Virtual Communication and Organization for Promoting Quality Leadership and Open Government in Schools/Okullarda Kalite, Liderlik ve Açık Yönetimi Teşvik için Sanal İletişim ve Organizasyon

Abstract

This paper shows a piece of research in which parents, students, teachers and educational supervisors' opinions about virtual management and open government at schools are analyzed. Nowadays virtual communication through computers or mobile digital devices is a common activity developed by any citizen. In this current Information and Communication Society context, school communities need institutional support based on interactive tools that are operative in this digital context. Parents should be informed and participate constantly about the progress of their children but they also must be involved in the knowledge of tasks, exercises and activities that are performed in the classroom and school. Through a quantitative and qualitative methodology we analyze educational communities' opinions about main virtual tools to improve communication, administrative tasks, and academic activities in order to enhance educational institutions quality. We have reached remarkable results, such as: school organization, communication among all members of school communities, educational programming, along with teaching functions can be significantly improved with the use of institutional interactive networks that include communicative functions and school management in a virtualized way. Digital communication and management of the school through networks makes educational communities (families, teachers and students) to be integrated in a more productive and beneficial way at the school. It is remarkable parents' feelings of being integrated in a true community in which they can participate through different communication channels. They consider themselves as active members of the educational institution where they can participate in its functioning through polls, surveys and monitor their children educational progress from an active parents' role.