[Air-l] Academic traditions

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

There is indeed a large movement re online education from many directions. A 
very interesting transformation, one that I try to follow closely.  /C

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>Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 12:21:23 -0400
>From: "Heidelberg, Chris" <Chris.Heidelberg at ssa.gov>  
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] Academic traditions  
>To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
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>Caroline:
>
>I concur! I am amazed at how many professors in the academic game do not
>understand the history and research behind this technology that was
>ironically created in large part and tested on the campuses of research
>institutions under federal and corporate grants. Your assessment is
>correct because the Ivy league schools (Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc),
>major private institutions (Duke, Johns Hopkins, Stanford), technology
>based schools (Cal-Poly,Georgia Tech, MIT)and many flagship universities
>(Cal-Berkeley, Illinois-Champaign,Maryland,Michigan,Ohio State and
>Texas-Austin) have already taken their offerings online (Rhodes, 2001)to
>match the challenge posed by the University of Phoenix and others.
>However, if one were to examine the federal defense based and medical
>grants received by these research institutions over the course of
>history since WWII, it is clear that the technology is not going away
>and new professors will have to get with the program and start looking
>at options like online publishing for environmental and financial
>reasons (Willinsky, 2006). The key will be the new methods created by
>and for learners by professors (Gee, 2005) such as video games.
>

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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820