Effective and efficient use of ICT in provision of higher education

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Title: Effective and efficient use of ICT in provision of higher education
Author(s): Ling, Peter; Arger, Geoff
Abstract: As the first decade of browser access to the World Wide Web closes information and communications technology (ICT) has become a staple in the educational diet of developed countries. The efficacy of ICT in higher education is however still a matter of contention. There are now numerous relative evaluative studies (Kulick and Kulick, 1986 & 1991 provide a summary; also Web-Based Education Commission, 2000) but many of evaluative studies relate only to individual instances of the use of ICT. In some cases these evaluations have been undertaken by parties with a vested interest such as the person responsible for an ICT innovation (see for example Allen et al, 2001; Boles, 1999; Lockyer et al., 1999; and Tapper, 1997). This paper draws on a national investigation of the effectiveness of the use of ICT in flexible provision of higher education in Australia (Ling, Arger et al, 2001) The effectiveness of models of flexible provision of higher education) and upon the emerging conventions concerning ways in which ICT can be used effectively and efficiently in the provision of higher education (Inglis, Ling and Joosten, 2002). There has been available for several years evidence that the use of ICT in education does not generally detract from learning outcomes (Kulick and Kulick, 1986 and 1991). Evidence is now available that ICT can contribute to efficiency in provision of higher education including cost-efficiency (Ling, Arger et al., 2001). The paper identifies critical decisions that need to be made when employing ICT in provision of education and provides some guidelines for the effective and efficient use of ICT.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology
Source: Journal of Institutional Research South East Asia, Vol. 2, no. 1 (Oct 2003), pp. 50-58
Publication year: 2003
FOR Code(s): 1301 Education Systems
Keyword(s): Flexible provision; Higher education; ICT; Information and communications technology
Publisher: South East Asia Association for Institutional Research
ISSN: 1675-6061
Publisher URL: http://www.seaair.au.edu/journal.html
Peer reviewed