The SAC conference provided an opportunity to interact with other professionals involved in delivering IT services to faculty and students from throughout the country. Below are a few of my notes and some good URLs. Sir John Daniel identified 6 presuppositions for the future of higher education. Technology will change the vary nature of higher education. New technology will always be coming and will have an impact on teaching and learning.
Technology being used today lacks institutional aims.
New aims should be to cut costs, leverage learning, and transform thinking. A new model for learning systems where students are more active. New institutional strategies for dealing with technology on a grand scale. He expounded on each of these points with focus on how the Open University is building on a foundation of distance learning to incorporate new technology and teaching techniques. I have ordered two copies of Sir John Daniel s book, which will have much of this information.