Hi
Something (else) we've been thinking about lately...costing 'cultural
change'.
More specifically, say you had a university of 500 academics, how
many LT Officers would it take to produce 'significant cultural
change'?
We've guesstimated that a single LTO can convert about 10
average academics a year to the joys of LT (ie about one punter a
working month) through training & support /direct development
assistance or a mix of both. By 'convert' BTW, I mean using LT to a
reasonably significant extent in the classroom, not just getting them
to shove some course info in standard templates.
Say we defined 'significant cultural change' as a shift in activity
of 25%, ie 125 academics using LT when before they didn't. It would
take a team of four LTO's three years to achieve this (given some
economies of scale). Thus the Uni would have to fork out £300-350k.
By my dodgy arithmetic the uni would need to spend upward of *a
million quid* to get _all_ its academics to use LT (assuming a
quarter are currently users). Not to mention ongoing maintenance.
Discuss, as they say.... :)
Clive
Dr Clive Young, Learning Technology Support Officer,
ISSS Learning & Web Technologies Group
UMIST PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD
Tel 0161-200 3544, Fax 0161-200 3540
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