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The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education
reviewed by Brent Muirhead - 2003 Title: The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education
Author(s): Matthew Serbin Pittinsky Publisher: Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs ISBN: 0130428299, Pages: 231, Year: 2003 Search for book at Amazon.com The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet
on Higher Education provides insights into the potential of
internet technologies for bringing instructional changes that will
influence traditional universities. Today's college administrators
and teachers are realizing that computer-mediated education
requires developing a new contemporary vision of learning.
The book is a product of meetings in April 2001 in Washington,
D.C. that involved a host of speakers who represented government,
business, and academic fields. The leaders focused on debating
whether e-learning was having an evolutionary (slow) or
transformative (sudden) impact on higher education.
As the editor Matthew Pittinsky, cofounder of Blackboard,
presents these terms as a major theme to connect the series of
essays. It was somewhat surprising that the debate involving the
concepts of evolutionary and transformative was quickly resolved at
the beginning of the book. The editor stressed that the successful
application of technology to higher education will involve having
smaller changes that will affirm important institutional values. It
is a conservative perspective on the future... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Brent Muirhead
University of Phoenix Online E-mail Author Brent Muirhead is a faculty member at the University of Phoenix Online, teaches graduate online classes, and trains and mentors new faculty members. His research has involved studying interactivity (participation, communication and feedback) in graduate education classes. He writes a monthly column as the Editor of Online Learning for the electronic publication USDLA Journal and is an Associate Editor for Educational Technology & Society.
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