Why Technology?, by Laurence R. Alvarez
Six distinguished leaders in higher education address fundamental questions about information technology and learning
Technology in the Classroom--From Theory to Practice, by Warren Baker
Mediated Learning passes the test.
Learning from Learners, Internet Style, by Neal Howard Brodsky
Merging new styles with old structures.
The Early Educom, by Henry Chauncey
The remarkable group of professionals whose vision became Educom were missionaries both at home and among their colleagues in other institutions.
Closing the Windows on Opportunity, by Norman Coombs
Recent gains by people with disabilities are threatened by the increased use of graphical interface.
Building the Campus Infrastructure that Really Counts, by Stephen L. Daigle
A model for the technology-driven transformation of education.
Business Designs for The New University, by Peter J. Denning
Market and political forces are conspiring to change the framework of higher education.
The Faculty and Digital Technology, by Robert DeSieno
At a time when Higher Ed is investing heavily in digital technology, faculty are cautious about its use.
A Little Classroom Magic: Jack Child interview., by Educom Review Staff
One Latin American culture professor goes beyond word processing to prove that computing and teaching are highly compatible.
Talking with Microsoft's Bill Gates , by Educom Review Staff
Microsoft's Bill Gates talks to Educom Review about technology, education, and the relationship between risk and innovation.
Michael H. Spindler, by Educom Review Staff
Apple Computer's recently appointed president and chief executive officer discusses the future of Apple, its commitment to education, and its position on the computer industry's new spirit of cooperation.
Here Comes the Sun: Scott McNealy Interview, by Educom Review Staff
Sun Microsystems' energetic and ambitious CEO talks with Educom Review about Sun's unique approach to open computing, the company's plans to invest in instructional technology, and the new era of industry consolidation.
Transforming and Preserving Education: Traditional Values in Question, by Educom Review Staff
Many believe that just as information technology is breaking down the hierarchies and bureaucracies of industrial society, so too will it bring about the demise of education as we know it. Six authorities explore the potential of technology to create a new education system. Moderator John Kernan with panelists (in order of commentary) Alan November, Seymour Papert, John Grillos, Bernard Gifford, Connie Stout, and David Niguidula.
Roger Schank: End Run to the Goal Line, by Educom Review Staff
Roger Schank doesn't just talk about learning by doing; he builds computer-based courseware that won't do the job any other way.
The Educational Technology Vision of Bernie Gifford, by Educom Review Staff
Bernie Gifford on the Changing Educational & Technical Landscape. Bernard R. Gifford has woven together an unusual career with roles spanning applied physics, policy analysis, educational administration, philanthropy, college teaching and academic administration. The latest addition to this list is entrepreneurship.
Slicing the Learning Pie, by Educom Review Staff
Stan Davis, author of Future Perfect and The Monster Under the Bed, talks about life-long learning and how technology is changing the nature of education.
A Matter of Degrees: Roy Romer interview, by Educom Review Staff
Roy Romer, 39th governor of Colorado, is a leader in the initiative to develop a university without walls or parking problems. This virtual university was first proposed at a meeting of the Western Governors Association in June 1995. Educom Review recently interviewed Governor Romer to find out how the Western Governors University would function compared to the traditional university setting, and in particular, how it would assess and certify its graduates.
Barnstorming with Lewis Perelman, by Educom Review Staff
A provocative interview with the author of "School's Out."
Raising the Bar on Universal Service: Larry Irving interview, by Educom Review Staff
Forcing a decision between investing in technology or putting a new roof on the schoolhouse is a "false choice," according to Larry Irving, administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Generalist in a Specialized World: Linda Stone Interview., by Educom Review Staff
Linda Stone is director of advanced technology and research at Microsoft and heads up Microsoft's virtual worlds group, which focuses on building multi-user, multimedia social environments.
RIchard Saul Wurman Interview, by Educom Review Staff
Technology and Learning: Celebrating the Connections. Richard Saul Wurman, author of the acclaimed Information Anxiety and 60 other books, is an architect, graphic designer, cartographer, and creator of the ACCESS Guide travel series. His celebrated "TED" conferences focus on the converging fields of technology, entertainment and design in the service of learning and communications.
Take Note! An Interview with Jeff Papows, by Educom Review Staff
As president of Lotus Development Corporation, Jeff Papows handles Lotus' financial and operational performance and overall strategy. In this interview with Educom Review, Papows discusses how technology will change education and the future of Lotus.
Marney Morris on the Art of Interactive Software Design, by Educom Review Staff
Marney Morris is founder and president of Animatrix, a design and consulting company based in Palo Alto, California, since 1984. Animatrix created the first guided tour of the Macintosh, product rollouts for best sellers from Microsoft, Adobe, Lotus and Hewlett-Packard, company-wide information systems for The Limited and Domino's Pizza, online projects for News Corp, TCI, Chase, Nynex, AT&T and Kleiner Perkins. Other clients have included Clinique, Perot Systems and The Walt Disney Company. Recently, she founded the new company Sprocket Works, which pushes the state of the art of interactive design on the Web. Marney received a B.S. in animal physiology from UC Davis and a B.F.A. from Santa Cruz. She lectures at Stanford University and has been a speaker in the Toyota Lecture Series at the Art Center College of Design.
New Technology, Old Trap, by Stephen C. Ehrmann
Beaming information to mass audiences, ironically, does not promote true learning.
Air University, by Geri Farman
Changing the education and training paradigm.
Information Technology and the Year 2020, by John Gehl
The real question for educators thinking about the year 2020 is, What will education be like in an age when no one talks about hardware and software platforms?
The Curriculum Has Run Its Course, by John Gehl
It's time to end lock-step education programs.
Learning, Technology, and the Atomic Hypothesis, by John Gehl
Education is an atomistic process.
Should Distance Learning Be Rationed?, by Larry Gold
Larry Gold, director of higher education for the American Federation of Teachers, and Jim Mingle, executive director of the State Higher Education Executives Officers, discuss their views on some of the more controversial issues raised in the recent AFT report.
Credits by Cable: The Mind Extension University, by Steve Gorski
As Mind Extension University brings higher education to the nearest television screen, students around the country are tuning in for their degrees.
Letter from Canada, by Brian Graham
The Follow Us project lets students participate in a realtime Arctic exploration without leaving the classroom.
The Learning Society, by William H. Graves
As information technology frees us from the constraints of time and space, it may be time for higher education to write a new mission statement.
Toward a National Learning Infrastructure, by William H. Graves
In Educom Review's special report on national networking, ten experts report on policy, legislation, ethics, higher education, and the new role of government in determining our information future.
Why We Need Internet II, by William H. Graves
The GII will further reduce human dependency on time and space.
Adapting to the Emergence of Educational Micro Markets, by William H. Graves
Applying the Heifetz Theory of leadership to distributed education.
There's One Thing for Sure about Paradigms -- Shift Happens, by Jack Gregg
A few lessons from the health care industry.
The Year of Metadata, by Steve Griffin
Exploring the benefits of Educom's NLII Instructional Management System.
Plain or Filtered: Considering a Filter Program? Some notes from a high school classroom., by Larry Guevara
The controversy over software filtering forcefully caught our attention when several people reported instances in which filtering software prevented our very own publication Edupage from reaching its full audience. Although Edupage, our Internet-distributed summary of information technology news, sometimes has a need to use such word as "sex" in reporting technology news, it is hardly a publication catering to prurient interests. So we invited Larry Guevara, one of the people who told us of this problem, to report and reflect on his personal experience with filtering software. -The Editors
The Convergence of Means, by James W. Hall
The revolution in technology and the modern university.
A New Order of Things, by Robert C. Heterick
We need a national learning infrastructure, but to build one would mean a fundamental change in the way we do business in education.
A Stone Soup, by Robert C. Heterick
Until we can prove that technology will be the lever that dramatically repositions the learning enterprise in our society, we have little chance of convincing our chief financial officers that it isn't just a black hole that sucks money on an annual basis.
Overcoming Murphy, by Robert C. Heterick
The big task in front of us is to lead educational enterprises in the difficult work of making major changes in core business process--teaching and learning.
The Shoemaker's Children, by Robert C. Heterick
Look anywhere in our economy and you will see most functions almost entirely dependent on technology. So why is the personal computer still little more than an adjunct to teaching?
The Dreaded "P" Word, by Robert C. Heterick
How do we show that information technology contributes to academic productivity? And just what is academic productivity?
A Platonic Paradox, by Robert C. Heterick
Reshaping the historic teaching paradigms.
Interpolating the Future, by Robert C. Heterick
Don't look backwards to see what lies ahead.
Inadequate Dogmas: New Thinking for New Times, by Robert C. Heterick
The prevailing wisdom is that the Net will never amount to anything until lots of folks can use it to make money...Wrong. And wrong on several counts.
Telepresence in Education: Building the Universal University, by Ramesh Jain
Multiple Perspective Interactive technology offers a new perspective on education.
Whither Humanities and Advanced Technologies?, by Paul Jones
Scholars need not be programmers to enjoy the fruits of technology.
Interactive Multimedia and the World Wide Web, by Howard Kaplan
A new paradigm for teaching and learning.
Revealing the Elephant:, by Alan Kay
The use and misuse of computers in education.
Designing for an Educational Revolution, by Larry Keeley
Technology and innovation for major shifts in learning patterns.
2005: A Virtual Classroom Odyssey, by Crawford Kilian
Dazzling new technology too often leads us to imagine a utopian education future. In reality, it will create as many problems as it solves.
F2F: Why Teach Online, by Crawford Kilian
Face-to-face or cyberspace, each has its place.
The Network *is* the Killer Application, by Sandy Kyrish
Once again, utopia is just around the corner, where work, play, learning and commerce will be transformed by the latest technology. Haven't we heard this story before?
Moving Forward on Two Fronts, by Mark Luker
Education must push ahead on both spirals of Internet development.
Computing as Performance Art, by Peter Lyman
To an "expert," the computer is never really broken.
Beyond the Classroom, by Stephen E. Miller
While computer literacy alone is not enough to overcome the barriers of poverty, racism, sexism, or ageism, our public school system, for all its failings, is one of the few remaining inclusive institutions in our society. Infusing the schools with advanced communication technology is one of the best methods available for ensuring that everyone has access.
Getting Connected with Connect Ed, by Ira Nayman
Up close and personal with the long-distance classroom.
Will Books Become the Dumb Medium?, by Eli Noam
Get ready for a new and creative way to deliver knowledge.
Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up, by James S. Noblitt
Working together to set priorities. Making ends meet: A faculty perspective on computing and scholarship.
Can Information Technology Improve Education?, by Wendy Rickard Bollentin
Measuring voices, attitudes and perceptions.
Internet II, by Michael M. Roberts
The next-generation university network.
Wiring the Schools--Is This All Going to Work?, by Kenneth G. Robinson
Political enthusiasm for technology needs reality check by educators.
Technology Wars: Winners & Losers, by Thomas L. Russell
The No Significant Difference phenomenon. Individual differences in learning styles dictate that technology will facilitate learning for some, but will probably inhibit learning for others, while the remainder experience no significant difference.
Getting Real About Technology-Based Learning, by Stephen Ruth
The medium is NOT the message. Good content and good teaching, along with a model of the students as discoverers, not as receptacles--is what makes the difference.
Information Literacy as a Liberal Art?,
by Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelly K. Hughes
Enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum.
Where Steve Jobs Went Right, by Joel M. Smith
A recently released book about Steve Jobs gave the impression that NeXT offered little to colleges and universities, but many in higher education disagree.
Priming the Pump: Public/Private Technology Partnerships, by Karen Southwick
Corporate technology initiative ultimately help students.
Ethics Online, by Mary R. Sumner
Students & instructors have differing views on what's acceptable.
Three Futures of the Electronic University, by Thomas H. Thompson
To dream the possible dream.
The Changing Definition of Learning, by Carol A. Twigg
Society's expectations about what students need to learn and how they will learn it are driving certain fundamental changes in education itself. The big difference now is who is learning and when. Can education leap up?
The Need for a National Learning Infrastructure, by Carol A. Twigg
As the cost of higher education skyrockets and demographics shift, moving from a teacher-oriented environment to a learner-centered one is not only wise; it's imperative.
Navigating the Transition, by Carol A. Twigg
High-tech approaches to education that are "as good as" the face-to-face classroom model are not good enough. But can sexy (and costly) new technologies actually improve the quality of teaching and learning?
Is Technology a Silver Bullet?, by Carol A. Twigg
We won't know until we try.
Man Bites Dog: Government Report Worth Reading, by Carol A. Twigg
The federal Information Infrastructure Task Force's vision of a learning society.
A Chicken-Egg Dilemma, by Carol A. Twigg
It's time to create a market for interactive learning materials.
The Value of Independent Study, by Carol A. Twigg
Tomorrow's students will possess qualities of increased independence and self-reliance; readers respond.
The One Percent Solution, by Carol A. Twigg
Something's missing from campus technology investment strategies.
It's the Student, Stupid, by Carol A. Twigg
Software developers can create new markets for educational software by focusing on students.
Putting Learning on Track, by Carol A. Twigg
Students will benefit with a national learning infrastructure.
The Next-Generation Information Manager, by Hal Varian
Hal Varian, Dean of University of California at Berkeley's new School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), on designing a curriculum for the "cybrarian."
Technology and the Changing Boundaries of Higher Education, by David Ward
Savvy educators are creating the twenty-first century campus by destroying the barriers imposed on us by nineteenth-century thinking.
Socrates at the Terminal, by Norman Weinstein
Emotion's neglected role in high-tech education.
When Change is the Only Constant, by Samuel R. Williamson
Liberal education in the age of technology.
Distance Learning for Continuous Education, by Jack M. Wilson
Bringing the virtual classroom to the global work force.
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