EDUCAUSE Review Articles, Teaching and Learning, and Instructional Design

The author discusses the importance of using the current technology in higher education is to teach the students to be aware and engaged with the world around them.

Leadership in IT requires a focus on current technology innovation, adoption, and impact on learning, but most important, leadership in IT requires understanding the alignment of external factors—access, affordability, perceived quality—to the core mission and integrity of the institution.

The authors discuss reality of online course development, that it no longer is one faculty member going it alone and experimenting with new technology. Today it takes a team of people from faculty, to instructional designers to make online learning a worthy enterprise.