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New technologies that enable cell phones to translate speech on the fly and read documents for the visually impaired could have important implications for both educators and students. Read the Full Article
ome scholars worry that Instant Messaging (IM), by virtue of the ease with which users can initiate and participate in online conversations, contributes to an increase in task interruption. Others argue that workers use IM strategically, employing it in ways that reduce interruption. This article examines the relationship between IM and interruption, using data collected […]
he world has become increasingly “flat,†as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.1 But at the same time that the world has become flatter, it has also become “spikierâ€: the […]
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education–and all other sectors, for that matter–face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users. Read the Full Article
With the worldwide adoption of the Internet as a ubiquitous platform for exchanging information, new opportunities are available for sharing educational experiences and material. Thousands of institutes worldwide offer access to courses, lessons, seminars, and exercises, typically stored in repositories and offered to users under a variety of formats. Due to their educational nature, these […]
Many of today’s virtual worlds have been influenced by science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson’s vision of a Metaverse, described in his novel Snow Crash.Read the Full Article
Describes the activity, outcomes and benefits of the Technology Exemplar Network,Read the Full Article
In the spring of 2005, I was asked to keynote the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference. The conference theme was “Winds of Change: Charting the Course for Technology in Challenging Times.” What that brought to my mind was the era of the great sailing ships of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a topic that has always […]
Professionals in the information technology field are bombarded with an incessant stream of innovations in hardware and software as well as practices, methods, and techniques. IT educators are among the first targets in the market and must decide if and when to adopt these innovations in their instruction of students and professional endeavors. The risks […]
Project Zero (an IBM incubator project) is an extension of the Eclipse open source Java programming IDE. It allows Java programmers to use a familiar development environment to create dynamic Web applications. While the project is supported by a “community,” much like open source efforts, the aim of Project Zero is commercial, with IBM counting […]
