There is no substitute for time on task. Faculty were somewhat divided on their response to this question. Putting examples of high quality student work on web sites and encouraging students over e-mail to be ready for exams and quizzes are two ways faculty communicate high expectations to students. Some faculty said that students seemed to produce better-quality products when they know they'll be published for a potentially large audience on the Web. 7. There are many roads to learning.
People bring different talents and styles of learning to college.
Brilliant students in the seminar room may be all thumbs in the lab or art studio. However, others felt is was easier to detect those difficulties face to face rather than via technology. To the extent that this lever helps students become better learners, we as an educational community will want to support it. But, we need to know more about which technologies promote which learning goals, so that faculty can make good choices about which technologies and how much they introduce into the curriculum. To what extent does the computer technology that you are using . . .