Evolving Instructional Technology Partnerships between Universities and Schools: Mutual Needs, Different Challenges
Abstract: Forming technology partnerships between universities and public schools in an era of increasingly complex technologies, educational competition and economic difficulty is a necessity. For a university instructional technology program/school partnership to be successful, the partnership must be based on mutual needs and value. This presentation examines how the needs of instructional technology graduate programs and public schools may both be addressed despite many challenges both sides are facing. This presentation will overview several successful models of partnerships as well as address some of the major challenges which are imminent in the instructional technology field, such as how university programs grow and react to new synchronous and asynchronous learning methods, open courses, MOOCs and the digital divides (social inequalities) which still exist among and between some schools, teachers and students.
Presider: Vibha Sharma, The Open University, Netherlands