Results and experience from the application of a common methodology for Users Requirements Specification in Distance Education using Telematics

TitleResults and experience from the application of a common methodology for Users Requirements Specification in Distance Education using Telematics
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1998
AuthorsBouras, C, Spirakis, P, Lampsas, P, Tsakarissianos, G, Garofalakis, J, Antonis, K, Kastis, N, Kontogiannis, S
JournalJournal of Technology and Teacher Education -JTATE, AACE, Vol. 6, Issue 1
Pagination 61 - 74
Abstract

The cooperation of the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and the Educational communities, is
recognised as a necessity that must result in the adaptation and tuning of the education processes in terms of
pedagogical methodologies, school infrastructure, human resources development and organisational restructuring, in
order to efficiently absorb and utilize technological developments. The ICT community has to realize the significance
of the users’ needs, the difficulties of the intervention to an old and traditional process. And the need to view their
technology applications not only as a technical exercise. The initial phases of the TRENDS project, which are
described in this paper, resulted in an agreed common methodology for carrying out the necessary investigation of
the user needs in secondary education. This methodology, which was followed more or less in all participating
countries, produced answers to questions concerning the role of the educators and their basic training, their
familiarity with technology, education policies from a trans-European perspective, the content, forms and aims of
further training, the distance training of teachers in the use of new technologies, the motives, incentives and
organisational schemes for enhancing re-education, the needs of the educational environment and technology-based
training, the needs of the educators in practical didactic methods, etc.

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