The students are working together, and it's very much a collaborative environment. The course is much, much richer because of the technology. Bob Ribando, Mechanical Engineering . I have lost a good deal of my sense of embattled isolation, having found in both staff and colleagues a small community of very capable people who are committed to teaching. Alan Howard, American Studies .
Computers are great equalizers.
Design students suffer from computer technophobia. Civil engineers are terrified of drawing. From a pedagogic standpoint, the computer takes a shared fear and offers an instructor a common tool to use in building confidence. And no discipline has an advantage over another. Kathy Poole, Landscape Architecture .