Preparing for disruption: developing institutional capability for decentralized education technologies Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4192250, abstract = {Abstract: A combination of pressures are now affecting institutional technology strategies; these include the increasing richness of the external technology environment, increasing individual technical capabilities, and pressures on institutions to reduce costs. An opportunity exists in this new environment for institutions to delegate greater responsibility for the provision of technology to individual students, replacing the current strategy of central provision and maintenance that promises both decreasing flexibility and increasing costs. However, while the decentralized approach offers new possibilities for personal autonomy and flexibility, it creates new challenges too: how can education professionals interact with personally-provided and managed technologies to provide coordination, monitoring, and guidance? This paper uses a general systems approach to suggest coordination tactics to bridge the capability gap between current provision and decentralized, personal learning technologies. }, address = {Vancouver, Canada}, author = {Wilson, Scott and Liber, Oleg and Griffiths, Dai and Johnson, Mark}, booktitle = {Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007}, citeulike-article-id = {4192250}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://go.editlib.org/p/25557}, editor = {Montgomerie, Craig and Seale, Jane}, keywords = {education, management, ple, systems, web20}, month = {June}, pages = {1386--1395}, posted-at = {2009-03-18 12:56:59}, priority = {3}, publisher = {AACE}, title = {Preparing for disruption: developing institutional capability for decentralized education technologies}, url = {http://go.editlib.org/p/25557}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4192250 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4192250 N2 - Abstract: A combination of pressures are now affecting institutional technology strategies; these include the increasing richness of the external technology environment, increasing individual technical capabilities, and pressures on institutions to reduce costs. An opportunity exists in this new environment for institutions to delegate greater responsibility for the provision of technology to individual students, replacing the current strategy of central provision and maintenance that promises both decreasing flexibility and increasing costs. However, while the decentralized approach offers new possibilities for personal autonomy and flexibility, it creates new challenges too: how can education professionals interact with personally-provided and managed technologies to provide coordination, monitoring, and guidance? This paper uses a general systems approach to suggest coordination tactics to bridge the capability gap between current provision and decentralized, personal learning technologies. AD - Vancouver, Canada EP - 1395 TI - Preparing for disruption: developing institutional capability for decentralized education technologies PB - AACE T2 - Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007 SP - 1386 KW - education KW - management KW - ple KW - systems KW - web20 AU - Wilson, Scott AU - Liber, Oleg AU - Griffiths, Dai AU - Johnson, Mark A2 - Montgomerie, Craig A2 - Seale, Jane PY - 2007/June// UR - http://go.editlib.org/p/25557 ER -