The College of Staten Island, CUNY, seeks to improve the quality of our technological support of teaching and learning to a new level, one that better encompasses video media. One result of this effort is that CSI people are taking a leading role in a collaborative City University of New York endeavor to seek major funding for a comprehensive initiative addressing several issues and problems in utilizing technology effectively to support instruction and learning on the campus today.
Print remains, however, the dominant medium for classroom materials and assignments.
The campus must move decisively to develop capabilities to incorporate CM into our routines. The central focus in the highly visible shift toward the digital library has been the digitalization of print materials. Most college libraries, in particular, are not cognizant of the need to incorporate CM into their holdings and capabilities. Technology and Learning. The use of CM to provide alternative means of supporting more visually oriented learning styles needs to be explored and tested.