ICT for Faculty and Staff Development

Faculty and staff development is a vast area, which is being debated in the present scenario across the globe. The competition in the global village has brought in the scope of yielding productive goods, which is also true in the case of educational institutes. In the present paper, the author looks into faculty and staff development purely from the perspective of developments in Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). Hence, the paper gives an introduction to the concepts of faculty and staff development and ICTs, while presenting the need to introduce ICT programmes in education and how it has to be implemented. To supplement the theoretical discussions a suggestive curriculum framework given by UNESCO is discussed. Strategies and plans for the implementation of ICT in faculty and staff development are discussed, giving the level of ICT integration and steps in the ICT integration process. A top-down-bottom-up integration model proposed by Altun is also discussed. The paper concludes with observations and suggestions regarding the use of ICTs in developmental programmes.