Educom Review table of contents

Volume 34, Number 6
November/December 1999

Learning, Communications
and Information Technology
Educom Review explores the changing ways we will work, learn, and communicate in the digital world of the 21st century. The accelerating pace of development in computer and communications technology is transforming education. Educom Review monitors those developments along with related issues in management, planning, law, and policy.
An EDUCAUSE publication

Features

The Telecom Act, the Internet, and Higher Education
 The Internet is the biggest threat to the system of higher education in this country.
by Reed Hundt

Scaling up IT: Weighing the Options, Maintaining the Balance
The mountainous task of integrating information technology within an institution is challenging but also invigorating.
by José-Marie Griffiths

What Should We Call the Net?
None of the three metaphors currently used to describe the Net adequately address the role of university research and instruction in a national innovation policy.
by Peter Lyman

The Instructional Management Systems Cooperative: Converting Random Acts of Progress into Global Progress
The IMS Cooperative is undergoing a transition to a new organizational and governance structure.
by William H. Graves

Interview

Toward a Model of Distributed Learning: An Interview with Mike Fitzgerald
"Education isn't something that happens to you; it's something you do."

 

Departments

TechWatch
Information technology in the news.

policy@edu
Increasing Broadband Access
While Congress and the FCC debate broadband deployment, the higher education community has developed its own approaches.

Excerpt

The Role of Advanced Networks in the Education of the Future
by Carole A. Barone and Mark A. Luker
From Mark Luker, ed., Preparing Your Campus for a Networked Future