Document Type
Issue Area Two
Abstract
As with so many other issues involving educational change, whether the use of the Internet becomes successfully integrated into instruction depends heavily upon the investment we make in training our staff in its use. Estimates of the amount spent in business and industry to train staff to use new technologies vary widely, but seem to fall within the range of 30¢ to $1 spent on training for every dollar spent on equipment and software. We fall nowhere near even the bottom of that range in education.
Even if unlimited funds were available, training people to do their work a different way is fraught with difficulties. Our superintendent recently compared trying to bring about educational change to "a planned journey through uncharted waters in a leaky boat with a mutinous crew" (Personal communication, Barbara Grohe, October 11, 1994).
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
3
First Page
41
Last Page
43
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1995 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Langhorne, Mary Jo
(1995)
"Driver's Training School for the Information Highway: Staff Development Position Paper,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
3, Article 15.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss3/15
