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

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
An Antidote for the Faculty-IT Divide - Luke Fernandez, Educause Quarterly
Good relations between IT and faculty can be promoted by understanding and addressing the cultural divides that exist between the administration and faculty. Do campus IT departments harm higher education? Wall Street Journal personal-technology columnist Walt Mossberg suggested as much during a speech he gave to high-level administrators at last June's Chronicle of Higher Education presidents' forum. Mossberg caught the attention of campus CIOs when, according to the Chronicle, he described large IT departments as "the most regressive and poisonous force in technology today."

 



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