Peder Saether Symposium (March 9-10, 2000)
Related Readings
Bates, A. W. (1997). "Restructuring the University for Technological Change." Presented at What Kind of University?, London, England.
Casper, Gerhard. (1995). "Come the Millennium, Where the University?" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
The president of Stanford University reflects on the first thousand years of universities and the years to come.
Distance Education and Technology Research Projects. The University of British Columbia. .
Three case studies of the cost-benefits of telelearning.
Duderstadt, James. (1998). "Transforming the University to Serve the Digital Age." CAUSE/EFFECT 20 (4), 21-32.
The University of Michigan President Emeritus and Professor of Science and Engineering discusses challenges and opportunities facing universities.
Gifford, Bernard. (1999). "Computer-mediated instruction and learning in higher education: Bridging the gap between promise and practice." Presented at the 104th Annual Meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, Chicago, IL.
Green, Kenneth C., and Robin Jenkins. (1998). "IT Financial Planning 101: Developing an Institutional Strategy for Financing Technology." NACUBO.
Massy, William F., and Robert Zemsky. (1995). "Using Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity." National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) and Educom.
This white paper on academic productivity examines the potential of information technology in higher education, barriers to its implementation, and potential for productivity gains.
"NASULGC Universities: Connecting with the Future--How do they do IT? How do they pay for IT?" (1999). National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC).
This new publication reports survey findings on institutional IT initiatives, priorities, and sources of funding. It also provides a short summary of each respondent's information-technology initiatives.
"The No Significant Difference Phenomenon." (1999)..
This site provides a database of selected entries from the book The No Significant Difference Phenomenon (5th ed.), which includes 355 research reports, summaries, and papers on technology for distance education.
Press, Eyal, and Jennifer Washburn. (2000). "The Kept University." The Atlantic Monthly 285 (3), 39-54.
"Commercially sponsored research is putting at risk the paramount value of higher education -- disinterested inquiry. Even more alarming, the authors argue, universities themselves are behaving more and more like for-profit companies."
Rudenstine, Neil L. (1998). "The Internet and Education: A Close Fit." Global Anthological Journal of Action Learning (GAJAL) 1.
A Harvard University professor explains why the Internet, like the forbidding mass libraries introduced in the late 18th century, will be embraced as an important part of university education.
Twigg, Carol A. (1999). "Improving Learning & Reducing Costs: Redesigning Large-Enrollment Courses." The Pew Learning and Technology Program.
The first monograph from the Pew Symposia on Learning and
Technology.
"What's the Difference? A Review of Contemporary Research on the Effectiveness of Distance Learning in Higher Education." (1999). The Institute for Higher Education Policy.
"This report reviews a broad array of research and articles published in the last decade to determine the overall quality of the analysis, the gaps in the research, and the implications of the research for the future."
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