Unified Communications Technology: The Considerations for Adoption for Administration and Pedagogy.
Unified Communications Technology: The Considerations for Adoption for Administration and Pedagogy
By: Patricia Kahn, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President
College of Staten Island
Abstract
We are in a different place, where today’s learners require educators to broaden their methods of pedagogy in order to interact more effectively with digital-native learners (Dietz, 2010). Educators need a less structured and more informal learning setting that leverages already established teaching tools supporting a constructivist learning environment (Dietz, 2010). In addition, institutions need to leverage these technologies with their business processes in order to provide for greater efficiencies and collaboration (Herrell, 2011).