Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify ICT standards and trends for an educational context
- Analyse competing new technology solutions
- Identify specific educational requirements that can be met by technology
- Identify the range of functions and capabilities supplied, by benchmarking competing technologies
- Select critical features of competing technologies for analysis
- Conduct an analysis of technologies using various performance indicators
- Select and report on appropriate new technology, by considering the analysis of critical features
- Develop a strategy to optimise current technology
- Identify unused capacity in existing technology
- Identify applications for unused capacity appropriate to educational outcomes
- Develop, and present where required, a strategy for exploiting additional capacity
- Assess the cost and efficiency of the strategy against available resources and budgets
- Recommend a course of action in line with the assessment