Comments to Sharon Jones Blog

"A third area of concern is future growth and development. While it is one thing to pick a system or combination of systems that meet today's needs, how will the panel determine the probable needs of the organization in 2 years, 5 years, or 10 years. Admittedly, this is the most difficult area for search committees to agree upon. Not only is it necessary for the committee to project the future needs of their organization, they must also project the potential technological developments of the prospective vendors." - http://blossjones.blogspot.com/2010/08/week-3-readings-choosing-and-lmslcms.html

I enjoyed reading your response to week's 3 readings. I like the topic of development and planning for future needs for a learning environment. Learning management systems ought to be a part of all educational learning environments, as I see this topic as the interdisciplinary bridge that can allow for a collaborative discussion related to planning for the future needs of the learning environment.

Unfortunately, development is an area where many educational environments are not well staffed. It appears that many times educational leaders are too caught up in the daily grind on working within a learning environment that future projections of technological needs are too often not thought about nor acted upon. There is a panel in my work site that is called the Leadership Team who purposed is mandated to discuss our collective educational concerns and directions for improvement. However this Leadership Team is not evaluated on its action and or lack of action. Unfortunately the Leader of the team, the principal, does not like to engage in discussion that would elicit involvement in creating a plan. Instead the leader prefers to lead the team to discuss and report on past events. The principal is threaten by other people's ideas and is more comfortable in controlling the dialogue on past events. Therefore development for planning our technology needs is never an option.