Day 2, NetHui 2012, held at Sky City Convention Centre, 11-13 July 2012. Individual and societal expectations of technology seem to grow much faster than the budget to fund them. Demands for more access (both devices and bandwidth) grow with these expectation and yet the funding often does not. What are education institutions doing to manage and cope? Some examples include implementing a “Bring your own device” (BYOD) policy, making more use of open source/standards/data or joining in on syndicated procurements such as the all of government approach to ICT, etc? How is this working for you? What issues or needs still remain unmet?
In the use of technologies we have a growing focus on true costs of implementation and change management, especially the training of teachers and learners to use the technology effectively. How well are you managing here? What is working? Are there systemic issues that need remedying?
Then at the end of life how should we dispose of any hardware in a responsible way? Are the right incentives, systems and structures in place to cater for this? Are we modelling the right behaviour to those learning from us?
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