"An Alignment of the Planets"

Using information and communication technologies' (ICT) to facilitate the Implementation of Transmission-based Pedagogy at the Unitech the imagined potential of distance-based ICTs to support future markets in international education was a powerful driver of institutional policy. In the educational domain, changes associated with the use of technology are driven primarily by academic objectives. In the organizational domain changes associated with the use of technology are often driven by institutional objectives, such as cost reduction, the broadening of modes of delivery and/or the implementation of new systems of research management, personal accountability or task control. Technology strategies did not always connect with students' uses of technology. Management spoke of oganizational strategies in relation to both corporate agendas and teaching and learning agendas. Participants were asked about the pedagogical and organizational aspects of ICTs innovations. Indulging in what Woolgar calls "sweeping grandiloquence", technology boosters welcome ICTs as the universal catalyst and panacea for all needs and problems.