Changing the Education Culture through Technology (original) (raw)

Technology has a potentially rich, but largely unre alised, role in teaching and learning. This role is defined variously by what the teacher has available, has had time to learn, or can find an appropriate use for, and by what studen ts have access to, are familiar with, and are willing to use. In all of these ways, techn ology usually plays an adjunct role to others, more traditional modalities for teaching an d learning, including lecture, laboratory, library, textbook, tutorial, and practi cum. Researchers perceive problems arising from the sign ificant cultural and organisational differences affecting the management and leadership environment of the modern higher education institutions integrating technology in re lation to traditional higher education institutions. This present study describes and anal yzes the culture effects in higher education organisations that are challenging the fu ture pre-eminence of the use of technological tools in teaching in higher education . This...