Abstract
Educational technology plans are emerging rapidly across North America at the national, state or province, school district, and school levels, these plans provide a wealth of useful information on how policy makers and educators are planning to shape the future of education using technology.
An environmental scan or search of educational technology plans revealed a wide variety of planning approaches. To initiate discussion about which important aspects of educational technology planing would provide the best indicators of a significant educational technology plan: five indicators are proposed. These indicators are: scope of planning, type of planning, stage of education-technology evolution, time horizon, and results of planning.
Forty-three documents were identified and these were grouped into reports, visions, and plans. The environmental scan indicated that most plans do not enter the formal literature databases and are therefore difficult to locate. About 80% of the documents identified were located using informal means. To illustrate the state of educational technology planning, thirteen educational technology reports, visions, and plans were identified, analyzed, and described.
Most educational technology plans reflect an educational technology stage II of technology evolution. In general, there was little evidence to indicate that educational technology plans utilize the potential of technology to transform and/or restructure education.
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Blair, W.G. (1993). Educational Technology Planning: Scanning the North American K-12 Education Environment. In: Reigeluth, C.M., Banathy, B.H., Olson, J.R. (eds) Comprehensive Systems Design: A New Educational Technology. NATO ASI Series, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58035-2_31
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