Notes from the electronic classroom

✍ Scribed by Peter Navarro

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0276-8739
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6688(199824)17:1<106::aid-pam7>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

EDITOR'S NOTE

New electronic technology is rapidly changing the classroom teacher's job. In this article, a professor with unusually extensive experience and a critical and reflective viewpoint describes his experiences with the new technology. The impact of technology is not limited to conventional classroom teaching, but has major implications for distance learning and continuing education as well. Administratively, the new technology is rapidly changing the cost structure of higher education, bringing technical and support personnel closer to the student and creating opportunities to leverage academic staff in promising new ways. These same technological advances also create a world of haves and havenots among schools because the cost of the new technology is significant. Moreover, an institution's ability to use the technology, even if it can pay for it, is constrained by the long-lived nature of its physical facilities, which can make it difficult to accommodate new technology in old buildings. Over the next year, we intend to explore each of these issues in other articles. We invite readers to share their electronic classroom experiences with us.