When did your school last do a detailed review of its ICT and education expenditure?

When did the school last examine the annual spending in each of the main ICT and education categories?

Is your school’s investment on this educational tool cost effective?

Are you wasting scarce resources?

Over the past twenty plus years schools worldwide have poured very considerable monies into ICT in the quest to improve teaching and learning.

Each year the proportion of the budget given over to ICT grows and yet universally there is still scant evidence to indicate that investment is bearing the desired dividends.

The OECD research into E-Learning in sixteen countries released in June 2005 reinforces the lack of impact of the investment in ICT upon teaching and learning.

IWBNet has developed an inexpensive, confidential school ICT and education expenditure review service that allows your school to undertake, on a regular basis, a detailed analysis of its ICT and education related expenditure.

When combined with an IWBNet IWB Program Evaluation Package it allows the school to gauge the cost effectiveness of its spending on ICT for educational purposes and to ask the hard questions.

Most importantly this review service enables the school to ascertain if it is spending appropriately and wisely in each category and enables it to secure independent, confidential, external advice on the school’s expenditure and how it compares with similar schools.

The ICT and Education Expenditure Review Service includes:

• Monitoring and Evaluating Achievement in Your IWB Program – A Supplementary Guide (PDF)

• An initial briefing on the use of the package

• A pre-formatted spreadsheet to guide the school’s data collection and analysis

• An email support service

• An analysis of the tabulated data by the IWBNet team

• A report from IWBNet that compares the expenditure with similar schools

• An executive summary of the appropriateness and effectiveness of the school’s ICT and education expenditure.

The package provides online support for schools anywhere in the networked world.

The standard package costs AU $1,200.00 (including taxes)

If you would like any more information or would like to undertake the review, please email info@iwb.net.au or alternatively phone 1800 760 108 during work hours, Monday to Friday.