This blog is to explore issues of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Ghana.
- What are the transformation potentials?
- What roles and impacts?
- What are the challenges?
- What is its role in Distance Education?
- How has been the adoption rate in higher education?
- Are lecturers integrating its capabilities in the universities and other tertiary institutions?
- How are students using ICT to access course documents, communicate with professors, submit assignments, etc.?
- What are the potential benefits - to students, lecturers, the university as a whole?
Any of these issues can be explored. Relevant Links to resources are welcome!
JAL
Technology and the Instructional Design Process..., Jim Finn writes:
- ''The good old days are gone; approached with intelligence and zest, the days of the future will be better."The cost of civilization is
the fact that we can make wrong choices because of the alternative
technology presents. The reward of civilization is the freedom provided
by technology and the opportunity to make the right choices."
Hoban, C.F. , Hoban, C.F. Jnr & Zisman, S.B. (1930s) suggested that "if the abstraction is to possess a richness of meaningful content, the concrete must precede the abstract in breadth, depth, and variety towards progressive stages of abstraction", in a context where audio-visual is integrated in teaching.
How far have we come with the application of multimedia in a) instructional design, and b) automated and education?
Jo
