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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Management of Educational Technology (MET)

I'm starting researching on Management of Educational Technology (MET). I ought not only to learn from MOT (Management of Technology) but also investigate the processes of developing and/or introducing new teaching technologies. Teachers are professionals of teaching, and teaching needs technologies. Then teachaers should either develop technologies by themselves or learn them from others. To improve teaching/learning processes, we should vitalize the developing and/or learning processes of teaching technologies. That is MET.
In MET, how to deal with teachers is one of keys. In general, professionals are to be treated differently than other workers or laborers, whether you like the idea of such discriminative treatment or not. Treatment enhances motivation. Teachers are,first, to be motivated to introduce new teaching technologies into their classes. Motivated teaches, disatisfied with existing technologies, would proceed to developing new technologies. Enhancing teachers' eagerness for introducing new teaching technologies is, therefore essential.
Can teachers develop new teaching technologies all by themselves? There might be some dificulties: Teachers tend to be too busy to spare enough time to browse existing technologies and to find seeds for new ones. Some new technologies need infrastructures such as IT, and most schools other than colleges not noly lack that type of infrastructures but also are short of enough IT-related human resources.
Cooperation is what is needed to step up the promotion of new teaching technologies. The whole prosess can be understood as Management of Teaching Technology (MTT). Is managing teaching technologies enough? English, or any language at large, cannot be acquired without its active usage. Learning process is thus very important, and the importance leads to necessity for management of learning technology (MLT). MTT and MLT constitute MET.

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