March, 2001

Editor's Corner 

For those who may be curious, I take a skeptical, but hopefully constructive, approach to the integration of technology into teaching.  There will be many different approaches to this  integration and arguments as to whether it is appropriate, effective, and efficient for particular topics, disciplines, students, or professors. It will take a long time to sort this all out, meanwhile the rapid pace of technological innovation continues.  Mr. Chips replaced by chip technology? Not likely, but we will see.

Build (and protect) the future.

Bruce

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Send them to blbird@mail.aacc.cc.md.us

Faculty View

Professor Says Colleges Should Eschew Commercial Software 

Author Says Colleges Must Reallocate Money to Academic Technology

A Revolutionary Idea in Publishing -Economists plan online venture to challenge dominance of academic-journal companies 

Student View

Students Find a Web Site to Be a Valuable Supplement to a Poetry Anthology 

Faculty Resources

Active Learning For The College Classroom

Kairos  is an electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level, including Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature.

Education Network Australia - Online (EdNA)

• Higher Education Sector

  • Resources

The Node Learning Technologies Network  

• Pedagogy in Practice

  • Facilitating Online Interactivity

  • instructional design resources

*National Institute for Science Education -College Level 1  "The NISE College Level One Team, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a nationwide community of post-secondary science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) faculty, education researchers, faculty developers, and students."

• Collaborative Learning
• Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide
• Learning Through Technology

K-12 

StudyWeb

emTech

*Is the Digital Divide the New Civil Rights Issue?

CALT : K-12 

Online Course Evaluation 

Pro   Plugging in to Course Evaluation

Con    Electronic Course Evaluation Is Not Necessarily the Solution

Distance Learning

What Matters in Judging Distance Teaching? Not How Much It's Like a Classroom Course

Online Course at U. of Central Florida Examines Space Policy, Past and Present

• Space Policy

World Association for Online Education

Teaching Beyond the Classroom

Connected Counseling   AACC's Dr. Lou Aymard expands his audience.

Teaching with Technology

UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology.

Does Technology Make a Difference?  International Conference on Learning with Technology, March 8-10, 2000

• Conference Papers
  • Conference Paper Index Sorted by Title
    • Delivering Effective On-line Education: Some Issues of Platforms, Protocols, and Instructional Design  (PDF format)

Web Page Design

*Introducing Web Accessibility  (Web Review 3/2/01)

CALT: Web Accessibility

70 Ways To Handle Text-Intensive Web Sites

TutorialFind

Higher Education and Technology

Internet 2  ^"Internet2 is a consortium being led by over 180 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today´s Internet in its infancy. The primary goals of Internet2 are to:

-Create a leading edge network capability for the national research community

-Enable revolutionary Internet applications

-Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the broader Internet community."

• FAQs

net.work.Maryland

• UMATS EXPANSION AND THE MARYLAND EDUCATIONAL NETWORK

e-Learning

Australian Students Protest Plan for Global Online University  

Can we bank on e-learning? -"The online education market is still in grade school. One thing for sure: e-learning companies have a lot of homework to do."  Red Herring, February 13, 2001  This is the introduction to several articles concerning the e-learning business.

• Software and hardware customers e-learn the ropes - "Companies like Lucent and Nortel Networks, in looking to tie up market share, have decided that a well-trained customer is a loyal customer."
• VCs go back to the drawing board - " After dumping billions into e-learning startups, venture capitalists are finally slowing down. They learned a hard lesson in over investment."

Trends?

*Missouri Joins Minnesota, Michigan, Oklahoma, Kansas, Washington and New York in Partnering with Academic Systems through Widespread System and State Agreements

Academic Systems

• Interactive Mathematics
• Interactive English

Impact?

**Who Is Teaching In U.S. College Classrooms? -A Collaborative Study of Undergraduate Faculty, Fall 1999

• Summary of Data from Surveys by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce

• Press Release: November 22, 2000

 "Full-time faculty are being replaced by lower paid part-time teachers attractive to higher education administrators, who are under pressure to keep costs down.  In addition to receiving few if any benefits, most of these faculty members receive less than $3,000 per course (Table 4).  Nearly one third of them earn $2,000, or less per course.  In fields like English and history nearly half of the part-timers are in this category.  At this rate of pay, part-time teachers­—almost all of whom have the masters degree and many of whom have the PhD—would have to teach five courses to earn between $12,000 to $15,000 a year.  They could earn comparable salaries as fast food workers, baggage porters, or theater lobby attendants.  "One does not need PhD in mathematics to calculate how many classes such a historian would have to teach to earn a decent living, or to realize that it is impossible for most adjuncts to function as research scholars or keep up with historical literature under these conditions," observed to Eric Foner, President of the American Historical Association and Professor of History at Columbia University."