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12/06

NOTES FROM THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY FORUM:
STRATEGIES FOR CAMPUS LEADERSHIP
A synthesis of four presentations from the Forum that can be considered relevant to online teaching and learning in higher education.

ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION: IS TECHNOLOGY THE SOLUTION OR THE PROBLEM?
Arthur Levine, president, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, led this one-and-a-half-hour roundtable discussion that had a group of more than 100 educators break up into 12 teams to talk about the pros and cons of online teaching and learning in higher education and their relationship to access. MORE

eLEARNING: BOON OR BUST
The description of this presentation spelled it out clearly: "Will eLearning revolutionize higher education as we know it? And, if so, in what ways? Or has eLearning’s promise been vastly overrated? Two experts face off." MORE

THE STATE OF THE NATION'S CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
There were many golden nuggets of information, bold statements, and calls to action made in a keynote session on cyberinfrastructure (CI) presented by Arden Bement, director of the National Science Foundation. MORE

THE STATE OF ONLINE ARCHIVES AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR ACADEME
Three speakers were featured in this interactive panel: Daniel Greenstein, associate vice provost for scholarly information, California Digital Library, University of California; Adam M. Smith, group business product manager, Google Book Search and Google Scholar; and Danielle Tiedt, general manager, Windows Live Premium Search, Microsoft. MORE

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