by Diana Oblinger, EDUCAUSE Review
One theme of the articles is clear: we cannot focus on technology alone. However, we must be alert to the new models it has enabled: Amazon, eBay, Wikipedia, Facebook, Match.com, and Twitter, for example. New models and possibilities are emerging in education as well. Staley and Trinkle refer to the “new invisible college,” in which “networked and self-organizing teams of researchers are responsive to new ideas and new research problems.” They also note how some scholars have reframed the “brain drain” as a “brain exchange” among many countries. “Academic mobility,” which Staley and Trinkle call as much a state of mind as it is the travel of students, professors, and administrators, can be enabled by information technology. Today’s constant interconnection of individuals, ideas, and cultures has been accelerated by technology.
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