Information Technology Initiatives in Higher Education

General Resources
National Educational IT Initiatives
Campus / System / Region-Wide IT Initiatives
Other Higher-Ed Related IT Initiatives
IT Programs / Centers / Institutes
Just-In-Time Learning (JITL) (on Academe Imitates the Corporation page)
Distance Learning
"Virtual Universities"
Impact of IT on Research, Teaching, and Learning
Faculty Training and Support
Intellectual Property Issues Relating to Academic IT
Access to IT
IT Companies with Programs or Web Sites for Education

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General Resources

• Erwin Boschmann, ed., The Electronic Classroom: A Handbook for Education in the Electronic Environment (Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1995)
• Cause/Effect ("a practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources) (Educause)
• Change, Especially Technological Change, and Its Impact on Education & Training (Dell Campbell, U. Southern Queensland, Australia)
• Chorus - Exploring New Media in the Arts & Humanities ("software reviews, original research, bibliographies, annotated link collections and Shockwave demonstrations" on the use of new media in the humanities; this is the reopened version of the site originally founded by Todd Blayone)
• Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) ("an organization to advance the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity") (Assoc. of Research Libraries / CAUSE / EDUCOM)
  1. Institution-Wide Information Strategies (IWIS) | White Paper (1997) | Projects (Coalition for Networked Education)
• Larry Cuban, Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 (New York: Teachers College Press, 1986)
• Curriculum Connections: Integrating Internet Resources into the Curriculum (American Library Assoc.)
• Russell Edgerton, et al., Colleges Enter the Information Society (Washington, D.C.: Amer. Assoc. for Higher Education, 1983)
• Education & Technology (The Technology Page)
• EDUCAUSE (nonprofit consortium of higher education institutions formed by the merger of CAUSE and Educom to "focus on the management and use of computational, network, and information resources in support of higher education’s missions of scholarship, instruction, service, and administration")
  1. Selected Resources
  2. Conferences, Seminars, Institutes
  3. Publications
  4. Current Issues
  5. Information Resources
  6. Institutions (Educational and Corporate) Affiliated with Educom
• Educom Review (Educause)
• Georgetown U. Teaching, Learning, and Technology Roundtable
• Ervin L. Harlacher, ed., Cutting Edge Technologies in Community Colleges (Amer. Assoc. of Community Colleges, 1988)
• Higher Education and Technology (links to resources and companies relevant to the intersection between higher academe and technology) (U. Texas, Austin)
• David H. Jonassen, ed., Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology : A Project of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (New York: MacMillian, 1996)
• Barbara Lepani (U. Sydney), "Education in the Information Society" (1995) ("mindware integrates the five domains of culture, learning, technology, mind and organisation into a new industry cluster")
• National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) ("broad coalition of [U.S.] arts, humanities and social science organizations formed to assure the fullest possible participation of the cultural sector in the new digitally networked environment") (Amer. Council of Learned Societies / Coalition for Networked Information / Getty Information Institute)
• NEA (U.S. National Education Assoc.): Teachng, Learning, and Technology Page
• New Horizons in Scholarly Communication (large, detailed guide that "highlights trends affecting the process of creating, disseminating, retrieving, and using information for instruction and research at the university level") (Librarians Assoc. of U. California System)
  • I. Teaching and Research
    1. A. Introduction
    2. B. The Electronic Classroom--Sample Projects
    3. C. Citing Electronic Works
• New Tools for Teaching (James J. O'Donnell, U. Penn.)
• Syllabus Magazine (technology and teaching)
• Teaching with Electronic Technology (Michael L. Hall)
• Trends in the Delivery of Education -- Just In Time Education & Training Open & Distance Learning Life Long Learning (Dell Campbell, U. Southern Queensland, Australia)
• WWW Sites for Education & Training and Management of Education & Training (Dell Campbell, U. Southern Queensland, Australia)

National Educational IT Initiatives

• "A Transformation of Learning: Use of the NII (U.S. National Information Infrastructure) for Education and Lifelong Learning" (U.S. Government)
• Chronicle of Higher Education
1. "Britain Moves Forward With Plans for a Major E-University" (2 May 2000)
• The Dearing Report (UK) (see Featured Controversy) (IT is an important emphasis of the 1997 Dearing report, which guides the restructuring of higher education in the UK)
• NLII - National Learning Infrastructure Initiative ("a membership coalition of institutions and organizations sponsored by Educom")
1. Selected "Key Documents"
2. George Connick (Distant Education Publications), "Beyond a Place Called School" (1993)
3. William F. Massy (Stanford U.) and Robert Zemsky (U. Penn.), "Using Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity" (1995) (Educom)
4. Mark Resmer, Diana Oblinger, and James R. Mingle, "Computers for All Students: A Strategy for Universal Access to Information Resources" (1995) (Educom)
5. Carol A. Twigg, "The Need For A National Learning Infrastructure" (1994) (Educom Review)

Campus / System / Region-Wide IT Initiatives

• Warren J. Baker and Arthur S. Gloster II (California Polytechnic State U.), "Moving Toward the Virtual University: A Vision of Technology in Higher Education" (1994) (Cause/Effect)
• Gerald Bernbom (Indiana U.), "Institution-Wide Information Strategies" (1997)
• The Cal State Controversy
  • Update: C/Net, "College Tech Deal Folds" (June 29, 1998)
  • Selected Resources (for fuller bibliography, see Featured Controversy)
    1. "Technology Infrastructure Initiative Supporting Partnership Plan" (the Cal State plan to create a limited liability corporation "comprised of the four corporate partners [GTE, Fujitsu, Hughes, and Microsoft] and the CSU auxiliary") (CSU)
    2. FAQ for the TII (highlights of the plan in question-and-answer format) (CSU)
    3. C/Net, "Colleges to Give Windows Top Billing" (Nov. 24, 1997)
    4. Los Angeles Times, "A Farewell Warning," Jan. 7, 1998: B2 ("As he assumes his new job . . . former Chancellor Barry Munitz delivers a stark pronouncement to those who protest Cal State's creative financial arrangments")
    5. Los Angeles Times, "Microsoft Dropped from University Partnership," April 17, 1998: D1, D5 (coverage of new developments in the controversial Cal State system plan to partner with major technology firms) | see also C/Net, "Microsoft Drops Out of College Deal" (Apr. 16, 1998)
• California Virtual University ("an Internet-based, interactive catalog that contains the online and technology mediated course offerings of 81 accredited California colleges and universities"; "also links to 60 campus online libraries and offers a free course notification service"; the site also includes a variety of resources specifically addressed to faculty, students, and corporate training officers) | see California State Assembly Bill 2431 establishing the CVU
• CAUSE Current Issues Committee, "Current Issues for Higher Education Information Resources Management" (1997) (Cause/Effect)
• "Microsoft Does $6 Million College Deal" (Mar. 30, 1998) (report on the multimillion dollar deal between Indiana U. and Microsoft to upgrade the university's IT and give students, faculty, and staff free use of Microsoft products) (C/NET News.com)
• Institution-Wide Information Strategies (IWIS) | White Paper (1997) | Projects (Coalition for Networked Education)
• Marisa Johnson, Julia Leon, and Susan Mistretta (Emory U.), "Partnership in Supporting Computer Technology at Emory University" (1997) (Cause/Effect)
• David Murphy and Jeff Williams, "Using Regional Cooperation and Technology to Achieve Cost Savings: The Midwestern Higher Education Commission" (1997) (Cause/Effect)

Other Higher-Ed Related IT Initiatives

• Chronicle of Higher Education, " 'E-Commerce Entrepreneurs Eye the Textbook Market," July 3, 1998: A17

IT Programs / Centers / Institutes

• Columbia U. Institute for Learning Technology
• Georgetown U. Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology (M.A.)
• R & D Center for Information Technology in Education (TOTY) (U. Joensuu, Finland)
• U. Washington UWired Web
• Yale U. Center for Advanced Instructional Media

Just-In-Time Learning (JITL) (on Academe Imitates the Corporation page)

Distance Learning

(See also "Virtual Universities")

• George Connick (Distant Education Publications), "Beyond a Place Called School" (1993)
• Chris Dede (George Mason U.), "Distance Learning to Distributed Learning: Making the Transition" (1996) (International Society for Technology in Education / Educom)
• William H. Graves (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "Adapting to the Emergence of Educational Micro Markets" (1997) (Educom Review)
• Ramesh Jain, "Telepresence in Education: Building the Universal University" (1997) (Educom Review)
• Andrew C. Lawlor and Jeanne Rodier Weber, "Learning about Distance Learning" (1997) ("history and goals of a distance-learning demonstration project at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, as well as technical considerations, coordination activities, and instructional issues faced by the faculty") (Cause/Effect)
• Barbara Krauth (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education), "Principles of Good Practice for Distance Learning Programs" (1996)
• The MASIE Center ("distance learning, technology training, and new models of on-line learning")
• Thomas L. Russell (North Carolina State U.), "Television's Indelible Impact on Distance Education: What We Should Have Learned from Comparative Research" (1992) (Distance Education / Educom)
• "Should Distance Learning be Rationed? Point/Counterpoint with Larry Gold & James R. Mingle" (1996) ("The recent American Federation of Teachers report on How Unions Can Harness the Technology Revolution on Campus issued several recommendations on how to improve technology decision-making and use at U.S. institutions of higher education") (Educom Review)

"Virtual Universities"

(See also Distance Learning)

• California Virtual University ("an Internet-based, interactive catalog that contains the online and technology mediated course offerings of 81 accredited California colleges and universities"; "also links to 60 campus online libraries and offers a free course notification service"; the site also includes a variety of resources specifically addressed to faculty, students, and corporate training officers) | see California State Assembly Bill 2431 establishing the CVU
• The Online College Classroom ("annotated directory pointing to homepages with information on online courses being taught in colleges in the U.S. and around the world") (Jim Shimabukuro)
• Christopher Newport U. (Virginia): CNU Online (accredited B.A. degree programs via the Web)
• Global Campus
• Globewide Network Academy
• Usenet University FAQ
• Virtual Global College
• Virtual Online University
  • Athena U. ("a comprehensive, fully online university offering college-level courses via an interactive, electronic campus accessible to everyone on the Internet"; not yet accredited)
• Western Governors U.
  1. Governers' Goals for a Western Virtual University ("the governors want to better link educational and business opportunities by ensuring that state investments in and use of information technology contribute to a technology-rich environment within which private industry can function and on which it can depend") (Western Governors U.)
  2. Related:
     • Carol A. Twigg, "Is Technology a Silver Bullet?" (1996) (Educom Review)

Impact of IT on Research, Teaching, and Learning

• Automatic Essay Grading Technology
  1. Colorado Daily Online Edition, "Developers of new computer software claim the system can grade essay exams as well as people do . . ." (April 16, 1998)
  2. Latent Semantic Analysis | Annotated Essay Grading Demonstration (Institute of Cognitive Science, Dept. of Psychology, U. Colorado at Boulder)
• Warren Baker, Thomas Hale, and Bernard R. Gifford, "From Theory to Implementation: The Mediated Learning Approach to Computer-Mediated Instruction, Learning and Assessment" (1997) (Educom Review)
• David W. Brooks, Web-Teaching : A Guide to Designing Interactive Teaching for the World Wide Web (New York: Plenum, 1997)
• "James Burke: Making the Connections Between the Technology of Today and the Learning of Tomorrow" (1998) (interview with Burke; Educom Review)
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  1. "Journals Differ on Whether to Publish Articles That Have Appeared on the Web," July 17, 1998: A27
  2. "A Computer Requirement for Students Changes Professors' Duties As Well," June 26, 1998: A22 ("At U. of Florida, faculty members feel pressure to be as technologically savvy as those they teach")
  3. "Rethinking the Role of the Professor in an Age of High-Tech Tools" (Oct. 3, 1997) ("New technologies could take over many of the instructional duties that now define professors' jobs, according to faculty members who are peering into the future. Some of them are alarmed by what they see, while others are encouraged.") (Chronicle subscribers only)
• Dennis R. Falk and Helen Carlson, Multimedia in Higher Education: A Practical Guide to New Tools for Interactive Teaching and Learning (Medford, NJ: Learned Information, 1995)
• "William Graves: On the Emerging Knowledge Economy" (1998) (interview with Graves; Educom Review)
• Badrul Huda Khan, ed., Web-Based Instruction (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology, 1997)
• Crawford Kilian (Capilan C.), "F2F - Why Teach Online" (1997) (compares "face to face" and online teaching) (Educom Review)
• Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (U. Virginia), "Once Upon a Time in ENWR: The World-Wide Web as a Publication Medium for Student Essays"
• Diana Laurillard, Rethinking University Teaching: A Framework for the Effective Use of Educational Technology (London / New York: Routledge, 1993)
• Los Angeles Times, "Rewriting the Rules of Grading Essays," June 1, 1998, D5 (report on the "Intelligent Essay Assessor" system that, according to one of its creators, "uses a new mathematical analysis technique to learn word meanings from large bodies of text, then applies this to determine the similarity of meaning between a student essay and comparison essays that have been created or graded by an expert") | for demo of the system, see Latent Semantic Analysis (Institute of Cognitive Science, Dept. of Psychology, U. Colorado, Boulder)
• MOO: The Virtual Classroom (James J. O'Donnell, U. Penn.)
• The Paperless Classroom Project (Gerald L. Smith, U. of the South, Tennessee)
• Rachel Rahe, "Internet: User Friendly or Technological Overload?" (1997) (student newspaper article on teachers experimenting with instructional use of the Internet) (Bulletin Online: The Emporia State Student Newspaper)
• Stephen Ruth, "Getting Real About Technology-Based Learning: The Medium is NOT the Message" (1997) (Educom Review)
• Ben Shneiderman, "Educational Journeys on the Web frontier Teaching your students where to go and how to get there" (1998) (Educom Review)
• Teaching and Learning Via the Network ("projects that use networking and networked information resources and services in the broadest possible ways to support and enhance teaching and learning") (Coalition for Networked Information)
• TechWeb, "Educational Elite Will Deliver Digitally, Says Ellison" (May 26, 1998) ("Educators will make thousands, even millions of dollars teaching courses like Physics 101 [Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said]. . . . The bad news is that there will only be about 60 of them who will be doing it.")
• Carol Twigg, "Academic Productivity: The Case for Instructional Software" (1996) (Educom)
• John Unsworth (U. Virginia), "Constructing the Virtual Campus" (1994)
• U.S. News & World Report, "How Multimedia Computer Technology is Reshaping the Way Students Learn and Professors Teach," Sept. 28, 1992
• Jack M. Wilson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.) and David N. Mosher, "The Prototype of the Virtual Classroom" (1994) (Journal of Instruction Delivery Systems / Educom)

Faculty Training and Support

• Robert DeSieno (Skidmore C.), "Netlaw: The Faculty and Digital Technology" (1995) ("At a time when colleges and universities are investing heavily in digital technology-computers, CD-ROM, high-speed networks-many faculty are somewhat cautious and skeptical about applying it to teaching and learning") (Educom Review)
• Sara Kiesler, "Working Together Apart" (1994) ("Is it possible for people to collaborate who are separated by department and profession, and perhaps also by geography? Can technology help in this process? This article offers a definition of collaboration, identifies processes that make collaboration difficult, and explores two features of networked communication that are important to collaboration") (Cause/Effect)
• Janet R. de Vry, Judy A. Greene, Sandra Millard, and Patricia Sine (U. Delaware), "Teaming Up to Develop a Faculty Institute on Teaching, Learning and Technology" (1996)
• Karen L. Smith (U. Central Florida), "Preparing Faculty for Instructional Technology: From Education to Development to Creative Independence" (1997) (Cause/Effect)

Intellectual Property Issues Relating to Academic IT

• Dan L. Burk (School of Law, Seton Hall U.), "Ownership of Electronic Course Materials in Higher Education" (1997) (Cause/Effect)
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  1. "Who Owns On-Line Courses? Colleges and Professors Start to Sort It Out" (Dec. 17, 1999)
• Karen Hersey (MIT), "Coping With Copyright and Beyond: New Challenges as the Library Goes Digital" (1995) (Cause/Effect)
• Barry D. Weiss (Gordon & Glickson P.C.), "Technology Transfer from the Ivory Tower to the Marketplace" (1996) (Educom Review)

Access to IT

• Norman Coombs, "Closing the Windows on Opportunity" (1995) ("I am a blind history professor, and while I functioned professionally for years without a computer, the use of an adapted computer has dramatically increased my independence and my professional output. . . . The rapid adoption of the graphical user interface (gui) is threatening all these advances and could restrict or totally cancel many of these advances, especially for blind computer users") (Educom Review)
• Steven E. Miller (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility), "Beyond the Classroom" (1996) (Educom Review)
• Mark Resmer, Diana Oblinger, and James R. Mingle, "Computers for All Students: A Strategy for Universal Access to Information Resources" (1995) (Educom)

IT Companies with Programs or Web Sites for Education

• Apple Education Page | Apple in Higher Education (site includes "Learning Community Connection" forum)
• IBM Higher Education Page (site includes "campus showcase" articles and discussion forums)
• Microsoft in Higher Education (site includes case studies and articles by educators)
• Related Discussion
  1. Karen Southwick (Upside), "Priming the Pump: Public/Private Technology Partnerships" (1997) (Educom Review)