Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Monday, May 27, 2002

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Teaching as Coaching - Helping Students Learn in a Technological World
Newton Smith, Western Carolina University

Technologies in Teaching and Learning
Colleges and universities today have to constantly scramble to keep up with the latest technology, where the advancements seem to be progressing geo-metrically in keeping with Moore’s law. Every college and university classroom, regardless of the discipline, has been profoundly affected. The Internet, computerization, and the development of information technologies have changed the way we think about knowledge, the way we think about teaching and learning, and perhaps even more important, the way we think about the relationship between economics and education. But the most dramatic change is not even at our doors yet: it is our future students, those elementary and middle-school kids who have always had computers in their lives and who will enter our classrooms with expectations that will dwarf the technological capabilities we have today....


 



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