Presents a theoretical framework for communities of practice and provides alternative perspectives on information technology supports for communities of practice, based on the literature and ethnographic case studies of communities of practice in two organizations. Examines how people share and construct their knowledge and how they use…

Describes the University of Kansas' information technology (IT) policy development process as a model for other institutions' IT policy development. The policy involves seven dimensions: access, freedom of expression, privacy, intellectual property, security, effective use of information resources, and records management. (EV)

Explaining that tight finances are forcing colleges to rethink spending on information technology, offers 10 strategies to help minimize costs. (EV)

This second article in a series of four that explores the role of information technology in education focuses on our current view of information technology and argues for a new structure for using technology in education. Highlights include a framework for systemic change; and connectivity of physical settings, people, and knowledge development.…

Explains how integrating information technology can extend the capabilities of school security systems far beyond traditional card access. Use of biometric identification technologies and digitized event recording are explored. (GR)

Describes how one professor's classroom assignment to get a letter published in the New York Times' (and thus receive an automatic A in the class), took an unexpected turn, prompting the professor to not only re-evaluate the assignment but also to ponder the power of technology and how it can be used to spin the press. (SM)

Explains why the data warehouse is important to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology community, describing its basic functions and technical design points; sharing some non-technical aspects of the school's data warehouse implementation that have proved to be important; examining the importance of proper training in a successful warehouse…

Describes stages of knowledge management and discusses how librarians can bridge the gap with the business world in order to attribute the needed skills to librarianship and information science. Topics include information technology; organizational culture and learning organizations; content management and taxonomies; and software selection. (LRW)

This study compared the effects of two information presentation formats on learning to solve problems in electrical circuits. In one condition, the split-source format, information relating to procedural aspects of the functioning of an electrical circuit was not integrated in a circuit diagram, while information in the integrated format condition…

Addresses three separate initiatives South Yorkshire Further Education Consortium SYFEC e-skills4industry - a partnership between Lewisham College and Deloitte and Cascade and information and communication technology ICT training for schools. The initiatives, however, share two important characteristics. First, they are all initiatives which have…

The higher education community has long been a vocal proponent of bringing advanced networking to every home and office as well as to all locations on campus. A combination of old and new technologies promises to extend the reach and the speed of the Internet. The long-awaited transformation to a networked society is under way and gaining momentum.

This article is concerned with the medium-term effects on management structures and styles following a period in the disciplinary regime of Special Measures, a regime of intensive inspection applied to a school which is deemed as "failing". In it I discuss the techniques used by the management of one school to continue the school's improvement…

Small libraries don't have the resources to adopt every new technology. It is important that small libraries operate strategically, adopting only those technologies that are the most beneficial to their patrons.

In this paper the concepts of technology, instructional technology, and information technology are presented. The integration of instructional technology, and information technology is established and its implications for electronic learning systems design are discussed. One can say that: information and instructional designers can design…

One of the most dramatic examples of how invaluable a resource technology can be occurred immediately after Sept. 11, 2001. What is not as well known is how Avi Duvdevani, who was New York City's acting commissioner for the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications at the time of the attacks, his team, and numerous businesses and…