Valuation of IT Courses – A Contingent Valuation Method Approach

To help the civil servants in both central and local governments in Taiwan operating administrative works smoothly under a new digitalized system launched in 1994, a series of courses related to information technology were offered free to them annually by the central governments. However, due to the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Educational technology & society 2008-01, Vol.11 (1), p.238-247
Main Authors: Liao, Chao-ning, Chiang, LiChun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives administration
City councils
City Government
Civil service
Computer Science Education
Cost Effectiveness
Education
Educational Policy
Educational technology
Electronic learning
Employee Attitudes
Evaluation
Evaluation Methods
Finance
Foreign Countries
Full Length Articles
Gender Differences
Government Employees
Information Technology
Local government
Public administration
Public Agencies
Public employees
Public Policy
Staff Development
Standardization
Study and teaching
Taiwan
Technology application
Training
Valuation methods
Willingness to pay
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:To help the civil servants in both central and local governments in Taiwan operating administrative works smoothly under a new digitalized system launched in 1994, a series of courses related to information technology were offered free to them annually by the central governments. However, due to the budget deficit in recent years, the government is considering decreasing or completely canceling the assistantship for these IT courses. Choosing the Tainan City Council as a research case, ‘the contingent valuation method’ is applied in the study to explore the monetary value of these IT courses in the employees' mind. The result shows that the individuals' perception of benefit from these IT courses, measured in monetary term is close to the costs of the courses currently offered. Thus, the central government should continue the support of the IT training courses.
ISSN:1176-3647
1436-4522
1436-4522