Role Of ICT In Educational Administration.

Role Of ICT In Educational Administration 

ICT making the process of learning more effective for students and teachers. ICT have a prominent role in Educational Management as it facilitates the school management to share knowledge and information. It also helps speed up the integration of administrative functions, while ensuring a modern method of administration, giving faster administrative transactions. ICT tools in education make it easier for teachers to use the best strategies to bring out the best in their students. In the current information age, educational institutions are expected to play a crucial role as the engine for knowledge generation and learning environment. In this regard, ICT becomes the vital means to facilitate this task. ICT has become an essential part of our everyday life. Its integration in education is inevitable and cannot be avoided. This is due to the fact that using ICT in education has become one of the most effective factors in school improvement not only for the purpose of teaching and learning, but also for administrative use.

The interdependence and interrelatedness of educational management cannot be overemphasized as school managers and administrators are important but perform goal oriented tasks in propagating technological interrelatedness aimed at furthering ICT for the achievement of education set goals and objectives. ICT application in schools covers a wider scope. This includes the comprehensive approach to innovate education systems, methods, and management through Information Communications Technology, restructuring education system, diversifying teaching learning methods & practices, engaging all stakeholders of education and adapting rapid to changes in society and the environment and enhancing education efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity. In the administration of the school, ICT can also be applicable in the administering of human, physical and financial resources. Application of ICT offers a wonderful potential for increasing school accountability, transparency and participation among various stakeholders.

 ICT applications have been in use in education administration and management to support sustainable development. A software based tools and applications are a piece of computer program which execute useful tasks for education, such as word processing, desktop publishing, running a database, creating a presentation or e-mail program. There are three main administration groups that are applying ICT in their various activities and actions in their daily administration and management at schools including: Administration head, Administration teachers and Administrative staff.

It has become one of the most effective factors in schools’ improvement. ICT plays a vital role in improving the functional effectiveness of school system.  In the last two decades, the Internet and ICT application tools have been expanded into the field of education all over the world. This is due to capability of’ Internet to provide opportunities for introducing advanced teaching — learning methods. The advanced and modern methods of learning are able to prepare students as skilled work force for future. In most of the schools, teachers allowed their students to communicate personally with them via email, forum, or social networks such as Facebook. Twitter. Moreover, Internet also used for uploading and receiving students’ assignments. Literatures show the trust by teachers that the internet provides access to valuable online resources of data and tools that can be useful for both groups of students and teachers. On the other hand, web based or internet based searching, communicating and managing materials will directly and indirectly improves the organization’s performance. Moreover, internet — based tools also have created wide opportunities for school management to leverage their resources. Internet is the most dominant enabler toward better, Faster and cheaper approach in operating administration and management daily tasks such as information processing, information transferring, information storing and information retrieving. Thus, schools administrators ought to pay more attention to give knowledge and information access on the Internet —based educational applications and tools to all academic and non-academic staff.