ResourceGuide
Books
Richard N. Katz
and Julia A. Rudy, eds., Information Technology in Higher Education:
Assessing Its Impact and Planning for the Future (San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass, 1999) -- provides guidance to campus leaders, information
technologists, and institutional researchers for understanding how information
technology investments should be made, measured, and assessed
Michael J. Jacobson
and Robert B. Kozma, Innovations in Science and Mathematics Education:
Advanced Designs for Technologies of Learning (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, 1999) -- offers a snapshot of current work that
is attempting to identify innovative ways to design and use the newest
technologies to advance learning in science and mathematics
Richard Ekman and
Richard E. Quandt, eds., Technology and Scholarly Communication
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999) -- presents case studies
and insights on various scholarly electronic publishing topics including
finances, copyright, and market forces
Redmond Kathleen
Molz and Phyllis Dain, Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public
Library in the Information Age (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999) -- describes
the challenges created by new electronic technologies, changing public
policy, fiscal realities, and cultural trends
Larry P. English,
Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality: Methods
for Reducing Costs and Increasing Profits (New York: Wiley, 1999)
-- gives techniques for ensuring data quality both in source databases
and in the data warehouse
Peter Lunenfeld,
ed., The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (Cambridge:
MIT Press, 1999) -- presents interdisciplinary essays on the interactive
potential of new computer-based media and technology
Paul Levinson,
Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium (New York:
Routledge, 1999) -- explains how Marshall McLuhan's theories about the
impact of the media are manifest in the Internet and today's information
technologies
Janet Abbate, Inventing
the Internet (Inside Technology) (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999) --
recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet
to develop, focusing on the social and cultural factors that influenced
the Internet's design and use
Andrew Shapiro,
The Control Revolution: How New Technology Is Putting Individuals
in Charge and Changing the World We Live In (New York: PublicAffairs,
1999) -- shows how new technologies allow individuals to take power
from institutions, causing hierarchies to unravel in politics, commerce,
and social life
Dan Schiller, Digital
Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (Cambridge: MIT
Press, 1999) -- argues that market-driven forces created digital networks,
with harmful results for economic equality and higher education
Web Sites
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/cit/de/deprimer/
-- "Distance Education: A Primer" serves as a guide to developing distance
education programs, written by the Center for Instructional Technologies
at the University of Texas
University of Idaho link no longer available
-- discusses curriculum and course development, teaching strategies,
use of interactive videoconferencing, and other aspects of distance
education
http://telecampus.edu
-- provides resources for online course developers and educators and
lists online courses offered by educational institutions and private
organizations around the world
http://www.benton.org/Library/Native
-- Benton Foundation report discusses the use of information technology
resources, including educational IT, in American Indian communities
http://www.unesco.org/webworld
-- lists resources on the development and use of information technologies
in various fields, including education, throughout the world
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IAED
-- site sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and
the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research lists
abstracts, data files, and research reports related to education in
the United States and other countries
http://www.victoriapoint.com/catalyst.htm
-- "Catalyst" provides information about computers in the field of psychology,
with articles and resources on subjects such as cyberpsychology, human-computer
interaction, and technology in education
http://www.rider.edu/users/suler/psycyber/psycyber.html
-- online book presents Professor John Suler's research into how participants
behave in online environments
