 The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Educationreviewed 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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