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Internet Resources in Learning Technologies
- College: The Undergraduate
Experience in America. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. "The American college is, we believe, ready for renewal, and there is
an urgency to the task."
- Harvey Blustain, Philip Goldstein, and Gregory Lozier, Assessing the New Competitive
Landscape. CAUSE/EFFECT, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1998.
- William F. Massy & Robert Zemsky, Using Information Technology to
Enhance Academic Productivity.EDUCOM NLII white paper
- Interview with Tom Peters.
TECHNOS Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3, Fall 1994.
- Eli Noam, Electronics and the Dim
Future of the University, Science, Vol. 270, pp. 247-249, October 13, 1995.
- Eli Noam on
the Future of the University, EDUCOM Review, July 1996
- Eli Noam, Electronics and the
Future of the Research Library, ACRL conference, March 1997.
- Neil Postman
interviewed on PBS' Macneil/Leher NewsHour, July 25, 1995.
- Slicing the
Learning Pie, EDUCOM Review interview with Stan Davis, September, 1996
- Interview with Stan Davis in
"Leading Lights"
- Peter J. Denning, Business Designs
for The New University, EDUCOM Review, November 1996
- Peter Drucker on the future
of education,Forbes 3/10/97, cited in Edupage, 2/28/97
- Alan Guskin, Restructuring our
Universities: Focusing on Student Learning, ACRL conference, March 1997
- Lewis Perelman, The
hyperlearning revolution will replace public education Wired, vol. 1 no.
1
- Speech by
Lewis Perelman (8 minutes)
- H. Stahlke and J. Nyce,Reengineering
Higher Education: Reinventing Teaching and Learning, CAUSE/EFFECT, Winter
1996
- Center for Academic Transformation,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "[A] source of expertise and
support for those in higher education who wish to take advantage of the capabilities of
information technology to transform their academic practices."
- See also EDUCOM Review on-line, below.
- University of California Extension Online A collaboration between the University of California Berkeley Extension
and the Center for Media and Independent Learning.
- World Campus 101.
Pennsylvania State University. A course on taking on-line courses.
- SUNY Learning Network
- NCSA Sample On-line Courses with Audio
and Video
- Prof. Mark Taylor, Williams College. Demonstration on-line lecture, on philosophy and virtual culture.
- California Virtual University
- National Technical University
- The Graduate School of America
- Colorado University, On-line Classes
- University of Delaware, 100 distance
learning courses
- The Electronic University Network
- The Internet University, Index of on-line
courses from a number of institutions
- Knowledge On-line (formerly Mind Extension University)
- The Learning Network of Spectrum Virtual University
- New School for Social Research
- Western Governor's Virtual University
- Prof. Bob Jensen's Technology in Education
Web site. Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.
- Crossroads Research
Project - Cases.Faculty involved in The Crossroads Project in
American Studies offer their thoughts on teaching with technology.
- Jeffry Young, Rethinking the Role of the Professor in
an Age of High-Tech Tools. The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 29, 1997. "Will 'unbundling' of tasks give faculty members more time or put
them on the sidelines?"
- Pamela Pavliscak, Seamus Ross, and Charles Henry, Information
Technology in Humanities Scholarship. The American Council on Learned Societies. State of I.T. in the humanities, includes suggestions on preparing for
innovation.
- Grace Johnson-Page, Rethinking
Teaching and Learning: A Reformation of Liberal Arts Education With Information Technology.
Web site on using I.T. in liberal arts colleges.
- James Morrison, ed., Technology
Tools for Today's Campuses. "...accounts of colleagues who
have agreed to share with others their encounters with using technology in their
classes...."; by discipline; (cited in The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- James O'Donnell, New Tools for Teaching,
University of Pennsylvania. A classicist shares insights and
resources for integrating technology into the classroom.
- Brenda Stewart, Information and
Communication Technology for Methods of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,
University of Minnesota
- New Chalk, "A
Bi-Weekly Featuring Instructors' Use of Networked Technologies", from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Stephen Ehrmann, Asking the Right
Questions: What Does Research Tell Us About Technology and Higher Learning? (1995). Change.
The Magazine of Higher Learning, XXVII:2 (March/April), pp. 20-27. ..."Overview of the evaluation literature on teaching, learning,
technology and costs."
- Arthur Chickering and Stephen Ehrmann,Implementing the Seven Principles:
Technology as Lever. Implications of information technology for
the AAHE's "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Higher Education".
- Stephen Ehrmann, Moving
Beyond Campus-Bound Education.
- The Epiphany Project. A two-year national project funded by Annenberg/CPB, providing strategies
and assistance for mainstream writing faculty to integrate technology into the classroom.
- Restructuring the
University for Technological Change. A.W.Bates, Distance Education and Technology, The
University of British Columbia. "... [I]f the new information
technologies are to play a central role in university teaching, each institution needs to
develop a set of strategies for change which will amount to no less than restructuring the
university. ..."
- Simple Start, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. A program to facilitate the instructional use
of Internet technologies.
- Campus Computing 1996: The
Seventh National Survey of Desktop Computing and Information Technology in Higher
Education, Ken Green."The annual Campus Computing Survey,
now in its seventh year, is based on data provided by computing officials at 660 two-and
four-year colleges and universities across the United States."
- Todd Oppenheimer, The
Computer Delusion,The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 280, no. 1, July 1997, pp. 45-62. Skeptical cover story on computers in primary education.
- Jeffry R. Young, Students Dislike Va. Tech Math
Classes in Which Computers Do Much of the Teaching, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, February 13, 1998.
- David F. Noble, Digital
Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education. First Monday. Widely circulated essay on academic technology and its role in undermining
the "once great democratic higher education system" through commercialization.
- New Media and
Borderless Education. A Review of the Convergence between Global
Media Networks and Higher Education Provision
- Keith H. Hammonds and Susan Jackson,The New University: A tough market
is reshaping colleges. Business Week, Dec. 22, 1997.
- Dorothy Frayer, Creating a New World of Learning
Possibilities through Instructional Technology, AAHESGIT posting
- Jim Noblitt, Making
Ends Meet: A Faculty Perspective on Computing and Scholarship, IAT Monitor.
- Steve Ehrmann, The
Flashlight Project, The TLT Group. Major undertaking to develop
strategies for assessing the success of educational technology. See also the
project's annotated
bibliography.
- The Impact of Technology,
The Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory. Citations on the
effectiveness of information technology in education.
- What Ever Happened to
Instructional Technology?,William Geoghegan. Paper presented to the 22nd Annual
Conference of the International Business Schools Computing Association.An examination of the failure of instructional technology to deliver on
its promise.
- Catalyst. University
of Washington. Very well done. "[A]n integrated collection of
resources, training, tools, templates, and support to help UW educators make effective use
of technology in teaching."
- Student Learning in an Information Age
Bibliography. Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library
Association.
- Information Literacy Competency
Standards for Higher Education -- Draft. Association of College and Research
Libraries, American Library Association.
- The ACRL/CNI Internet
Education Project. American Library Association. "This
project intends to provide an effective method for librarians to display and share
instructional materials that they have designed for teaching about seeking and evaluating
information in a networked environment. ..."
- Position Statement on
Information Literacy. American Library Association. "A
position paper on information problem solving."
- National Academy of Sciences Information Literacy Conference in Irvine, California, January 14-15, 1998.
- SUNY Information Literacy. SUNY Office of Library and Information Services. Final reports.
- Distance Learning Initiative:
Information Technology Sub-Committee. Minnesota State
Colleges and Universities and Univ. of Minnesota. Reporting on desired competencies for studnets, graduate students, and
faculty.
- Information Literacy at Florida
International University. Florida International University. A Proposal for the Faculty Senate from the Undergraduate Council.
- National Forum on Information Literacy, Information
Literacy in Higher Education. AskERIC.
- Nicole Auer, Bibliography
on Evaluating Internet Resources Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.Resources on using critical thinking skills in evaluating research
information gathered over the Internet.
- Information Literacy, University of South
Florida, School of Library and Information Science. Numerous
resources on information literacy.
- Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes,Information
Literacy as a Liberal Art. EDUCOM Review, March/April 1996, Vol. 31. No. 2.
- Faculty Workshop
on Information Literacy, Oberlin College.
- Information
Competence Project, California State Universities. Includes sample
training modules.
- Final Report of the Advocates for a
Common Experience. Northeastern University. 29 January 1997.
- Information Literacy Project.
University of Arizona Library.
- Information Literacy Home Page,
Florida International University Libraries.
- Mellon Project at
Austin College. Bringing information technology training into
the core curriculum.
- Computer Based Introductory IT Skills
Training, Durham University (UK).
- Skills and Capabilities
Curriculum, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside.Informative
web site on ULH's expansive learning skills training program.
- Using a NLSI to deliver the
Effective Learning Programme: Problems and Practicalities. Bob Hunter, Learning
Development Unit, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside.A
presentation paper on the modular ELP program.
- Computing Skills Workshop, on-line. Carnegie
Mellon University. Well-articulated, required "core" of
technology courses, taught by students. Includes on-line component.
- Web-based
Computing Competence Education. Chris Thyberg. Article on the
Carnegie Mellon approach to basic computing competence.
- Travelers of the Electronic
Highway. Cornell University. A required session for all new
students.
- Project Renaissance,
University of Albany. A 12 credit sequence in "human identity
and technology", fulfilling a number of "common core" requirements.
Includes an information technology component.
- NetLearn: Internet
Learning Resources. The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. A directory of resources for learning and teaching Internet skills.
- Uwired. A
pilot project at the University of Washington to equip and train some first year students
- Get Ready,
University of Oregon. Training for freshman at the University of
Oregon in e-mail, World Wide Web, and the Library's online information system
- Karen Leach and David Smallen, What Do Information Technology
Support Services Really Cost?. CAUSE/EFFECT, Volume 21, Number 2, 1998,
pp.38-45. A high-quality effort to quantify the costs of providing information services in
higher education.
- Technoplanning.
Maricopa Community Colleges. Resources in technology planning.
- Robert C. Heterick, Jr., James R. Mingle, and Carol A. Twigg,The Public Policy Implications of
a Global Learning Infrastructure. A Report from a Joint NLII-SHEEO Symposium Denver,
Colorado, November 13-14, 1997.
- John L. Oberlin, The
Financial Mythology of Information Technology: Developing a New Game Plan, CAUSE/EFFECT,
Volume 19, Number 2, Summer 1996, pp. 10-17.
- Links to technology
planning resources, Maricopa Community College.
- Real Education, Inc. Company assists
universities to build and deliver on-line courses.
- The NODE Learning Technologies Network , Ontario,
CA. The Node's "Technologies for Learning" pages provides
help with instructional technology through "organizing and contextualizing
information, critical analyses and the experiences of colleagues."
- The Instructional Management System
Project. EDUCOM.Developing standards to encourage integration of
network-based learning modules, etc.
- Share Carolina. Academic Technology
and Networks, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Locally
developed internet development tools.
- IBM's Global Campus. IBM products to help support virtual universities.
- Course creation links
William D. Milheim, Associate Professor of Education, Penn State Great Valley.
- WebCT. A web page
creator for class use
- CourseInfo's Blackboard.
A web page creator for class use
- Web Course in a Box A web page creator for class use
- EASI: Equal Access to Software and Information.TLT Group. "People with disabilities
must have the same access to information and resources as everyone else. EASI's mission is
to promote this access."
- CSILE (Computer Supported Intentional
Learning Environment). The Centre for Applied Cognitive Science at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the
University of Toronto
- The Instructional Technology
Primer. Trinity College (CT). Provides faculty with an overview
of instructional technology.
- Students and the Web:
Opportunities and Obstacles, faculty workshop. Trinity College (CT). Some notes from a workshop series.
- The TLT Group. The teaching,
learning, and technology affiliate of the American Association of Higher Education.
- TechKnowLogia.
"an international online journal that provides policy makers, strategists,
practitioners and technologists at the local, national and global levels with a strategic
forum to ...[e]xplore the vital role of different information technologies."
- Helpful Web Links: Using the Web in
the Classroom, Ohio Wesleyan University
- Asynchronous Learning Networks, Vanderbilt University.Ongoing project on web-based learning.
- ARTT's Guide to Making Good
Decisions About Using Instructional Technology. Teaching Effectiveness Program,
University of Oregon.
- Current Cites. University of
California - Berkeley. Annotated citations of current literature in
information technology. Part of Berkeley
Digital Library SunSITE.
- Horizon Home Page. The home
page of the On the Horizon print publication.
- The Information Society Indiana
University. Journal about information technologies and changes in
society and culture.
- The World Lecture Hall. University of Texas at Austin. Many pointers
to practical resources in
instructional technology, by discipline
- Kairos. A Journal For Teachers of Writing
in Webbed Environments. A richly hypertextual on-line journal hosted
by Texas Tech University
- The Technology Colloquium.
Microsoft, Inc. A monthly publication on IT. Seeks submissions.
- Lingua MOO. D. Diane Davis .
A site on teaching with MOOs.
- TechLinc. Georgia
Tech's MOO with avatars and text balloons. Based on Palace.
- Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. University of Maryland
- UC Berkeley, School of Information Management and
Systems
- Intellectual Property
and Technology Forum, Boston College Law School.
"...[P]roviding readers with rigorous, innovative scholarship, timely reporting, and
ongoing discussion from the legal community concerning technology law and intellectual
property."
- The U.S. Technology Corps."[V]olunteers
from the technology community who advise and assist schools in the ... integration of new
technologies into the educational system."
- Guiding Principles for Distance
Learning in a Learning Society. American Council on Education, The Center for Adult
Learning and Educational Credentials.
- Systemwide Higher Education Policy Resources,
Distance Education Report
- Neil Postman, Informing
Ourselves to Death. Speech to the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft fuer
Informatik), October 11, 1990, Stuttgart, Germany.
- PBS Newshour
on-line forum with Neil Postman, Wednesday 1/17/96.
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