INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATIONS in CULI
Associate Professor
Annabel Bhamani Kajornboon
November 30, 2001
CULI National Seminar November 29-30, 2001
Information Age
• Banking transaction
• Office management
• Computer games
• Word processing
• Internet
• Academic field--language learning/teaching
CU
as an educational institution
must keep abreast with the technology
CULI must too
CU
• Pacesetter
• Leader (http://chula.ac.th/about/mission)
CULI (1977)
• Division of English for
Social Science and Humanities
• Division of English for Business
• Division of English for Science and
Technology
(All divisions teach FE I & II)
IT Roles
• Hangman/tic-tac-toe
• Commercialized
• Internet--create own teaching
materials (managing)
Innovation
• “Innovation is an idea , practice or object that
is perceived as new to an individual or
another unit of adoption.” (Roger 1995:11)
• Monkey see and monkey do
• Make it a way of life
• Define challenges
A Model of Stages in the
Innovation-Decision Process
COMMUNICATIOIN
CHANNELS
Interviews’ with Experts
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Hardware, software supplied
Technical staff
Some motivation to learn and use IT
Set own goals not machine or technical side to
dictate what has to be done
• Policy driven
Staff Development
• Ensure that the staff learn and develop
• Growth of organization
• Response to a changing environment
adopt/reject
• Motivate staff
• Applicable to teaching/learning
Instructional Design Criteria
• People’s creation
• Introduce computers
• Familiarize
• Acceptance
• Training/PD
• Roles
The machine should not dictate
what has to be done.