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Saturday, December 28, 2002
Campus Computing Looks Ahead: Tracking the Digital Puck - Kenneth C. Green, Syllabus
Legend has it that when Wayne Gretsky was asked why he was so successful as a hockey player, he responded by saying that he always tried to skate to where the puck was going to be, not to where it was. The notion of the "digital puck" as a metaphor for information technology in higher education seems appropriate: Sometimes the puck moves very fast, sometimes slow, and its movement is often erratic. Moreover, there are lots of people and institutions that always seem to be chasing the puck—sometimes going to where the puck was, sometimes trying to anticipate where the puck is going. A continuing source of information about the direction of information technology in higher education is the 12-year-old Campus Computing Project (www.campuscomputing.net), the largest continuing study of information technology on American campuses.
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