EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Teaching

Transformational faculty-development efforts must involve systematic, goal-directed, sustained activities that are integral to the daily work of academic community members.

As faculty members confront the expanding impact that technology is having on their scholarship, research, teaching, and students, IT organizations must assess their role in shaping, implementing, and supporting the assimilation of IT into the teaching and learning process.

The author points out the positives and negatives to students having internet and computer access during class.

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.

The author discusses the problem of there being no "logical place in current curricular models or college/university faculty charts to locate core, nonspecialized coursework that unifies the acquisition of a basic new-literacy skill set".

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.

To create a new context for learning, higher education needs to find the opportunities in the space between—between the raw technology and the new tools, between the way that things have traditionally been done and the way that things can possibly be done.

One damaging effect of the clash between the academic and IT cultures is that teaching and scholarship have remained relatively untouched by the new information technologies.