Electronic access now allows a search for key literature through many libraries to be completed in less time than it takes to commute to a single library. Good Practice Communicates High Expectations. Technology provides ways to enact high standards. Assignments can be widely distributed for review and peer evaluation. In some courses, written assignments are peer evaluated by students taking the same course at another university.
Broad evaluation strengthens the peer review process.
Rationalizing poor performance by blaming one professor is difficult under such conditions. Shared learning challenges help develop high level cognitive skills and an ability to distinguish between excellent and average work. Good Practice Respects Diverse Ways of Learning. There are many roads to learning, and also many ways to build roads with technology. At the cutting edge are professors like Curt Carver of West Point, who use technology to allow students to assess their own learning styles and then have the content material delivered from a server customized to each individual's preferred learning style.