Facilitating a Total System Approach
to Education Technology Planning and Implementation

 
 
 
 

ITEG: A Company Perspective

The Integrated Technology Education Group believes that expenditures can be optimized, student outcome improved and the total learning experience excited by incorporating education technology as part of an integrated education system. This requires facilitating the linkage between building design, classroom environment, teacher training, technology application, and more. 
 
  A systems approach facilitates a vigorous process of analysis, adoption, modification and optimization. It also provides opportunities for a close working relationship between the academic community, government agencies and the providers of technology and supporting services. 

Al Zeisler -- President, ITEG, LLC

Providing support to education related organizations since 1995

 

The teaching/learning process is optimized by attention to small details; the challenge is to know which details count.

 

A Systems Approach to a Technology Rich Learning Environment

Planning is required for many reasons, the primary being to provide an opportunity to consider the multitude of "what if" questions arise before the actual event occurs. 
 

IA systems approach to planning offers many advantages, including:

• definition of areas of responsibility;

• careful deliberations of expectations, and the best means to satisfy these needs;

• accurate and relevant product and service interface definition;

• a higher level of documentation quality;

• an increased recognition of the importance of schedule compliance;

• increased  team cooperation;

• improved cost predictability ...and lower total cost, and

• a MUCH higher probability of program success.

 

With data you know if you have reached your goal; Without data you can only hope

In the engineering profession each component of a system is recognized as possibly affecting another.  The same is true in education.   A systems approach to the education process, with an emphasis on the relationship between classroom design, student comfort, professional training, technology use, and budget constraints will optimize student outcome.  

The ITEG team role is to be the catalyst for an invigorated education system based on the appropriate application of 21st Century technology, and proven 20th Century methods.  

Policy decisions should be based on data and quantitative analysis.  Over the long term data and facts win!  

 

 

 

11/16/11

 

 

 

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