in teaching and learning, nor in administrative aspects. They resist to the changes, mostly because they think they can do as good as in the traditional ways. Besides, some of them are not confident on the reliability of the IT devices.
School heads and management can be the only change agent in this case.
I have the same thought about our College with you, Maria. School leaders and teachers are always the change agent who have to initiate and speed up the change processes. Nowadays, students are familar with internet savvy. They prefer e-learning environment, so it's important to manage the change effectively.
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