Integration of Instructional Technology in Zimbabwe, Sub-Sahara Africa

ISBN-13: 9783639129830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str.

Rodwell Chitiyo

Opis

Continuous innovations in instructional technologies(ITs) are having an impact on teaching and learningin todays classroom. The merging of Internet-basedtechnologies into the multi- and hyper-mediacapability of the computer has changed the wayeducators and students inquire, communicate andconstruct knowledge. However, there is littlepublished literature on the integration of these ITsin Zimbabwe and Sub-Sahara Africa. This book is partof the genesis of IT research in the region, andexamines the integration of IT in Zimbabwe.Conceptualization of IT is largely as hardware innature and from a narrow systems view, andintegration was at the Entry and Adoption stages.Constraints ranged from poor availability and accessto technological tools and lack of funding, to theabsence of an IT integration policy framework, andlack of appropriate initial and continuous staffdevelopment. Insights gleaned should be useful topolicymakers, professionals, practitioners andscholars interested in IT integration in Zimbabwe andthe region. From a global perspective, this book willadd to the limited knowledge and literature on ITintegration in "developing" and/or low-income countries.

O autorze

Rodwell Chitiyo, PhD: Studied Instructional Technology as Georgia
State University, (USA). A Fulbright and ODASSS scholar, he holds
a B. Ed, Dip. Edu. Tech. (Zimbabwe) and M. A. (London). He is a
faculty member at Africa University in Zimbabwe, and currently
adjunct assistant professor of Instructional Technology at Troy
University in Atlanta, USA.