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Selingo, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
In the process of trying to preserve Internet history by archiving it, a company has developed a powerful Internet search engine that provides information on Web site usage patterns, which can act as a relatively objective source of information about information sources and can link sources that a researcher might otherwise miss. However, issues…
Descriptors: Archives, Computer Software, Higher Education, Information Technology
McCollum, Kelly – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
A fledgling industry of software developers, academic technologists, and instructors is emerging to help college faculty put courses on line without having to learn World Wide Web page coding. A variety of design services is available. Often, institutions make recommendations for choosing Web-course tools. Software focuses on general course…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Organization, Curriculum Development
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Striving to streamline student services and improve electronic communication, colleges and universities are signing on with companies that offer sophisticated World Wide Web sites through which students can accomplish basic administrative functions and receive information. The sites are often free of charge but also feature advertising messages…
Descriptors: Advertising, Ancillary School Services, College Administration, Computer Mediated Communication
Guernsey, Lisa – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
Increasingly, World Wide Web sites are offering college-bound students searchable catalogs and online admissions applications, and software company sites are selling high-tech recruiting tools to college admissions offices. College admissions offices are overwhelmed with the new options, and worried about how the trend may change the admissions…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Admission, College Bound Students, College Choice
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
Some faculty feel that, as tasks become "unbundled," technology may take over instructional duties that define professor's jobs, with courses designed outside the institution, lectures replaced by Web sites, tests created and administered by outside organizations. Others feel that computers foster more interactive and lively learning environments…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Distance Education
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1998
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is aggressively pursuing a plan to change the presentation and dissemination of student research by requiring students to submit theses and dissertations in digital form and creating a database on the World Wide Web that provides free, instantaneous access to graduate students' research. Some…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change Strategies, Computer Uses in Education, Degree Requirements
