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This is the second of three blogs that examine some basic assumptions about technology and education, based on a review of three books: ‘THE TOWER AND THE CLOUD‘, ‘CATCHING THE KNOWLEDGE WAVE‘, AND ‘THE INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES IN THE UNIVERSITY‘. (Click on the titles to see the reviews). The assumption In this blog, I [...] Purpose of this blog This is the first of three blogs that examine some basic assumptions about technology and education, based on a review of three books: ‘THE TOWER AND THE CLOUD‘, ‘CATCHING THE KNOWLEDGE WAVE‘, AND ‘THE INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES IN THE UNIVERSITY‘. (Click on the titles to see the reviews). In this [...] Review of: Gilbert, J. (2005) Catching the Knowledge Wave: the Knowledge Society and the Future of Education Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Council for Educational Research Not available online. To order, go to: http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?products_id=1215 This book argues that ‘the term “knowledge society” is a kind of shorthand for a completely new set of ideas about knowledge – [...] Over the next month, I will be doing several blogs around topics prompted by three books that look very different, but each of which raises critical questions about the role of technology in teaching and learning in higher education. The three books are: Katz, R. et al. (2008) The Tower and the Cloud Boulder CO: EDUCAUSE, [...] Two of the USA’s leading authorities on e-learning, Steve Ehrmann and Steve Gilbert, are behind the TLT Group, a non-profit organization that specializes in the planning and evaluation of e-learning. It has over 100 institutional subscribers, including some of the leading universities in the USA. Its more recent work includes: Flashlight Online 2.0, a survey tool for [...] |
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