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INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES 5

Georgia Learning Center.

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Georgia Learning Center.
Introduction.
Technology is revolutionizing all aspects and all approaches that we once had to education. For any institution that is offering education on a global capacity, there is a need to change the school’s curriculum to incorporate new technology and accommodate diverse learning styles. The institution is a non-for-profit, and it accommodates students from all over the world. This is why both internal and external stakeholders need a transition to technology and a learning environment that accommodates all students. So, the institution must ensure there are diverse learning styles by considering the backgrounds of all students. Students with different cultural, social, and economic backgrounds learn differently. Providing all these students is accommodated in a classroom is essential. It is also important to incorporate technology as it is playing a huge role in today’s learning environment. 
According to Raja and Nagasubramani (2018), the learning and interaction of modern-day students increase with the use of technology. The authors assert that the transfer of knowledge has become easy and effective with the use of technology in the classroom. This provides enough reason why the institution needs to accommodate technology. Ellington and Benders (2012) state that adopting different learning styles will ensure all students are accommodated in a classroom with students from diverse geographical locations. This is an institution with students from all over the world and understanding their learning styles and adopting them is essential. 
Reason for expansion.
This change is required urgently because we are experiencing very fast growth in the use of technology in the field of education. Arkorful and Abaidoo (2015) assert that e-learning is now playing a huge role in higher education. Technology is also playing a huge role in the outside world, and it is important to prepare our students to face the future world that will have been taken over by technology. The use of technology will ensure students will be able to learn and communicate with their professors in whichever part of the globe they may be during their holidays. This is a change that will affect both students and the institution positively if implemented well. 
Resources required.
To bring the plan to fruition, there are a resources that will be required by the company in the form of funds. These are outlined.

Expenditure.

Allocated resources.

Setting up virtual learning centers.

$20,000

Training teachers.

$10,000

Purchasing computers.

$50,000

Purchasing teaching rights(Legal compliance)

$50,000

Purchase of tablets.

$60,000

Delivery of study devices.

$20,000

Total expenditure.

$210,000

Work plan.
E learning will be a combination of delivering the content to the students through a digital platform and through face to face learning. It will be a shift I learning that will consist of shifting from the traditional face to face learning to the use of web tools (Alhabeeb & Rowley, 2017). It will enhance collaborative learning and it will create a platform for learning that will take into consideration the requirements of all the students. Taking into consideration that the institution is catering for the needs of global students, incorporating technology will ease the process through which content is delivered and it will make it far more effective (Alhabeeb & Rowley, 2017). E learning will principally change the approach to learning at the institution and at the same time, it will make delivering of education easier as well as attaining of the goal of the organization; being a not-for-profit institution, its main aim is to ensure all students can afford education. They are empowered with enough knowledge regardless of their social or economic background in this age and era of globalization.
Timeline to attain initiative.
Enhancing the delivery of education is an issue that should be considered to be paramount. As such, the timeline to be effected is one that should ensure that delivery of the goal is attained as fast as possible. From when the project is initiated, the setting up of virtual running center is expected to take place within a period of 4 months. These activities will run concurrently with the procurement department calling for and analyzing tenders for the supply of technological devices. The training of teachers will then take place after the learning centers have been set up. The goal is to familiarize them with content delivery across a virtual space. It will take place for a month. The last step will be the delivery of study devices to students. The time allocated for this is a total of two months. Within this period, all deliveries are expected to have been completed. The project thus has an estimated timeline of 7 months prior to becoming functional.
Legal and Regulatory compliance.
Different countries have different legal requirements in the delivery of education. As an organization that will be delivering education globally, there are some regulations that must be observed to ensure that the delivery of education to all people Among the legal compliance that the Georgia Learning Center will observe are The Family Education rights and Privacy acts which gives students and parents a right to check their performance records, The protection of minority student which shall forbid asking personal questions to minority students, and the freedom of information which will allow the institution to hold on to students record as long as it deems necessary.
Goals and Objectives of E-learning.
These are the major achievements that the institution hopes to make in terms of delivering their content through online platforms. The goal of the foundation is to ensure that education is achieved by all people in spite of geographical limitations.
The objectives of e-learning are:
1. Enhancing the quality of learning and teaching.
2. Improving the efficiency and also the effectiveness of content delivery.
3. Ensuring that all students can access the school regardless of their time zones.
Steps to attain objectives.
Objective 1: Enhancing the quality of learning and teaching.
The most important element in any classroom is ensuring that the students and the teacher can communicate effectively (Alhabeeb & Rowley, 2017). As such, it will be important that the students have a functional computer or smartphone device that will help them stay connected to the classroom. All the devices that will be used will need to be connected with a microphone and a webcam. Some students may be struggling with their devices and may not have the necessary funds to purchase new ones (Lacurezeani et al. 2019). The costs can be minimized through the use of easy solutions such as substituting phones for webcams or enhancing the quality of the video by using back cameras. Another resource that will be required is the appropriate software.
Objective 2: Improving the efficiency and also the effectiveness of content delivery
It is essential to ensure that students will be able to access the different files that they are sent by the instructors. Not all students have printers and as such, there is the need to make use of scanning applications such as Adobe Scan so that hand written work can be neatly submitted. Funds will be required to allocate access devices (Lacurezeani et al. 2019). The aim of the organization is to ensure accessibility of education to all students but, the limitation to this aim is the technological devices necessary to access the school platforms. As such, some of the funds that are directed at the setting up and facilitating of physical learning will be diverted towards purchase and delivery of laptops and tablets to the students. Fund reallocation will be essential if the goal of availability of learning is to be achieved. The impact of this will be less funds directed towards the creation of physical spaces to more funds allocated towards the setting up of virtual spaces.
Objective 3: Ensuring that students can access the school regardless of their time zones.
Education can only be delivered successfully if students are able to access classes on time. It imply that all students should be able to access the class content irrespective of the time zones in which they are located. To see to this, the teachers will be expected to make videos while teaching and further upload their content on online data bases. It will give all students a chance to access the classes rather than some being inconvenienced by attending classes at inappropriate hours.
Key personnel.
These are the people that will initiate the e-learning project. The essential stakeholders in this case will be the CEO if the organization, and the head of the technological department. They are involved in all the stages of the creation and also the development of the e-learning project. It is they who will either approve or disapprove the course that the project will take and also, they will play the role of overseers to ensure the project stays on track at all times Martin, F., & Parker, M. A. (2016). The project manager will be expected to monitor the daily operations of the team and also be responsible for the success of the project. As such, the manager is expected to be a great planner, able to execute plans, have knowhow on the project timeline and be a good manager of teams.
To guide the instructional designer, explain and elaborate on any doubt regarding the project and check the flow of the content, there will be trainers and subject matters experts. It is these people that will be charged with the role of checking the success pf the project as well as ensuring that students and teachers are trained on the use and the access of online classrooms. Further, translators will also play a role in the classrooms Martin, F., & Parker, M. A. (2016). With learning occurring on a global scale, it is essential to take into consideration people that communicate with different languages. Translators will thus ensure that content is delivered in a language that all the students will be able to comprehend.
Conclusion.
There is a need to change the school’s curriculum to incorporate new technology and accommodate diverse learning styles. The institution is a non-for-profit, and it accommodates students from all over the world. Technology will define the success of future learning. It should be the aim of every learning institution to include technology in service delivery so that the maximum number of people can be impacted

References.
Alhabeeb, A., & Rowley, J. (2017). Critical success factors for eLearning in Saudi Arabian universities. International Journal of Educational Management.
Lacurezeani, R., Buchmann, R., Bresfelean, P., & Mares, V. (2019). The Place of e-Learning in Romanian Universities’ Strategies. Informatica Economica, 15(1).
Martin, F., & Parker, M. A. (2016). Use of synchronous virtual classrooms: Why, who, and how. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 10(2), 192-210.
Raja, R., & Nagasubramani, P. C. (2018). Impact of modern technology in education. Journal of Applied and Advanced Research, 3(1), 33-35.
Arkorful, V., & Abaidoo, N. (2015). The role of e-learning, advantages and disadvantages of its adoption in higher education. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 12(1), 29-42.