• DocumentCode
    2091617
  • Title

    Why Technology Innovations are Still a Cottage Industry in Education?

  • Author

    Bhattacharya, Madhumita

  • Author_Institution
    Athabasca Univ., Athabasca, AB
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    1-5 July 2008
  • Firstpage
    999
  • Lastpage
    1000
  • Abstract
    This is a major question for everyone involved in introducing technological innovations in education. Governments in many countries are trying very hard by providing finances and industry on the other hand giving award and equipment in order to introduce ICT innovations in the education sector in a large scale. We can see pockets of ongoing innovations in the introduction of technology in education from last decade or so and most recently with the introduction of technology in distance education. Still it seems that there is a long way to go. The question is that if use of technology will ever happen in education as it happened in banking sector or e-government organizations? And do we really need to revolutionize the education sector? Or should we always remain in the process of evolution and keep moving as the technology changes.
  • Keywords
    educational technology; innovation management; distance education; technology changes; technology innovations; Banking; Computer science education; Continuing education; Distance learning; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Electronic government; Large-scale systems; Security; Technological innovation; Distance Education; Education; Tablet PC; Technology innovations; cottage industry;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Learning Technologies, 2008. ICALT '08. Eighth IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Santander, Cantabria
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3167-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICALT.2008.207
  • Filename
    4561890