Information Technology in Educational Management for the Schools of the Future

This book is for both specialist and generalist. For Information Technology (IT) and Educational Management (EM) researchers, it brings together the latest information and analysis of ITEM projects in eleven countries. But the issues raised by this collection of papers are so important for schools, school systems and the future of education that it is essential reading not only for researchers but also for teachers, administrators and all concerned with the planning and governance of our education systems. New technologies may improve our lives in two ways: by enabling us to do things better (accomplishing what we do already more efficiently) and by enabling us to do better things (accomplishing new things that we were not able to do before). Sometimes "doing things better" merges into "doing better things". Thus in the 19th century the coming of the railway enabled our forbears to accomplish their existing journies in less time and in greater comfort. But it also opened up the prospect of new journies to more distant places, and led ultimately to far-reaching changes in lifestyles in new, commuter settlements far from the old city centres. So it is in the present day with Information Technology in Educational Management. Some of the papers in this volume focus on specialist tasks, for example how to develop a computer-based decision-support system to help those drawing up school timetables. Others address situations in which the power of the technology offers us the potential to change radically what we do.

Autorentext

Ben-Zion Barta is with Bar-Code Computers Ltd., Israel

Klappentext

This book portrays the potential of Information Technology in the educational management of schools. It collates and presents research results from all over the world and discusses the latest developments for the future. This book aims to address the following questions: what do schools of the future have to face? what can we learn from research about ITEM? what are the cultural, organizational, managerial and technical issues that need to be addressed? This book will be of interest to all those concerned with ITEM, especially school management staff, researchers and system designers.

Inhalt

1. Quo Vadis? Internet.- 2. Internet support to school innovation management.- 3. The impact of internet on ITEM: educational management in preparation for the future.- 4. Information technology a tool and an obstacle in the education of the future.- 5. Information technology in educational management of tomorrow's school.- 6. Technological facilitation for decision-making in education.- 7. Potential contributions of management science to expert information systems in schools.- 8. Facilities for computer-supported decision-making in schools: explanations for lack of use and proposals for improvement.- 9. Information systems effectiveness and organisational culture: an underlying.model for ITEM evaluation.- 10. The impact of organizational culture on the success of information technology projects.- 11. Implementation of the School Administration and Management System: a Hong Kong experience.- 12. An operational model for the implementation of computerised school information systems.- 13. Administration, management and IT in education.- 14. Evaluation of ITEM for proactive development.- 15. Distributed ITEM for the future: moving towards client-server systems.- 16. Developing information systems for schools of the future.- 17. TESS: An interactive support system for school timetabling.- 18. The intelligent discussion supporting system over the computer network.- 19. Benchmarking for education managers.- 20. Support system for Chinese language teachers: a case of ITEM in support of teaching.- 21. An educational tool for planning and monitoring the teaching-learning process in Dutch secondary education.- 22. Electronic learning contract for the assessment of projects in information systems.- 23. System modelling of ITEM: re-engineering of educational processes.-24. The preconditions for computer-assisted decision-making in tomorrow's schools.- 25. Impact of information and communication technology on the management of future schools.- 26. Evaluation strategy for ITEM quality.- Index of Contributors.- Keyword Index.