Write a report for an educational organization on the development of a high quality and sustainable e-Learning environment. In the report you should: Identify your vision for e-Learning within the educational institution; briefly explain how this vision differs from current practice; and prepare a detailed analysis of the key issues that must be addressed and the roles and responsibilities of leaders and managers in addressing those issues. Your analysis should identify strengths and weaknesses in relation to theoretical perspectives and examples of good practice that you have encountered
Let me give you an idea of the organization you would be focusing the report on: my organization is a public secondary school own and funded by the state government.
However, its day to day administration is ran by the principle who is the head of management. we have got over 20 non teaching staff, 38 teaching staff and with over 374 student. when is comes to the use of ICT in teaching and learning, our school is yet to fully integrate e-learning in her educational system. the traditional teaching method continues to dominate in my school. current practices
The e-learning techniques mostly adopted in our school are in form of prepared lectures on a CD-ROM that can be played as at when the need arises. This has limited advantage because of the number of students per computer system in which most of this facilities are not interactive enough as compare with when the lecture is been receive in real time over the internet.
The intranet facilities adopted in our schools are not well maintained because of its high cost of running especially in the absence of adequate power supply.
Mostly, the students took the challenges upon themselves to go to the public internet cafes where there exist diverse attentions because of people with diverse interest on the net at the same time. The bandwidth shared on various systems at the cafes is very low hence; a multimedia interactive lecture will not be obtainable because of low bandwidth. The population of student is enormous and the facilities are inadequate Though, most of the institutions of higher learning in our state have started building their ICT centres but the focus is mainly to put up an internet facility alone without considering other components that made up e-learning centre.
The following challenges have been identified as the main problems that militate against E-learning integration in our school.
Inadequate Power supply Inadiquet infrastructure Lack of knowledgeable manpower Internet connectivity problems Efficacy of service providers Affordability of computer hardware, software and other accessories Depth of knowledge and skills of internet operation Cost of accessing internet and production of hard copy