- Technology Education Leadership Programme (TELP) - Wednesday July 15 – Friday July 17, 2009
The Technology Education Leadership Programme (TELP) is an annual workshop series designed to widen perspectives and develop leadership skills to enable participants to assume leadership roles in applying learning technology to improve teaching and learning within their institutions.
Target Participants: - The Technology Education Leadership Programme is means for leaders of institutions who have implemented and supported the use of technology in teaching and learning in their institutions as well as leaders who have a vision of integrating technology in their institutions. Leaders expected to attend include Vice Chancellors, Presidents, Rectors, Deans and Faculty heads of higher educational institutions in Ghana i.e. public and private universities, polytechnics, professional institutions, training colleges among others.
Purpose: - To introduce leaders to existing and new educational technologies and to provide them with leadership training to initiate and drive technology integration projects in their respective institutions.
About the programme
The technology education leadership programme would be organised annually during the first half of the year. Topics would be treated by seasoned professionals from various disciplines.
Participants at the workshop would...
- Gain knowledge about themselves and develop their leadership capabilities
- Sharpen their understanding of the expanding influence of learning technology in today's education
- Drive and support teaching and learning initiatives in their institutions
- Explore leadership roles that learning technologists can play on today's campuses,
- Acquire strategies for opening channels of communication across campus constituencies
- learn how to collaborate and negotiate with individuals from different institutional perspectives
- Discover new ways for fostering systemic initiatives
- Identify effective ways to plan for and initiate change within their institution
- Develop insights into career management
General Topics
- The role of ICTs in Education
- The virtual university versus the contemporary university
- Advantages of applying technology to education
- Technologies that would work for Ghana/Africa
- Components of Technology based learning – hardware, software, learning management systems
- Staff Development
- Creating and articulating a vision
- Institutional restructuring
- Change management
- Establishing and managing collaborations
- Leadership
- Understanding the style and context in which decisions are made
- Effective communication
- Relationship building
- Organizational skills
Participation fee: - Information on the cost of attending the workshop will be posted on the site soon.
- Distance Education: - (Wednesday July 22 – Friday July, 24, 2009)
Distance Education is a mode of learning where at least a percentage (usually about 70%) of the direct instruction of the course is delivered utilising some form of technology when the student and faculty member are separated by time, space or both. There is also a hybrid system of education where at least 50% of the course is delivered utilising some form of technology and the remaining 50% delivered by face-to-face mode.
In Ghana, a few institutions have ventured into the area of distance education. What is conspicuously missing from these distance education modules is the technology factor. The integration of technology into distance learning programmes in Ghana will no doubt improve the quality, attract more students and improve the efficiency of these programmes.
Target Participants: - Faculty of higher institutions already running various forms of distance learning programmes as well as institutions desiring to venture into the arena of distance education.
Purpose: - To strengthen the country's distance education by providing training and best practices on using new educational technologies to enhance distance learning. In view of this, participants would experiment first hand distance learning software and would be exposed to best practices around the world in the area of distance education.
General Topics
- An introduction to distance learning
- Effective distance learning methods and implementation
- Making distance learning attractive, exciting and interactive
- Technologies for distance learning
- Designing learning systems
- Resource Mobilisation and Partnership
- Distance education best practices
Venue: - Ghana Telecom University College, Tesano-Accra
Programme: - A formal programme with specific dates and time slots would be posted on the website
Participation fee: - Information on the cost of attending the workshop will be posted on the site soon.
- Mobile learning: -(Wednesday September 16 - Friday September 18, 2009) Mobile learning is a system of learning where portable technologies such as the mobile phone, PDAs (personal digital assistants), MP3 players, portable game devices, handhelds, tablets, and laptops are used in the teaching and learning process. Mobile learning can also be described as a system of learning across context where the focus is on the mobility of the learner. As mobile connectedness continues to sweep across the world, and with the introduction of 3G (third-generation) networks in Ghana and the increasing availability of integrated communications devices that combine telephony, computing, messaging, and multimedia the value of deploying mobile technologies in the service of learning and teaching seems to be both self-evident and unavoidable.
Target Participants: - The mobile technology workshop is targeted at Faculty of higher institutions in Ghana and Africa, tutors of secondary schools and colleges and institutions involved in the training of people with special needs. Corporate organisations as well as companies that provide training for corporate bodies would benefit greatly from this workshop.
Purpose: - This workshop is designed to introduce the possibility of mobile learning as the next stage in the ongoing continuum of technology mediation and to provide training to participants on how devices such as mobile phones as well as other PDA's can be used to enhance the teaching and learning process in schools.
Topics
- An introduction to mobile learning
- What makes mobile learning viable today?
- Current mobile trends in Education
- The future mobile landscape
- Mobile and wireless technology lexicons
Programme: - A formal programme with specific dates and time slots would be posted on the website
Participation fee: - Information on the cost of attending the workshop will be posted on the site soon.
- Instructional Design: - (Wednesday December 16 - Friday December 18, 2009)
Instructional Design is the process by which instruction is improved through the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of learning materials. It is the entire process of analysis of learning needs and goals and the development of a delivery system to meet those needs. It includes development of instructional materials and activities; and tryout and evaluation of all instruction and learner activities.
Target Audience: - This workshop is targeted at educational stakeholders i.e. curriculum developers from the Ghana Education Service as well as faculty of higher institutions, tutors of secondary schools and colleges, heads and faculty of institutions in the area of education for people with special needs.
Purpose: - the purpose of this workshop is to provide educational stakeholders with the skills required to transform the Ghanaian curriculum into practical tools for learners by designing leaning materials that first of all assesses the needs of learners and is tailored to suit those needs
General Topics
- Purpose of Instructional Design
- Principles of Instructional design
- Instructional Design Theories (part 1)
- Instructional Design Models
- Stages of Instructional Design
- Preparing instructional text
- Core competencies, skills, and responsibilities of instructional designers
- Evaluating Instructional outcomes
Programme: - A formal programme with specific dates and time slots would be posted on the website
Participation fee: - Information on the cost of attending the workshop will be posted on the site soon.
