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Evoking associations with musty, forgotten archives and spiral notebooks in the field, anthropology doesn’t immediately come to mind as a discipline fully situated in the modern, wired world. On the contrary, anthropologists have been tackling the implications of technologies on ethnography with each new innovation, from handheld 16-millimeter film cameras and cassette tapes several decades […]
The failure of a highly anticipated, multiplayer game shows the academic limits of virtual worlds.Read the Full Article
Inspired by YouTube’s success, several new science video web sites have sprung up onlineRead the Full Article
Introduction: From Elite to Mass Higher Education A recent special edition of International Higher Education focused on the demographic trends associated with the emerging universal aspiration for access to higher education, and associated projections that global student numbers will almost double to reach 160 million by 2025 (Klemencic, M. & Fried, J 2007). In a […]
Through surveys, focus groups and interviews, this study examines technology adoption at a large Canadian university ten years after setting a strategic plan, explores the interplay between instructors’ concepts of teaching and use of technology, and searches for the best solutions to help them use technology more effectively. Results showed that whilst 90% of respondents […]
A survey explored scholars’ attitudes about educational technology environments in the humanitiesRead the Full Article
Morning Edition, November 29, 2007 · To see the future of higher education, look no further than your computer screen. Online education is growing at many times the rate of higher education overall, according to a new survey.Read the Full Article
Morning Edition, November 29, 2007 · To see the future of higher education, look no further than your computer screen. Online education is growing at many times the rate of higher education overall, according to a new survey.Read the Full Article
NACOL sheds light on virtual schooling’s phenomenal growth … and need for regulationRead the Full Article