The Goals

Goal 1

"Pursue Excellence in Instruction"

The goal 1 talks about a program and new courses that the university will offer. For me, we must have that courses because we are now a university. The university must contain lots of courses to be offer to their students. But the university must provide a proper facilities for teaching and learning process. They must give a conducive room so that they can focus and they can really learn.

Goal 2

"Pursue Excellence in Research"

Everyone can have their research. But if we talk about the research that we can represent our university we really need a conducive area or room for research. I will really appreciate if they can make that goal 2 visible in the future. It can really help for the researchers to have that kind of environment.

Goal 3

"Pursue Excellence in Extension"

For the goal 3, its nice that they have plans for the extensions schools. Because it is one way to be recognized the extension school. Mostly extension school are not really recognized because they think that the standard of the main school is more high than the extension school. This is one way to change the wrong thoughts of the people about the extension school.

Goal 4

"Establish the Center of Energy and Environment"

Though research extension and development establishing the center of energy and environment is possible, but the university should consider many things such as money or financial, time, and it includes students. We need them towards the development of energy research with in the school. With out them they cant make goal 4 possible.

Goal 5

"Promote Student Affairs, Welfare and Sucess"

I like the idea of goal 4 because, it can help to bring back the expectations of the university. Like the statement in number 5 “ strengthen the reward system for student achievements”. Student is the most important stakeholders in the university. Without us the university will not function. They must recognized so that they will develop physically and mentally.

Goal 6

"Maximize Library and other Resources Support to the Teaching, Learning, and Research Environment"

The university need this goal 6. it really help the students in their learning process. It also help to improve the students and teacher to easily access in the library and e-lib. If this goal will be possible he students will now longer go to the Internet cafe just to make their projects.

Goal 7

"Implement Massive Infrastructure Development"

I like this goal because the students, teachers and the faculties really need it. Like the student dormitory, the student really need that specially the students who are not living in the city. As a competitive university we should improve our building or rooms.

Goal 8

"Implement Massive Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Development"

For me, we really need this fully automate management information systems because it is useful to us students and also it help the university to increased the expectation of the people or in community around the university.

Goal 9

"Pursue Outstanding Human and Organizational Development"

This goal is very important. The university must recruit an outstanding teachers and staff so that they can teach or facilitate will the most important stakeholders of the university.

Goal 10

"Ensure more Efficient and Effective Resource Management and Generation"

I like the idea of goal 10. the university must provide or finance the various program s and project because it helps to improve he university and the students as well.

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Information Technology in Educational Practices

Digital technology revolutionizes many of the ways we receive and use information every day. their we can easily find what are the things that we are looking for; for example the meaning of the word, news, people and others.

The prominent obstacles to the integration of ICT tools in teaching are lack of equipment, out of date equipment, and poorly maintained equipment. It is essential to have sufficient
The different obstacles:

Uncertain or Unfavorable Copyright Law
-Lawyers tend to look first to legal regimes when surveying the landscape of a public policy issue. At times, this is the wrong place to begin, because economic or social forces play a greater role in shaping practices. In studying educational use of content, however, the law is the natural starting point: all of those other forces operate in the shadow of copyright law. Copyright single-handedly creates the monopolies that underpin economic interests in this area, and it profoundly shapes norms and institutional practices concerning the use of content.

Educational Use Exceptions
-there are several narrower provisions intended to benefit educational uses of content. In general, their specificity provides clear protection for those activities that fall within their confines. That same specificity often makes these exceptions narrow and bound to particular technology, however.

Library and Archives Exceptions
- this is one of the obstacles in Information technology because the students are becoming lazy in going to the library.

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 Policies and Studies of Different Countries 

New Zealand

 The strategy recognizes that to focus on technical skills alone is to limit the vision of IT in education. Rather, the focus must be on extending and deepening educational experiences (and on sharing those experiences) to work towards further developing an innovative and thriving society.The insights for future IT developments are informed high-quality leadership is essential. Bringing about improvements, and embedding those improvements into day-to-day practices, takes time. When approaching IT, teachers are sometimes oriented towards skill development. To transform their practice, teachers must have ready access to technology and be active, confident technology users with a desire to learn. They need to become researchers of their own practice.Teachers are most open to change when they have collegial support. The greatest benefits for teaching and learning appear to occur when teams of people work together, learn from each other, and have access to sustained support as they integrate IT into their teaching

They still developing leadership skills. They also focusing on long term goals and solution. also they are ensuring the newly qualified teachers have the knowledge to use IT effectively in their teaching and learning process. Their vision is to develop knowledge, understanding, skills and attitude. To participate fully in the society. To achieve in global economy. And to have strong sense of identity and culture.
Singapore
One of the world's premier business cities. It is also one of the most competitive nations. They use the information technology to prepare students with such skill, it would thus be important to equip schools and teachers with the necessary infrastructure. Their government sees technology as a key enabler in making student-centered learning and assessment a reality, helping to reach the goal of ability-driven education and the government's vision of thinking schools, learning nation.

Hongkong
The strategy outlines HongKong's aims to harness the power of IT to turn schools into dynamic and innovative learning institutions, where students can become more motivated, inquisitive, creative and independent lifelong learners.Key components of the strategy are teacher enablement, focus on curriculum and software, hardware provision and the extension of infrastructure. Teachers will be trained at four different levels to become effective facilitators, guiding the students to play a more active role in learning. The government will provide schools with a threshold level of hardware, technical support and an appropriate network infrastructure for collaboration and communication between the educational sectors and the community. IT facilities will be progressively increased and the provision of educational software will be more structured.

Malaysia
IT as a tool to revolutionist learning, to produce richer curricula, enhanced pedagogy's, more effective organizational structures in schools, stronger links between schools and society and the empowerment of learners. The concept of IT in education, as seen by the Ministry of Education, includes three main policies for IT in education.

• IT for all students, meaning that IT is used as an enabler to reduce the digital gap between the schools
  

• The role and function of IT in education as a teaching and learning tool, as part of a subject, and as a subject in its own right

• Using IT to increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of the management system

In order to support the IT master plan they create a new generation of Malaysia who are knowledgeable in new technology.

Australia
Australia is a pioneer in using IT for educational purposes. Their goals are the following 

• increasing the benefits from information technology 
• Helping people and organizations to adapt to new circumstances and providing tools and models to respond rationally to challenges posed by IT
• Providing information and communication facilities, services and management at a reasonable or reduced cost
• Improving the quality of services and products
• Encouraging innovations in technology development, use of technology and general work flows
• Promoting information sharing, transparency, and accountability and reducing bureaucracy within and between organizations, and towards the public at large
• Identifying priority areas for IT development (areas that will have the greatest positive impact on programmed, services, and customers)
• Providing citizens with a chance to access information; they may further specify the quality of that access in terms of media, retrieval performance, and so on
• Attaining a specified minimum level of information technology resources for educational institutions and government agencies
• Supporting the concept of lifelong learning
• Providing individuals and organizations with a minimum level of IT knowledge, and the ability to keep it up to date
• Helping to understand information technology, its development and its cross-disciplinary impact 

Philippines

As I observe in the Philippines, the IT is not compulsory to the students to take it up as a subject. Aside from that the some of the teachers are not well informed or don't have the knowledge on the IT.  For me, we should include it to our curriculum so that the students can really take it up.

references:

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/guidelines/common-goals-of-ict-policies/

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/guidelines/general-ict-policy-elements/

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/new-zealand/

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/Malaysia/

http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overviews/Singapore/

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