Open AccessPlanning for Integrating Teaching Technologies
Author(s) -
Mandie Aaron,
D. R. Dicks,
Cindy Ives,
Brenda Montgomery
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
canadian journal of learning and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1499-6685
pISSN - 1499-6677
DOI - 10.21432/t2h02d
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , process (computing) , technology integration , computer science , maturity (psychological) , capability maturity model , teaching method , process management , knowledge management , management science , mathematics education , engineering , psychology , software , artificial intelligence , developmental psychology , programming language , operating system
Teaching technologies offer pedagogical advantages which vary with specific contexts. Successfully integrating them hinges on clearly identifying pedagogical goals, then planning for the many decisions that technological change demands. In examining different ways of organizing this process, we have applied planning tools from other domains - Fault Tree Analysis and Capability Maturity Modeling- at the school and college levels. In another approach, we have examined attempts to broadly model the integration process at the university level. Our studies demonstrate that the use of a variety of tools and techniques can render the integration of teaching technologies more systematic.