Definition or Description:

The management of material resources so as to both ensure their effective and efficient use to meet specific purposes. Involves skills in inventory control, determining maintenance needs and scheduling such maintenance, replacement scheduling, and cost control.

Comment:

With an increase in the use of sophisticated technologies, teachers need skills that allow them to make best use of available resources and to plan for resource development. While some disciplines such as the physical sciences have always required some resource management (for example with laboratory equipment and supplies), it has now become necessary to consider resource issues such as those pertaining to computing requirements both at the institution and as personal resources of students. Choosing instructional strategies that employ new technologies requires that the instructor be aware of limitations, costs, and other factors that can impact on students’ success in technology-based courses. SoTL studies of issues like time and cost management or the effectiveness of systems in these courses require skills in this area.

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