Information Technology in Educational Management for the Schools of the Future

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Key Note Speech

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Quo Vadis? — Internet

      • Elizabeth Wong

      Pages 3-4

3. Tomorrow Schools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Internet support to school innovation management

      • B. Z. Barta, M. Telem

      Pages 7-14

   3. The impact of internet on ITEM: educational management in preparation for the future

      • A. C. W. Fung, S. W. Pun

      Pages 15-22

   4. Information technology — a tool and an obstacle in the education of the future

      • M. Mäkelä

      Pages 23-30

   5. Information technology in educational management of tomorrow’s school

      • M. Telem, B. Z. Barta, K. D. Levin

      Pages 31-37

4. Computer-assisted Decision-making

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. Technological facilitation for decision-making in education

      • D. W. Spuck, A. J. MacNeil, D. L. Prater, D. B. Palumbo

      Pages 41-51

   3. Potential contributions of management science to expert information systems in schools

      • R. G. Taylor

      Pages 52-56

   4. Facilities for computer-supported decision-making in schools: explanations for lack of use and proposals for improvement

      • A. J. Visscher

      Pages 57-62

5. Organisational Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Information systems effectiveness and organisational culture: an underlying model for ITEM evaluation

      • C. D. O’Mahony

      Pages 65-72

   3. The impact of organizational culture on the success of information technology projects

      • M. G. Reyes

      Pages 73-79

6. Evaluation & Implementation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Implementation of the School Administration and Management System: a Hong Kong experience

      • B. C. H. Ip Tsang, S. Y. F. Lee

      Pages 83-89

   3. An operational model for the implementation of computerised school information systems

      • C. J. P. Nolan, D. A. Ayres, D. H. Mckinnon

      Pages 90-97

   4. Administration, management and IT in education

      • I. D. Selwood, H. Drenoyianni

      Pages 98-104

   5. Evaluation of ITEM for proactive development

      • P. Wild, A. C. W. Fung

      Pages 105-114

This book is for both specialist and generalist. For Information Technology (IT) and Educational Management (EM) researchers, it brings together the latest information and analysis of ITEM projects in eleven countries. But the issues raised by this collection of papers are so important for schools, school systems and the future of education that it is essential reading not only for researchers but also for teachers, administrators and all concerned with the planning and governance of our education systems. New technologies may improve our lives in two ways: by enabling us to do things better (accomplishing what we do already more efficiently) and by enabling us to do better things (accomplishing new things that we were not able to do before). Sometimes "doing things better" merges into "doing better things". Thus in the 19th century the coming of the railway enabled our forbears to accomplish their existing journies in less time and in greater comfort. But it also opened up the prospect of new journies to more distant places, and led ultimately to far-reaching changes in lifestyles in new, commuter settlements far from the old city centres. So it is in the present day with Information Technology in Educational Management. Some of the papers in this volume focus on specialist tasks, for example how to develop a computer-based decision-support system to help those drawing up school timetables. Others address situations in which the power of the technology offers us the potential to change radically what we do.

• Evaluation
• Information Technology (IT)
• computer
• learning
• management
• organization
• technology

• Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

  Alex C. W. Fung

• Faculty of Educational Science and Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

  Adrie J. Visscher

• Ministry of Education, Jerusalem, Israel

  Ben-Zion Barta

• Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

  David C. B. Teather

Ben-Zion Barta is with Bar-Code Computers Ltd., Israel

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