The Montana University System Strategic Plan is the primary planning document of the Board of Regents. The Plan sets forth an agenda for higher education in Montana by delineating the strategic directions, goals, and objectives that guide the Montana University System (MUS). It is comprised of three primary goals that contain a series of sub-goal…

The Montana University System Strategic Plan is the primary planning document of the Board of Regents. The Plan sets forth an agenda for higher education in Montana by delineating the strategic directions, goals, and objectives that guide the Montana University System (MUS). It is comprised of three primary goals that contain a series of sub-goal…

East Carolina University recently hosted the first Virtual Worlds in Education Conference, a meeting held entirely in Second Life. The conference provided 135 faculty and administrators from around the world the ability to communicate and share their experiences on teaching, learning, and technology support in an online, multi-user virtual…

Introduces a three-part feature examining the potential of the Internet to reshape higher education, commenting on four key drivers of change that have taken on new meaning for campuses as Internet use has accelerated: a renewed focus on learning and learners, the movement of technology from the back office to the front office, the search for new…

The editor of "The Wired Tower: Perspectives on the Impact of the Internet on Higher Education" suggests that institutions use the Internet to foster long-term relationships with learners, focus on mini-transformations, find their Internet niche, and seek institutional competitiveness. (EV)

In an excerpt from "The Wired Tower," a college president offers his perspective on the revolutionary and evolutionary changes that higher education will experience as a result of information technology and warns against a rush into the digital economy that could destroy higher education's reason for being. (EV)

Computer technology has been harnessed for education in UK universities ever since the first computers for research were installed at 10 selected sites in 1957. Subsequently, real costs have fallen dramatically. Processing power has increased; network and communications infrastructure has proliferated, and information has become unimaginably…

Confusion over the role to be played by technology in college instruction is common, with administration sometimes in opposition to faculty over transformation of courses into courseware and the action of teaching into commercially viable property. The major proponents of such a transformation include vendors of network hardware, software, and…

This paper examines the external and local responses that are forcing university programs in educational administration to consider distance education, as well as the responses of one particular program, the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations at Illinois State University (ISU). Specifically addressed are external pressures…

Some of the opportunities created by e-business, or electronic commerce, for college teaching and administration are explored, including distributed learning, new forms of payment, new learning materials, academic support tools, administrative support, and new forms of publishing. E-business initiatives for colleges and universities are suggested.…

Summarizes presentations at the 21st Century Executive Symposium (Washington, DC, February 13-15, 2000) of 150 higher education senior business officers. Presentations focused on such topics as e-commerce, private sector competition in distance education and lifelong learning, the emerging networked technology grid, higher education as an…

Increasingly, students enrolled in regular college classes are taking online courses for convenience. Offering students these options raises administrative issues, including how to balance faculty teaching loads and pay for both forms of instruction. Critics say students choosing online courses are not getting the education they pay for, and…

Universities are quickly moving from brick and mortar toward online classroom settings. The online setting provides students with increased accessibility and flexibility to attend classes they would normally be unable to attend. Unfortunately, for those students who never attend classes on campus, many campus resources are not accessible. Students…

Networking technologies offer a better learning environment for college students while allowing cost reductions. Advances in networking can alter limitations of time and space, allowing learning in the same time/same space (traditional class meetings), same time/different place, different time/same place, and different time/different place.…

This paper presents findings from two studies on the use of computer mediated communication (CMC) in distance learning courses in higher education administration. The first study compared differences between students (n=17) in a face-to-face (F2F) classroom and students (n=7) taking the same course using CMC. It analyzed differences in interaction…