Yes, you can hear them complaining a lot, very excitedly but also very happily. In my 25 years of teaching on the Manoa campus, I have never seen more student enthusiasm and pride for learning than in my course-integrated telecommunications classes. The written student comments reveal that many experience a changed self-image that no longer is tainted with depressive technophobia. I feel terrific when I read their expression of heartfelt and genuine appreciation for the course. In this new medium, students are challenged to find their own voices, to express their own thoughts and feelings in a public and scholarly context.
Students are in effect modeling the role of author, scholar, and scientist.
They are thus awakened and introduced to intellectual citizenship. With the expert and friendly technical advice of Webmaster Eric Hagen and Kevin Bogan , volunteer Internet coach, I was able for the first time, to create an instructional set-up that truly met my vision for a generational cyberspace learning community. With this approach now in place, I feel that the University of Hawaii is soaring ahead into the 'futures of education', and I encourage my colleagues to start experimenting with this new amazing educational technology. The age of the global virtual university is now upon us. This may all seem intimidating to uninitiated instructors, and hopelessly complicated or foreign.