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January 2006
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The Changing Role of Instructors
By Thomas Warger
Most commentary on the changing role of faculty in the information age focuses on the shift from instructors as knowledge providers to learning facilitators. But when the “sage on the stage” becomes the “guide on the side,” one thing does not change: it is still one professor with the class. The mode of instruction is importantly different—technology gives students greatly expanded access to information that in the past the instructor found, filtered, and delivered—but the one-to-many relationship still exists. And while the lecture is far from dead, students now acquire knowledge in an ever-widening array of methods devised by faculty. Impetus for this change in pedagogy was originally technological, but it has also become a sociological phenomenon: the roles of teacher and student have changed
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Bellsouth Foundation Launches E-Learning Initiative; Microsoft and Academci Supercomputing
ERP Collaboration: A Model of Growing Importance
By Linda Fleit
As ERPs become increasingly expensive and complex, more institutions are looking at the possibility of sharing the challenges with others. One consortium, the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (WAICU), is doing just that. The first wave involves three of the 20 WAICU schools—Ripon College, Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, and Lakeland College in Sheboygan, and is far enough along in the implementation of the Jenzabar EX system to be seen as a model for successful collaboration. The Edutech Report interviewed Dr. Rolf Wegenke, president of WAICU, to find out more.
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