Choosing an appropriate technological tool for learning tasks in courses is a controlled and organized process in which we examine whether and how the tool will contribute to students’ learning and to the teaching process, and to what extent this technology is significant from a pedagogical perspective.
A recommendation for a new technology or a change in an existing technology can stem from requests by lecturers and teaching staff who have encountered difficulties and are seeking a solution, or referrals by instructors and teaching staff after a successful use of a technological tool they have used themselves or received a recommendation for. The Center for Advancement of Learning and Teaching also receives recommendations about platforms from additional sources, such as peers at centers across the country and the world. If you wish to recommend a new technology, please fill out the attached form, and we will contact you.
The recommendation will include the following steps:
- Defining the existing challenge we aim to solve or improve.
- Identifying the group for which the solution can provide an answer.
- Identifying the appropriate target audience suitable for using the new technology (from the group for which the solution can provide an answer).
- Defining basic requirements for the desired solution.
- Planned mode of using the tool – how it will be used in practice and by whom.
- Tools review – searching and locating existing solutions that can address the defined problem.
- Examining the tools’ compliance with the Technion’s information security requirements, privacy protection, and copyrights. Compliance with information security requirements, privacy protection, and copyrights, are threshold requirements, and without them, the tool cannot be selected.
- Assessing the capabilities of the solutions against the defined basic requirements.
- Checking technological compatibility: ensuring the tool is accessible and compatible with the devices used by participants.
- Comparison of solutions (if multiple options exist), including cost comparison.
- Formulating a detailed recommendation on the recommended technological tool for piloting out of all the options examined.
- Conducting a discussion with relevant parties at the Technion and deciding on the preferred technological tool.
- Assessing the adaptation of the technological tool by conducting a pilot.
- Summarizing the pilot process, formulating advantages, disadvantages, key insights emerging from the field, etc.
- Decision-making – whether to integrate the technological tool at the Technion or not.
