• To enhance the teaching
and learning environment for schools by providing an enhanced
and trouble free ICT infrastructure.
• To deliver a cost effective and low maintenance ICT infrastructure
to a cluster of schools that will free teachers from technical
constraints and allow them to focus on their key competencies
of improving the teaching and learning process.
• To remove the impediments to ICT integration in schools,
these include down time caused by technical issues, fear and ignorance
of the technical capabilities, and the perceived burden of extra
responsibilities that ill planned ICT environments bring about.
• The evaluation of the effect of the enhanced ICT environment
in delivering improved ‘pedagogical practice’ within
the involved schools.
• To investigate the ‘whole school’ solution
potential especially in light of the preponderance of small schools
in Ireland and the potential to mainstream the key project outcomes.
• To maximise the opportunity the project provides to influence
and inform wider ICT practice in Irish schools.
• To fully investigate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
benefit outcomes of the project.
• To maximise the project impact in terms of technical support
models, training and collaboration among the participant schools.
