1. Challenges of
Technology
in Education
By Ofelia M. Carague
Presented to
Dr. Maria Theresa P. Pelones
CITE 3S Adviser

2. Many universities are making
substantial in new technologies for
teaching purposes. The increasing
east of use and improved
presentational and interactive
features of technologies such as
the World Wide Web are leading
many academics to use technology
for teaching for the first time in a
significant manner (Bates, 1997).

3. Some characteristics of the development in teaching
and learning in higher education according to
Bates, 1999:
•Increased flexibility and access to learning,
resulting in new mancets being reached, and in
particular, the lifelong learner market.
•The use of multimedia to develop psycho-motor
and intellectual skills development, including
problem-solving and decision making.

4. •The use internet technology to develop
knowledge management and collaborative
learning skills.
•The use of internet to develop global,
multi-cultural courses and problems.

5. Why use technology?
•To improve access to education and training
•To improve the quality of learning
•To reduce the costs of education
•To improve the cost-effectiveness of education

6. Twelve Organizational Strategies for
Change.
1. A vision for teaching and learning
2. Funding Re-allocation
3. Strategies for Inclusion
4. Technology Infrastructure
5. People Infrastructure

7. 6. Student Computer Access
7. New Teaching Models
8. Faculty Agreements and
Training
9. Project Management
10. New Organizational
Structures
11. Collaboration and Consortia
12. Research and Evaluation

8. Conclusions:
•Understand that there are many different
clients, needs or markets for
knowledge, teaching and learning.
•The role of both learners and teachers
will change in order to exploit the benefits
that technology can bring to learning.
•As we move to representing knowledge in
various ways through technology, it will
change the nature of our understanding.

9. Sources:
•Investing in Online Learning: Potential Benefits and
Limitations, Silvia Bartolic-Zlomistic and A.W.Bates, 1999.
•Educational Multimedia in a Networked Society, A.W.
Bates, 1994.
•Distance Learning Looking Into the Crystal Ball, Judith V.
Boettcher, 1994.
•The Impact of New Media on Academic Knowledge, Dr.
A.W.Bates, 1999.
•Restructing the University for Technological Change, Dr.
A.W.Bates, 1997.