History ...
The Dougherty Group has over 200 years experience designing, developing, selling, and implementing leading edge technology solutions for the Education Market sector. The principles have been successful 'key' executives for such visionary Instructional Technology companies as: Computer Curriculum Corporation, iMind Education Systems, Prescription Learning, NetSchools Corporation, Plato Learning, Ingres Corporation, and Xerox Corporation.
Philosophy ...
Our philosophy is focused on your need to optimize your instructional technology investment by assisting you in identifying those critical technology challenges to your organization, achieving measurable results, and optimizing extensibility solutions. We challenge ourselves to deliver targeted and measurable solutions that meet the needs of the 21st Century Classroom, school, district and community … today!
Backgrounder - Addressing Today's Technology Challenges
Educators today are faced with the reality and challenge of integrating technology into the instructional process in the face of:
- Escalating class sizes
- Multi-modal learners
- Alternative assessment models
- Standards-based instruction
- Student achievement
- Reduced operating budgets
As the pressures mount toward addressing instructional technology integration it is often difficult to focus on long term goals instead of quick fixes. Priorities and funding alternatives appear to be continually changing as fast as technology keeps rapidly advancing.