Use of information technologies at technical colleges

Abstract

This intervention study is aimed at helping upgrade lmowledge and skills of teachers, students and facilitators in integrating Information Technologies (IT) into technical education system. IT entered the socio-cultural setting of Sri Lankan Technical Colleges in early 1983. The teaching and learning process is the core function of the technical colleges. In the modern world that changes rapidly with the evolution of new technologies, the ways of training should be modernized with the emerging trends of IT. To study the present level of using IT for teaching and learning process at technical colleges, identify the activities of the teaching learning and process that IT can be used in different ways in which IT can be incorporated into these activities. In addition to that identify the advantages of using IT over the existing methods used for the teaching and learning process as well as to identify the difficulties in using IT for teaching and learning process at technical colleges and to propose suitable solutions to overcome these difficulties.