Past Objectives and Themes of NCITE
Past Objectives
NCITE™'s primary goal is to help create and extend the theoretical foundation for using technology in education. In achieving that goal, we are pursuing the following objectives:
- Through research, develop rules and methods for effectively using technology in teaching and learning
- Through research, develop methods and technologies to measure the impact of technology on teaching and learning
- Pursue and support technical standards that result in sharing of content, assessment tools, and data gathering without regard to the computer platform
- Create tomorrow's expert developers and appliers
- MS and PhD programs
- Appliers: Major in Education, Minor in Computer Science
- Developers: Major in Computer Science, Minor in Education
Past Themes
NCITE™'s Planning Team developed three themes to engender and guide program and project development. Themes are intended to be cross-organization and cross-discipline.
- Research and Development: The role of technology in teaching and learning -- developing the pedagogical basis
- How can and how should technology support learning?
- How can and how should technology support teaching?
- What are effective, appropriate and necessary technology-based tools to aid in assessing the effectiveness of teaching, the quality of learning, and the efficacy of technology?
- Research and Development: Interrelationship of technology, education, and society
- What are the societal and public policy issues that affect the use of technology in education?
- What are the approaches and mechanisms to overcome the effective use of technology in education?
- Moving research into practice: people and tools
- Create university-level programs to develop technical expertise in the creation of educational technology. Establish programs for computer scientists and software engineers that provide substantial foundation in education practice and learning theory.
- Create university-level programs to improve expertise among educators in developing content for delivery through educational technology.
- Improve programs that train educators to apply educational technology and to assess its impact.
- Develop, adapt, and evaluate educational technology tools.
