Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, August 09, 2002

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0249.pdf

Leadership: A New Role - Technology in Higher Ed
Lev Gonick

....With a handful of exceptions, the marginal added value afforded by technology in the teaching arena has been a fundamental disappointment. Yes, some faculty members are resistant, some are stubborn, and some are counter-revolutionary. But the truth is that technology itself and those of us who represent the corporate and institutional agents of change in the teaching environment have thus far failed. Across the United States today, teaching-related technology investments on campuses are at risk, and many technology champions are in retreat. Until technology becomes a core part of the teaching environment, it will not be seen as truly strategic. Until technology solutions are internalized within the teaching practice, recurring investment in technology will be seen as less than necessary....

 



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