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

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Taming the Digital Beast - Andy Patrizio, Campus Technology
Is your digital institutional repository out of control? It’s time to step back and look at contribution, access, rights, storage, and functionality—issues you don’t want to monkey with. No one will dispute that academic institutions excel at generating and collecting knowledge and information, but when it comes to incorporating modern technologies, students have been farther ahead of the curve than their institutions. Too many schools are still mired in paper admissions processes, for instance, while their students are actively trading MP3 files across the school’s Internet connection.

 



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