By Tony Bates, on February 19th, 2010
McCrea, B. (2010) Getting face-to-face with distance education Campus Technology, February 17.
Another really interesting article. If online teaching has a ‘birth’, it was at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, when Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz started experimenting with collaborative learning for classroom based students but using the Internet (see Hiltz, [...]
By Tony Bates, on February 9th, 2010
McCrea, B. (2010) Shifting campus IT priorities Campus Technology, February 4
This article looks at how Purdue University’s “renewed” strategic plan would focus on improving IT operations, including a reevaluation of the school’s IT governance structure and an expansion of its strategic sourcing efforts. This article is interesting because it focuses on how to move from [...]
By Tony Bates, on January 27th, 2010
McCrea, B. (2010) Pioneering mobile learning Campus Technology, January 27
If you can get past the really irritating Blackboard advertisement that blocks the whole content on all articles in the online version of Campus Technology, this article contains a useful account of how Abilene Christian University is using mobile learning for ‘real’ teaching. It has built [...]
By Tony Bates, on December 12th, 2009
McCrea, B. (2009) 5 Higher Ed Trends to Watch in 2010 Campus Technology, December 9
Here is the first of the predictions for educational technology trends for 2010. If this is the way of the future, frankly I give up. We should just stop trying to use technology in higher education, and give the money to [...]
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