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On the Horizon: September-October Issue
Go to the September/October issue of On the Horizon, "a print and Web-based
periodical that focuses on signals of change on the
horizon that can affect educational organizations," at http://horizon.unc.edu/horizon/.
In this issue:
- Space: The Final Frontier
Donald M. Norris, President, Strategic Initiatives, Inc, surveys several campuses
experimenting with multifunctional and fused-use facilities, as well as some urban
centers recreating our concepts of museums, zoos, and public areas. For
anyone interested in the physical ramifications of technology, this article tells
where to look for new innovations.
- Information Technology in Higher Education: The "Global Academic Village"
and Intellectual Standardization
Phil Agre, Department of Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles,
discusses a trend toward "ontological standardization": organizations now have
to communicate with each other using the same systems, so they seek to use the
same models in reinventing themselves. For example, schools have to standardize
their use of terms like "course" and "teacher" for prospective students making
global comparisons. Agre observes that such standardization can pose threats
to the uniqueness possessed by many educational institutions and reminds educators
to preserve their schools' identities as they incorporate new systems.
- Electronic Networking in the Future: An Interview with Judith V. Boettcher,
Part II
Judith V. Boettcher is the Executive Director of the Corporation for Research
and Education Networking. Rather than using the same old classroom techniques
with new technology, she calls for educators to develop approaches specifically
for the Web ... and tells us how.
- On the Tenure of University Presidents
Arthur Padilla and Sujit Ghosh, College of Management, North Carolina State University
Educators concerned about the balance of stability and innovation in their institutions
will want to consider this analysis of the factors affecting the turnover at the
top.
- Democracy and the Academy
Laurence R. Marcus, Professor in Educational Leadership, Rowan University, believes
educational politics should emphasize the balance between
accountability and autonomy that must be maintained for debates over the democratization
of the academy to be fairly adjudged.
theNode.org
Here is another site that a member might like to review and report on for the
benefit of WAOE colleagues. Web
Editor
"The Node is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of its new service, theNode.org,
on 18 October 1999. This is an international community of instructors,
trainers, designers and administrators with a professional interest in teaching
with technology. Services will support users in developing and sustaining
effective education and training practices and in exploring new ways to use
technologies to support their learning objectives.
"Through theNode.org, we will continue to develop our freely-available resources
to help you choose, use and evaluate learning technologies. We will add
extensive new resources for members to assist them directly in teaching and
training through technology."
For more information, the prospectus at <http://thenode.org/membership/prospectus.html>.
Information on how to join theNode.org is available at
http://thenode.org/membership/.