Using Strategic Intelligence and Technology as building block for Educational Innovation: a conceptual framework towards the impact for outcome-based education

Abstract

Today, technology is used for several purposes across the different sectors and organizations. In education, there has been discussions, both in theory and in practice, around what technology offers to the educational community, and how it can help the educators offer effective learning or yet outcome-based education for the stakeholders (teachers, students, society). To this vein, this study introduces a Strategic Intelligence and Technology in Education framework, called SITE, designed for contextual analysis of the impact of the new and emerging educational technologies and innovations in education. Theoretically, it describes an ensemble algorithm or procedures that can be implemented by educators to provide a more strategic-process-related and enhanced curriculum or educational learning models. It then provides an empirical discussion and implications of the results of the data analysis conducted using datasets about (i) students’ learning outcome and assessment, and (ii) the different types of innovation in education. The results show that while “technology” is more associated to “educational innovation” than other methods or services. There is also, on the other hand, the need for reimagining education to include indicators for outcome-based education through integration of multi-service or co-productive learning components or pathways, such as amalgamation of technology with strategic intelligence done in this paper.