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The
mission of the Association
for Educational Communications and
Technology
is to provide leadership in these disciplines by
linking professionals holding a common interest in
technology and its application to the learning
process. To assist in this, the Division on
Systemic Change exists within AECT primarily to
advocate fundamental changes in educational
practice to improve learning and to enable
technology to achieve its potential for supporting
this improvement.
For AECT and the institutions and communities its
members serve, an understanding of the
interdependence of hardware, software,
infrastructure, pedagogy, learning skills, and
teacher training in our educational systems is
essential. Our current information-based
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society
necessitates a comprehensive redesign of our
educational system. Educational technology is a key
player in this change process. It is important to
learn not only to manage it--to implement
educationally sound applications of technology--but
also to guide and facilitate the evolution of
instructional systems
in which such innovation will survive and
flourish.
CHANGE is committed to helping AECT, its members,
and the organizations they serve meet this
challenge head-on. Facilitators of change,
working alongside parents, community leaders, and
other stakeholders, can craft learning systems
where students, empowered by educational
communications and technology, can achieve
their full potential.
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..to
serve those who are interested in systemic change
in education in a wide variety of environments,
including public and private schools, businesses,
government, higher education, and technical
institutes.
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Systemic
change is comprehensiveÖ In educationÖit
must include the nature of the learning
experiences, the instructional system that
implements those learning experiences, the
administrative system that supports the
instructional system, and the governance system
that governs the whole educational system.
Banathy, B.H. (1991). Systems Design of
Education: A Journey to Create the
Future. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational
Technology Publications.
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