Due Diligence: Researching Your Initiative |
| Goals/Objectives |
In this offering we will research the available information, filter through the data and apply it to your particular environment. The goal of this offering is to help the school identify their goals and find qualified research to challenge or support their initiative. Ultimately, the purpose of this is help the school make the right decision and save the school significant time and expense during the information gathering phase.
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| Description |
Researching your major technology initiative can be difficult and expensive. Are you finding the right resources? Do you know the context of the research? How did things go when the research was done? Are you applying the information correctly? All the necessary work for due diligence can be expensive and time consuming. However, the alternative of not researching properly or deeply enough can be significantly more expensive and wasteful of time.
Educational Collaborators will help the school or district clarify the goals for research and then go through existing resources as well as find new materials to satisfy the research goals. Resources used will include those available in the public domain, though qualified with our follow-up analysis, purchased research studies as well as the experience of our groups work with over 100 one-to-one programs.
The school or district will be given a report aligning the research with the schools specific research goals. Educational Collaborators can provide additional support to schools by bringing our experience on-site to present the findings and provide additional information to board members and stakeholders. |
Target Audience
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Administrative Team and Governing Board |
| Rationale |
Schools and districts can waste significant time and money researching technology initiatives without having the experience in-house to quickly find and qualify the information being gathered. This offering can significantly increase the quality of research and significantly lower the risk of applying the wrong information to your analysis. Expensive initiatives demand quality analysis. |
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