Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail

How to Create Your School's Education Technology Strategic Plan

By: Darryl Vidal

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eText | 16 March 2017 | Edition Number 1

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FAIL TO PLAN, PLAN TO FAIL is a book for Education Technology professionals who understand that Ed Tech projects are complex and costly, and therefore must be planned and managed just like any other large-scale project. Oftentimes Education Technology professionals move straight from naming an initiative, such as “1 to 1 computing, or BYOD” right into implementation, without taking into consideration the necessary infrastructure, bandwidth and capacity. These requirements may double or even quadruple the overall expenditure.
But in recent decades, with the massive call for classroom technology, the large-scale technology programs that have made the news have been huge failures, and have wasted millions of taxpayer dollars, taking some superintendents with them.
What is the key to avoiding these failures, and how can you insure that it doesn’t happen to your school? The key is planning and project management. Education Technology Strategic Planning is the subject of this book. It provides a detailed process, called MAPIT^TM that guides the planner through five phases for developing your school’s Ed Tech Strategic Plan: Needs Identification, Needs Analysis, Recommendations, Feasibility and Implementation.

Industry Reviews

In my chair we always start with a dream or a vision. But you can be sure there is always a
solid plan behind every dream if it's ever going to become a reality. Daryl has done a great
job identifying each part of plans required to be successful when implementing technology
based dreams.