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Information Technology and Managing Quality Education

9th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management, ITEM 2010, Kasane, Botswana, July 26-30, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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  1. Arthur Tatnall

    1. Victoria Graduate School of Business, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Omponye Coach Kereteletswe

    1. Public Service Reforms Unit, Office of the President, Gaborone, Botswana

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  3. Adrie Visscher

    1. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 348)

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Managing Quality Education – Identifying the Learning Needs of the Individual, Then Satisfying Them

    • Don Passey
    Pages 1-10

  3. Value Chain of Technology in Higher Education Institutions: From IT Resources to Technological Performance

    • Jacques Bulchand-Gidumal, Santiago Melián-González, Javier Osorio-Acosta
    Pages 11-19

  4. Using Information Technology to Promote Thinking

    • Maree A. Skillen
    Pages 20-29

  5. Age, Gender and Culture as Correlates of Use of Knowledge Management Systems in Makerere University

    • F. E. K. Bakkabulindi, B. Sekabembe
    Pages 30-42

  6. Managing the Online Student Experience: An Ecological Model

    • Bill Davey, Arthur Tatnall
    Pages 43-51

  7. Using Open Source Software for Improving Dialog in Computer Science Education – Case Mozambique University

    • Nicholas B. Mavengere, Mikko J. Ruohonen
    Pages 52-61

  8. A Baseline for a School Management Information System

    • Alan Strickley
    Pages 62-74

  9. Implementation of the Technological Plan for Education in Portugal, a School Perspective

    • António Castro, Leonel Santos
    Pages 75-85

  10. In Search of a Conceptual Framework for the Capacities of University ITEM

    • Ronald Bisaso
    Pages 86-94

  11. Bridging the Knowledge Gap for African Researchers through Open Access Publishing: The Case of African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO)

    • Beatrice Sekabembe, Jude Ssempebwa
    Pages 95-103

  12. Moving towards 2020: A Tentative Approach to ITEM

    • Javier Osorio, Jacques Bulchand
    Pages 104-112

  13. Innovation or Renovation? The Management of Strategic and Adoption Decisions within a University

    • Arthur Tatnall, Karen Manning
    Pages 113-120

  14. The ‘Educational Lot’ for Young People Who Are NEET: Quality Management and Roles of Management Information Systems

    • Don Passey
    Pages 121-129

  15. Emerging Issues in the Utilization of Synchronous ICT in the Delivery of Distance Education at Public Universities in Uganda

    • Rita Nankanja, Ronald Bisaso
    Pages 130-138

  16. eLearning Attitudes in Botswana’s Private Sector

    • Paul T. Nleya
    Pages 139-148

  17. Using Information Technology in Education to Manage a Professional Learning Community (PLC)

    • Maree A. Skillen
    Pages 149-155

  18. Does Personality Type Affect Teachers’ Information Systems Utilization in Pedagogy? The Makerere University Lecturers’ Experience

    • David Kabugo
    Pages 156-165

  19. Optimization Technique for Implementation of Blended Learning in Constrained Low Bandwidth Environment

    • Nazir Ahmad Suhail, Jude Lubega
    Pages 166-173

  20. The GES Connect Digitally Programme: Shaping Parental Engagement through Technology

    • Alan Strickley, Tim Spiers
    Pages 174-185
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management, ITEM 2010, held in Kasane, Botswana, in July 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected. The papers cover a wide range of topics addressing the utilization of ICT at different levels of education from primary education to higher education, such as identifying and satisfying learning needs, strategical management, school management information systems, open source software, and the relationship between ICT and organizational performance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Victoria Graduate School of Business, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Arthur Tatnall

  • Public Service Reforms Unit, Office of the President, Gaborone, Botswana

    Omponye Coach Kereteletswe

  • University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Adrie Visscher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Information Technology and Managing Quality Education

  • Book Subtitle: 9th IFIP WG 3.7 Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management, ITEM 2010, Kasane, Botswana, July 26-30, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

  • Editors: Arthur Tatnall, Omponye Coach Kereteletswe, Adrie Visscher

  • Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19715-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-19714-7Published: 10 March 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26739-0Published: 21 April 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-19715-4Published: 11 March 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4238

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-422X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 206

  • Topics: Computers and Education, Computers and Society, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

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