In the September-October 1999 issue of Academe, Vol. 85 and No.5,
*Education Bytes: The Problems and Promises of Technology* -- The Editor
of Academe: Education Bytes, Prof. Ellen Schrecker mentioned in the
Editorial note.. "My conversion to virtual education occurred last
spring, when I walked into my classroom and found my students arguing
ferociously-about the assigned reading. I had set up an electronic
Listserv, posted a question about World War I, and encouraged the students
to discuss it online. Once they got to class, the debate intensified.
Whatever lingering doubts I had about the educational benefits of
technology, that afternoon's experience mostly dispelled them".
Now, my point of views are that -- The new technologies raise serious
structural, pedagogical, and legal issues that, because of the speed at
which higher education is turning virtual, faculty members can no longer
ignore.
As..Wendy Maloney has written in her article "Brick and Mortar Campuses Go
Online" at <http://www.aaup.org/SO99Malo.htm> She wrote, "...Online
education programs are in their infancy at regular colleges and
universities. The nontraditional student they serve are satisfied and
despite about cheating and intellectual property, so are most professors
who teach online"..
Also, Prof. Feenberg has written about Technology can enhance the
curriculum..and profits over pedagogy in his article on "No Frills in the
Virtual Classroom" which can be available at
<http://www.aaup.org/SO99Feen.htm>
One can also find..the following article such as *The Distance Education*
--Utopianism pervades most thinking about online education. by Prof.
Philip Agre ..but the article of Prof. Agre can be found at
<http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/academe.html> and on
*Technology's Grand Challenges* --Revolution is in making..by Prof.
Stephen Ehrmann..one can read the draft of this article *Technology in
Higher Learning: A Third Revolution* at
<http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/dthirdrev.html> or *Grand Challenges
Raised by Technology: Will This Revolution Be a Good One?* at
<http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/grand_challenges_raised_by_techn.htm>
Technology will enhance the teaching and learning style -if properly used.
As Stephen Ehrmann and Andrew Feenberg explain in their article.
Technology may also change scholarly communications.
--some points to be thoughts--
Will technology make classrooms, libraries, and books obsolete? If
technology does revolutionize the university, how can we make sure that it
doesn't exacerbate the growing gap between higher education's haves and
have-nots?
Also, one can find the other papers with the printed version of the
Academe Journal..
Full reading at <http://www.aaup.org/acahome.htm>
--Your thoughts are welcome--
Kind Regards
Arun Tripathi
University of Dortmund
WAOE Multilingual Coordinator
<http://www.waoe.org>
--Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
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