CHANGE and AECT: Partnership for the Future
The mission of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology is to provide leadership in these disciplines by linking professionals holding a common interest in technology and its application to the learning process. To assist in this, the Division on Systemic Change exists within AECT primarily to advocate fundamental changes in educational practice to improve learning and to enable technology to achieve its potential for supporting this improvement.
For AECT and the institutions and communities its members serve, an understanding of the interdependence of hardware, software, infrastructure, pedagogy, learning skills, and teacher training in our educational systems is essential. Our current information-based society necessitates a comprehensive redesign of our educational system. Educational technology is a key player in this change process. It is important to learn not only to manage it–to implement educationally sound applications of technology–but also to guide and facilitate the evolution of instructional systems in which such innovation will survive and flourish.
CHANGE is committed to helping AECT, its members, and the organizations they serve meet this challenge head-on. Facilitators of change, working alongside parents, community leaders, and other stakeholders, can craft learning systems where students, empowered by educational communications and technology, can achieve their full potential.
CHANGE Division Mission
To serve those who are interested in systemic change in education in a wide variety of environments, including public and private schools, businesses, government, higher education, and technical institutes.
What is Systemic Change?
Systemic change is comprehensive. In education, it must include the nature of the learning experiences, the instructional system that implements those learning experiences, the administrative system that supports the instructional system, and the governance system that governs the whole educational system.
From: Banathy, B.H. (1991). Systems Design of Education: A Journey to Create the Future. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Last Modified: August 28, 2006
by William Watson, Communications Officer
©2006 AECT Division on Systemic Change
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Bloomington, IN 47404
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