Specialists in instructional design and related areas of education and technology present 18 case studies of educational technology projects conducted in elementary and secondary schools, higher education, healthcare, business, government, and military settings throughout the anglophone world. They use a project management framework, though the projects themselves vary widely in the degree to which formal project management processes and tools were used. Among the topics are producing learning resources for studying information technology with limited project management capacity, project management methods for implementing an online faculty development course, an integrated management approach in a higher education technology support unit, a blended learning approach to refresher training in clinical psychology supervision, and implementing simulators to facilitate learning for initial entry soldiers.
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Cases on Educational Technology Planning, Design, and Implementation: A Project Management Perspective is a highly recommendable book that is well-organized, and well-written, and well-integrated. It illustrates the wide range of applications of educational technologies in a way that will inform readers, instructors, students, educators and researchers in scanning the comprehensive spectrum of current trends and investigating ways to improve education quality. The cases, terms and notions covered are described in simple and comprehensible language, using grounded and intelligible examples. In this context, it is only logical to conclude that this book will be of particular interest and utility to a wide range of readers.
– Chia-Wen Tsai, Pei-Di Shen, and Yi-Chun Chiang (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan)