Associate Professor Dr. M. Murat Erguvan has 28 years of teaching and administrative experience in various countries and positions such as programme coordinator, dean, vice rector for education, research and/or external affairs. He has been with the International Black Sea University (IBSU), in Tbilisi, Georgia, a country located at the…

The use of management information systems (MIS) in higher education is discussed. It is suggested that the value of MIS in higher education is its potential utility in effective political position-building rather than conventional problem-solving. (BH)

The need to develop a comprehensive network to pull together all existing technologies into a comprehensive knowledge base is promoted. (MP)

Strategic planning for information systems and descriptions of the products needed to purvey an institution's information resources as though they were delivered from a single, integrated system are featured, emphasizing strategy and tactics. Various accepted premises for the current state of higher education information systems are set forth.…

The seven short papers in this collection were developed to support discussions during the 1979 White House Conference on Library and Information Services. The first paper, by Donald P. Ely, discusses information and education in a multimedia world. Other papers discuss technology and information transfer in education (Blanche Woolls); teaching…

Presents profiles of two leaders in the field of educational media and technology: Carolyn Guss and Mendel Sherman, both retired professors from Indiana University's program in Information Systems Technology. (KRN)

Discusses innovative recent uses of CD ROM "multimedia books" and their implications for the "reading" experience. (SR)

Districts must hire "highly qualified teachers" to implement "research-based best practices" using "data-driven decisions" to positively impact student achievement. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 has provided educators a whole new set of catch phrases. As states, districts, and educators work to define…

This letter to the editor favorably comments on an article by Jerry Willis and Kristen Wright, "A General Set of Procedures for Constructivist Instructional Design: The New R2D2 Model" ("Educational Technology, March-April 2000). The writer notes that though the article's purpose is to describe an alternative to the conventional ISD model, it also…

Discusses possibilities and dangers involved with using hypertext for learning; explains how it is similar to and different from other forms of information generation, organization, storage, and retrieval; examines its influence on the information it organizes; and explores problematic issues (including the potential for bias and distortion within…

The employment of administrative tools for effective management is evaluated in this article. Using an administrative tool like a Palm[R] handheld computer and appropriate software can make the difference. For anyone running a single school or an entire district, managing data is the key to maintaining an efficient organization. Many…

This analysis suggests that the present low level of use of technology in education results from fundamental incompatibilities between the educational system in the United States and most of the technology systems intended to perform educational functions. Economics alone will not bring an educational productivity revolution. (MP)

Argues that implementation of the new information technologies in education will create numerous direct and indirect consequences for society, and discusses likely outcomes regardless of the method of implementation used (including the necessity for a change to a new teaching/learning model), as well as implications highly dependent on…

To provide medical students in community-based clinical settings with access to the same range of educational resources (medical literature, student colleagues, feedback, faculty) available at the academic medical center, this paper proposes that advancing information technology be applied to create a "virtual clinical campus" in the community…

Higher education must revise traditional programs, face the reality of dropping enrollments, fiscal crises, changing educational and social values, different labor and time schedules, rapidly changing knowledge and excessively speedy developments in technology, then make plans for the best, most effective and beneficial use of technology in…