The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education
"The book offers brief, insightful analyses of several features of the new digital shoreline: ways that digital technology and social media are changing the character of higher education teaching; key characteristics of today's students (digital natives); a catalogue of devices, platforms, programs, and applications with relevance for teaching; ways that digital natives learn; and guidelines for next steps to take on the way toward basic proficiency in teaching for the digital age. McHaney's book can serve as a useful guide to digital immigrant faculty who seek to obtain a green card in the digital age. It might also prove useful for doctoral students preparing for a career teaching in higher education.""Regardless of whether higher education institutions want to face it or not, the wave of millennials is arriving at their footstep with backgrounds and needs very different compared to any other generation that have entered college. McHaney helps academic advisors navigate their way towards finding the best ways to reach and support this new student population. Readers do not need to have a high level of knowledge about Web 2.0 and its history. The author explains these aspects in the beginning sections ofThe New Digital Shorelinein a manner that is straightforward and easy to understand. Once a solid understanding about the latest advances in technology has been established, McHaney then describes how these evolutions have shaped the expectations and actions of millennial students... Academic advisors who are lost as to where to begin to incorporate technology into their offices will findThe New Digital Shorelinevaluable.""This book is written in a very direct, conversational style that is easy to read and explains why we need to rethink how we approach teaching and learning in the light of technology and learner change and how we might do that... This is an excellent book for those of you who have just arrived at the shoreline and are peering out at the horizon with trepidation.  It should be given to colleagues who need to be persuaded to join those of you paddling out there and can be used when considering curriculum review or assessment alternatives.""The New Digital Shorelineis a fascinating overview of where education is heading. Parents, teachers, and everyone else involved in learning would be well-advised to read this book.""This book is phenomenal. I mean, easy read, fantastic structure and meaningful reflections.""The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Educationoffers a fine survey of the complex effects of Web 2.0 on higher education, documenting forces that educators need to know about to modify interactions with students and peers. From understanding how the population of the new Web is different with different expectations to understanding the new mind-set of Web 2.0, this is packed with details supporting a reinvention of higher education to meet these new perspectives - a support which goes beyond just adding new technology to the learning mix. Higher education collections must have this new approach!""Explores such topics as social media and learning, engaging the "tech savvy millennial" in the classroom, and the impact of e-readerse and tablet computers on the future of the textbook."“A masterly and authoritative presentation of the topography of the new digital shoreline that will be invaluable to his fellow faculty.Roger McHaney’s concern in this book is primarily for the future of the public universities that constitute the bedrock of US higher education. He has provided us with a lively yet scholarly guide to the changes that these institutions must make if they are to attract today’s tech-savvy millennials to their campuses and offer them engaging programs. There is no time to waste. As he recalls, we tend to overestimate the importance of new trends in the short term while underestimating their longer-term impact. It is already later than we think."