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Technology-Enhanced
Teaching and Learning
The rapid adoption of new teaching
technologies in universities has hap-
pened concomitantly with an empha-
sis in education circles on active as op-
posed to passive learning. Fortunately,
the two trends reinforce each other;
new technology-based approaches to
education can be used to encourage
Technology is a double-edged
sword. Schools that embrace tech-
nology and use it to improve the edu-
cational process are in a much bet-
ter position than those that do not.
Success requires the commitment of
the administration, faculty, staff and
students and it requires substantial
resources invested in the technology.
Schools that lack the will and the re-
sources are the ones most likely to
fail. Students are going to expect the
variety, flexibility, and richness that
learning technologies bring to their
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programs. The most vulnerable institutions are small, private colleges with
low enrollments, heavy reliance on tuition income, and that are well known
only within a 200-hundred-mile radius
of their campus. They are unlikely to
be able to afford to invest in the people and skills to infuse their programs
with technology-enhanced teaching
and learning.
Viewpoint
Technology and
the Failure of
the University
Considering the double-edged sword of learning
technologies in various academic settings.
DOI: 10.1145/3163910
