Organizations Information Technology Environment



Organizations Information Technology Environment

Introduction

The main purpose of Information and Media Technology (IMT) is to provide technology oriented information network system to people and organizations based on strategic framework of new technologies. It also supports organizations to provide learning through advanced technology with wide range of information resources and services. The IMT Support Desk helps Azusa Pacific University (APU) to strategically plan their information technology infrastructure and maintain technology based learning environment to students and teachers (http://www.apu.edu, 2012).

Educated society is becoming the most important factor not only technological and socio-economic development of any country, but also for the survival of civilization, overcoming its global environmental and spiritual crisis. In the 21st century, when humanity enters into the information phase of development and education should be a continuous process, the most important part of everyone's life, providing him the opportunity to navigate the vast ocean of information, to adapt to the continuous technological innovation (Marchewka, 2006). With rapidly changing environment and technology, the help desk maintains quality of education by providing online resource and network access to people in the campus.

Information Technology Environment

Today's world civilized community is largely based on information and communication technologies. Under the influence of information process develops a new structure - the information society. Active implementation of information technologies of modern society could not touch and the education system Provision of education theory and practice of development and use of information and communication technologies is one of the most important means of implementing the new paradigm of public education aimed at creating favorable conditions for self-development (Brooks, 1995).

However, the main requirement for modern education - it should be a humanistic oriented; consider man as the core value, to be aimed at the development of the individual. With this approach, any forms, methods, techniques, education is not an end in itself, as discussed in the context of one of the main objectives of education to ensure the most favorable conditions for self-development.

Educational Environment

Software telecommunications and pedagogical space with common technological is provided with the means of the educational process, its information and documentation in support of the Internet environment to any number of schools, regardless of their professional specialization (the proposed level of education), legal form and ownership. The focus of the teacher is transferred with an active teacher's impact on the personality of the student in the area of formation of learning environment, which is its self-learning and self-development. With this organization, the formation mechanisms of internal activity includes student in his interactions with the environment (Freznel, 1999). Information is a very complex substance, which is perceived by each person individually according to his abilities, psychological characteristics, the level of thinking, etc. In modern conditions of human knowledge should come not from a single specialized thesaurus and from the diversity of opinions, attitudes, and ideas and, above all - of personal, cognitive and methodological skills, critical evaluation and comparison of the diversity of information received. Therefore, the educational environment of ...