Above is an infographic I made in easyl.ly page to summarize my key points for applying new education technologies into education institutions.
In Vietnam, schooling, or education, may be one industry where almost its institutions can long live forever. It's hard to find any exceptional case of school which was bankrupt or closed. But on the other hand, there are many and many schools out there are left behind the information and telecommunication technologies adoption wave, and became somehow out-of-dated, which badly impacts on students, mainly. Institution leaders, especially from private sector, rarely find the importance and benefit of this trend, but just over-estimate its down sides. It's no doubt that ICT adoption will reduce the profit margin of school owners at first, and it's also require a lot of time and efforts to implement. But let's think in a long-term vision, ICT will add great value to school's competitive advantages, as well as improve effectiveness and productivity thereby increasing the profit margin later. Last but not least, ICT has a positive influence on social and humanity aspects, say, inspires and connects people.
Just a quick insight on why ICT is worthy to invest and implement in schools, now it's time for me to explain my suggested roadmap to apply EdTechs in Vietnam schools, including 6 basic steps:
- Step 1: Status analysis to collect facts and figures about school key performance indicators as well as other statistical information, by conducting surveys, and revising historical data. The output of this step will give us an overview on how the subjected school performs, how ICT are applied there, and how all stakeholders think and feel about the school.
* Stakeholders mention all group of people make or get the influences such as school owners, principles, teachers, students, other employees, etc.
- Step 2: Define problems and goals by pointing out which aspect we wish to improve, or which target we desire to achieve. It's not just a simple statement, but has to be place in a complex context including budget, feasibility, availability to consider thoroughfully.
* Availability here should be some essential skills or knowledge to adapt new process or technology. For example, teacher should have intermediate English level to get familiar with new educational application.
- Step 3: Define prerequisites and KPIs to well adopt and measure the result. Any action requires some preparation. For example, a prerequisite to apply Google for Education should be English level. On the other hand, we should standardize criteria to measure result of our actions.
* KPIs: key performance indicators, popular terms regarding to performance measurement.
- Step 4-5: Planning and Action. Based on all artifacts we got thru previous steps, we draw our action plan to define periods, action details, goal, stakeholder, etc, then we conduct the plan.
- Step 6: Feedback and Retrospective. At this step, feedbacks from all stakeholders are collected to analysize our pros and cons of what implemented, then we make improvements in next periods.
Note that the road map actually is not a straight line from one end to another, but a circle that is done time to time. Due to the limitation of an article length, I can't provide more tedious info for every step, so please contact me if you would like to know more details.
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