Educational Process Reengineering and Diffusion of Innovations in Formal Learning Environment

Abstract

In technology mediated learning while relative adva ntages of technologies is proven , lack of contextualization and process centric change, and lack of user driven change has kept intervention and adoption of educational technologies among individuals and organizations as challenges. Reviewing the formal, informal and non -formal learning environments , this study focuses on the formal part . This paper coins the term „Educatio nal Process Reengineering (EPR) based on the established concept of „Business Process Reengineering (BPR) for process improvement of teaching learning activities, academic administration and evaluation and assessment . Educational environment s are flexible and not governed by standard operating procedures, making techno logy use lithe. Theory of „diffusion of innovations ‟ is recommended to be integrated to reason and measure acceptance or rejection of EPR selected technology and address root cause . Future work is to elaborately demonstrate use of proposed conceptual proce ss design for integrated education process reengineering and diffusion reasoning .