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

Saturday, November 25, 2006
Info overload distracts professors from reading - Sarah Schmidt, The Ottawa Citizen
Pointing to the time-compressed "wired-to-the-world campus," the majority of university professors report they skim sources for useful bits of information and don't read as deeply and reflectively as they once did. The survey of faculty from across the country, conducted by Carleton University's Heather Menzies and York University's Janice Newson, suggests about the same number -- two-thirds -- also aren't reading as thoughtfully as they would like.

 



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