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2 Planning for Uncertainty
2 Planning for Uncertainty
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During Desert 1A consulting firm that provides strategic planning, scenario planning, and policy forecasting services to public and private clients.
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To further illustrate his point that one cannot reliably plan for an uncertain future 20 TABLE 2-l Changing Benchmarks Benchmark 1 990 2000 Number of Web Pages Dow Jones Industrial Average on January 3 Soviet Union 0 Millions 2,8 1 0 1 1,358 Exists Does not exist SOURCE: Schwartz, 2000. by simply extrapolating from current trencis, Schwartz presented data on dramatic technological, economic, anc3 political changes that have taken place over the past clecacle (see Table 2-1~.
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They would base their evaluations on assessments of student learning gains and might also assess learning among faculty and instructors involved in innovative courses. This process would help educators and researchers to identify those educational approaches that have been shown to enhance student learning.
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One possibility is development of new cost-sharing mechanisms, such as "educational maintenance organizations," modeled on HMO's Direction of change in new institutional arrangements Cultural attitudes towards innovations in SME&T education Professional values 22
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Although evidence of the benefits of IT-enabled innovations in SME&T education is growing, Dede said that "tough" assessments are needed to demonstrate that the new educational paradigm really enhances student learning. These multiple indicators may include data gathered by the instructors of courses as well as data obtained by outside evaluators.
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Some suggested basing tenure, salaries, sabbaticals, and other employment decisions on indicators of teaching quality, as well as research. These indicators might include publications in new journals focusing on pedagogy, peer review by master teachers, the number of publishable papers produced by students, and employers' views of graduates.
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Andries van Dam asserted that the NSF typically funds educational technology research in $100,000 grants over one or two years, and argued that these amounts were 25
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The Pew Learning and Technology Program, housed at RPI, is currently using these funds to provide financial and technical support to other institutions that wish to "undertake substantial systemic change." Wilson emphasized that the new program does not simply provide funding, but also works actively with institutions to ensure that IT is used in ways that reduce costs and enhance learning (Bartscherer, 2001 )
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First, Christopher Tucker noted that private firms are rapidly deploying broadband networks for business and residential customers, yet little is known about the educational potential of these networks. He said that the growing availability of broadband raises fundamental questions about how best to tap its potential to enhance learning.
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The overall project is designed to enable educational decision makers to make rational and strategic decisions about how they purchase and use education technology. Just as SEMATECH helped supply firms better understand the needs of the chip makers to whom they sold, the II-IT project seeks to empower the education community to drive the development of hardware and software tools that meet the needs of children and educators alike.
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