Emerging Technologies and Higher Education
David Noah

The digital revolution is not over.

Blogs, Facebook, Second Life, YouTube, iTunesU—these new technologies and their uses are changing our culture and changing how we think about teaching and learning. The web, which has become so essential that we can scarcely imagine professional life without it, is changing from a place to get content to a platform for creating it.

The academic community has done a good job of adopting the web as a medium for educational ends. But web as platform (Web 2.0) is affecting us in ways that the educational system is neither recognizing nor embracing. If higher education is to remain relevant it will have to acknowledge that the intellectual and cultural landscape is evolving, and that universities must evolve with it. How can we best understand and respond to these changes? This FLC will explore contemporary educational technologies and how we can make use of them.

The three questions that follow are three roads into this new landscape, and are offered as suggestions more than as a fixed agenda.
What do students expect?
What new tools are available to us, and how can we use them in higher education?
How must universities change to accommodate the changing culture?

Dr. David Noah, Coordinator of Emerging Technologies at the Center for Teaching & Learning, will be the facilitator for this community.

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