The second annual Educause survey of current issues in campus information technology (IT) found that administrative systems challenges have escalated, the IT staffing crisis continues, distance education is in a steady state, and security management has the potential to experience explosive growth. Includes several tables of findings. (EV)

Presents a history of academic library instruction and the role of the librarian as educator. Topics include teaching in the library versus teaching in the classroom, the role of new information technologies, and criticism of academic librarians as classroom teachers. (Contains 102 references.) (LRW)

Discusses critical issues in information technology relevant to changes in education. Highlights include the need for new models for teaching and learning; integrating technology into the curriculum; student controlled learning; ethical use of technology; skills needed by students; and teacher needs. (LRW)

Presents examples of how universities will undergo technological change during the next 10-20 years and how that will affect faculty and student processes. New students will expect the ubiquitous availability of information technology in higher education. To maintain their core values, universities must adapt to the explosion in technological…

Describes a study that assessed faculty needs for incorporating Web-based instruction into the teacher education curriculum. Defined optimal performance, assessed actual practice, and identified the gap separating the two, in order to understand the technological and pedagogical requirements necessary to prepare education faculty for the paradigm…

Analyzes the processes whereby new technologies create opportunities for new markets and increase the need for value-added knowledge work. Suggests that in some sectors information and communications technologies will cause substantial displacement of workers in routine-based jobs. (Contains 46 references.) (SK)

An information technology certification program was evaluated by 1,671 systems engineers using job analysis that rated task importance. Professional librarians (n=527) rated importance of their tasks in similar fashion. Results of scatter diagrams provided evidence to enhance training effectiveness by focusing on job tasks significantly related to…

Discusses work of education futurists who see the possibility of online education providing the vehicle for a fundamental shift in the time, manner, and place for teaching and student learning. (PKP)

The worst enemies of advocates for the thoughtful and critically reflective adoption of information and communication technologies in education are the exaggerated claims made on behalf of computers and the Internet by other advocates. In "On the Internet," Hubert Dreyfus debunks many of these hyperbolic claims. Dreyfus properly cautions that…

Web portals--those online environments that encourage users to trade personal information for the opportunity to personalise the information space--are experiencing a considerable resurgence in popularity. Web portals are web sites that allow users to log on with a username and password and create their very own datastructure. This datastructure…

Who can be trusted on the Web? These days, with identity theft seemingly rampant, it's more important than ever to take all possible measures to protect privacy and to shield personal information from those who might not have good intentions. Today, librarians also have to take reasonable precautions to ensure that the online services that they…

Libraries are all about facilitating the intersection of people and information. According to this author, many librarians, however, still teach information literacy in the same way that their older colleagues taught bibliographic instruction. Teaching, despite technology and educational research, has still focused on the lecture. Librarians are…

The data defined in this article encompasses a range of topics, including data definitions, data management systems, infrastructure (both local and statewide), and the actual use of data to make decisions on either the administrative or instructional side. This emphasis on data has grown as technology has made the access and use of data easier.…

Successful organisations are knowledge-creating organisations, which produce, disseminate and embody new knowledge in new products and services. To this end, knowledge management enables organisations to improve efficiency and effectiveness mainly by decoding tacit knowledge into explicit information. This article focuses on the role of knowledge…

Over the last two years, it has become evident that a behavior pattern of misuse and abuse with respect to technology is beginning to emerge in society. This outbreak of technology misuse and abuse is documented in continual news coverage on TV, in newspapers and on the Internet--both inside and outside of schools. The endless list of misuse and…