Strategic Plan

Objectives and Goals of (MUST) Mindanao University of Science and Technology

GOAL 1: PURSUE EXCELLENCE IN INSTRUCTION
This goal is nice because it helps a lot the student to enhance or develop their knowledge more. The students will be ready enough to face the reality. The teacher should be flexible enough to teach the students in different subjects even if it is not their field.


Goal 2: PURSUE EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
This goal which is to pursue excellence in research is good. It helps the students/learners to enhance into the field of research. Based on my observations, the MUSTeans is really intelligent or smart enough because as what I have observe many of the students excel because of their research project, just like with my classmates before when I was a third year students.

GOAL 3: PURSUE EXCELLENCE IN EXTENSION
Just like before even now their is a MUST extension services into some places like in JASAAN and OROQUETA. The school give their full support and provide a good teachers in order for the students to learn and enhance their skills even if they are not studying in the main campus. Also the school should provide a good or conducive environment.

GOAL 4: ESTABLISH THE CENTER OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
Through helping each other we can save our environment. Let us conserve energy here in our school or even our home. Let us protect our environment through using it in a good way or in a good purposes. Let us not abuse it. If their some problems regarding in our environment let us find a way to cope with it.

GOAL 5: PROMOTES STUDENTS AFFAIRS, WELFARE AND SUCCESS
The university should support or help the students organizations in the school in order to discover the hidden talents or skills of the students. By this, the students will be knowledgeable enough, develop their self confidence. The students also should be responsible enough, focuses in their studies and hard working in order for them to be successful in their life.

GOAL 6 : MAXIMIZE LIBRARY AND OTHER RESOURCE SUPPORT TO THE TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT
We us a student, let us give importance to the resources that we are having now. Here in our school, we have our library and electronic library which is very helpful to us. But the school library should provide a lot of new books ,and for e-library the attendants should be approachable or friendly enough so that when the students will have a problems or needs help they can easily approach them.

GOAL 7: IMPLEMENT MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
The university should provide a conducive to learning environment, some other rooms should be well ventilated, far away from unnecessary noise just like the voice the cat especially in the education building. The university also provide more rest rooms. And also the big problem of the university is the flood , they should find a way or solution for it.

GOAL 8: IMPLEMENT MASSIVE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT
We us a students need to enhance our knowledge in dealing with the computers. But the leaders of the school should be the one who will give importance or promotes the strategies for ICT. The leaders should give importance to that because it is very useful to us a student.

GOAL 9: PURSUE OUTSTANDING HUMAN AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The university should enhance the instructors to be more competent to their fields especially those instructor who are lazy enough to teach their students, or they may expelled them as soon as possible.

GOAL 10: INSURE MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND GENERATION
The university should not spent more money for the construction of new building. The budget should be spent wisely so that we can use it for the other next project. Their should be a report on how much money was being spent and where it was being spent.

-in every pRoblem there is a solution-(oBstacles to i.t.educational practice and ways to overcome such obtacles)

Information technology helps us a lot. It is a tools that might provide helpful in advancing student learning. Also information technology helps us to enhanced our skills, acquire more knowledge and many more. Through this information technology we can easily access course materials, subject made easier to learn and it improves student writing and can motivate students well. If we have a lot of advantages in using information technology, of course there are clear drawbacks or shall I say disadvantages or obstacles as well. This advantages/obstacles are insufficient numbers of computers ,lack of knowledge and training ,difficult to integrate instructions ,not enough training opportunities, poor quality of website materials and difficult used of low achieving students.
To overcome all of this obstacles the teachers should provide more computers and should have special training to all the students. Teachers should also provide more knowledge and information on how to use computers properly/correctly. The teacher also may provide seminars. We need to help each other to solve such obstacles to information technology educational practice.

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Ed Tech Quiz #1 » online exam

ICT

ICT stand for Information Communication Technologies. ICT are for the purposes of this primer, as a diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, disseminate, store, and manage information. ICT also is transforming the global economy by providing new engine for the development as well as changing its fundamental dynamics. The ICTs of different progressive countries like New Zealand , Malaysia, Singapore , Australia and Hong KOng are very unusual or shall I say it is very remarkable.

The New Zealand has the world highest access of telecommunications per capit, with the costt of accessing the the Internet being almost as low as it is in the United States.New Zealanders are usually quick to embrace new technologies. The New Zealand has their own broad goal of the ICT strategy and it is to enhance the development of the students' knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes through the appropriate and effective use of ICT. In Singapore , the workshop provided the participants with exposure to the various conceptual and practical policy issues pertaining to fostering ICT developmemt as well as using the ICT to help economic growth in the region. In addition to participating in presentations to help inbcrease the knowledge-base on this highly topical development issue ,participants worked in small group to tackle a number of policy problems related to ICT development. When it comes to Malaysia, this is the country that has long recognized the transformational ability of ICT that would propel the country for p-economy to k-economy. The Malaysians also have their own strategies. One of their strategies is to implement strategies to achieve Malaysias ICT education objectives include pireparing approptiate ICT equipment and inbfrastucture for all schools. Also inntroducing ICT curriculum and support for ICt intehration into general teaching and leaning and upgrading ICT skills and knowledge of both teachers and students. In Australia they focus on the main objectives which are: to further promote business utilization of ICt especially within the small to medium enterprise market. Expand Australia's broadband capabilities. Also Australia has their principles which is all Australians should be able to participate and benefit from the information economy and national approaches wre favored to best promote Australia's interests internationally. In Hong Kong, their government is intent on harnessing the full potential of information and communication technology to benefit community and enhance Hong Kong position a leading digital city. Hong Kong offers a favourable environmant for the development of Internet and ecommerce. Hong Kong strategy highlighted some action areas which are : facilitating a digital economy, promoting advanced technology and innovation, developing Hong Kong as a hub for technological cooperation and trade,enabling the next generation of public services. ( http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/themes/policy/regional-country-overview)

Here in Philippines, some of us were not given a chance to use a computer. Unlike in other countries they really supported by the government. They are oblidge to used one laptop every individual. Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand ,Ausralia and Hong KOng were really a progressive countries .