This session will provide an overview of Saskatchewan Education's current initiatives and future plans for the use of educational technology to support Saskatchewan schools. The Rural Access Program is a pilot project being offered by Parkland Regional College, Prairie West Regional College and the Saskatchewan Communications Network. Adults in rural Saskatchewan are now able to access training in their own communities and sometimes in their own homes, thanks to a pilot program called the Rural Access Project. In this session, you will hear how the project came to function, the challenges and highlights of delivering basic education in this mode. As well, you will be able to participate in an actual demonstration with students in Kamsack and Biggar, Saskatchewan.
Transformation is a risky business at the best of times.
When making the transformation to e-business, the complexity and speed of change is exponentially greater. . . especially for those who fail to address the human, as well as the technical aspects of change. If organizational change could be limited to only machines or physical facilities, implementation would be relatively simple. Most major changes within the human work environment, however, require employees to modify something about the way they think, feel, or behave. The addition of these human factors significantly increases the complexity of the change process. For this reason, successful implementation of change requires an understanding of the human as well as the technical aspects involved in the situation.