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Sunday, February 17, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=6080 The Beauty of Low Threshold Applications Steven W. Gilbert There is a new imperative for many colleges and universities to engage "almost all" of the faculty in improving teaching and learning with information technology. The strategies I described in a previous Syllabus column can help, especially if they include the development of a collection of low threshold applications, or "LTAs." Recent experience suggests that a new, larger group of mainstream faculty members is more likely to be receptive to what they perceive as only a modest change in their identity, role, or workload that might be imposed by new teaching and learning applications. They tend to resist workshops and risks associated with the most obviously innovative educational uses of information technology. They also resent—rightfully—the implication that their work of past years or decades has been inadequate or incompetent....
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