This presentation will explore this vision and illustrate how IMS can make it a reality. Several significant trends in technology and education are encouraging colleges and universities to transform their academic mission significantly in the next decade. The primary objective of the transformation will be to deliver high quality academic content efficiently with a strong emphasis on a meaningful and collaborative student experience. Achieving this objective will maintain higher education's ability to certify learning and retain its traditional role in western society. Join us in thinking about these questions about where we are today and where we might be tomorrow in teaching and learning in higher education.
Students never learn from technology.
They learn from competent instructors who have been trained to communicate with the technology. These new communication technologies in the form of video, audio, WWW, Internet, computer conferencing, and print are merging rapidly. They will allow students to learn at any time, in any location, at their own pace, and with worldwide resources available on demand. New roles and communication skills for instructors are implicit with the use of these technologies. Faculty training in the use of the new technologies and teaching skills will separate successful college programs from those that will ultimately fail.