| Abstract: | This paper describes the results of a department-wide programme called IMAGO, which was aimed at giving information and communication technology (ICT) a more important and effective role in the educational programmes. The underlying assumption was that students are responsible for their own learning process, and that students are considered to be knowledge- and information-intensive workers rather than passive consumers of information, and need to be facilitated as such. In implementing more advanced and innovative ICT applications for supporting the educational processes and for improving the contents of the courses, we have developed and used an implementation approach that was geared towards managing and steering professionals. The approach respects the role of professionals as highly individual and knowledgeable workers, and suggests the use of specific incentives to stimulate those professionals. The approach used has led to successful results and innovations in the areas of educational administrative processes, such as individual and flexible scheduling software, and in the area of the course contents, such as intensive use of ICT to enhance the students' learning process. The results obtained will be distributed to a wider audience in the near future by means of (inter)national collaborations. |
