Planning For Instructional Technology: What You Thought You Knew Could Lead You Astray

Abstract

Instructional technology (IT) is transforming collegiate teaching and learning. While IT is wondrously exciting, it is also threatening to teaching traditions that have evolved over centuries. Peter Drucker captured our fears with his recent pronouncement that in 30 years colleges and universities, as we know them today, will be “relics.” At the least, IT commands our urgent attention as we prepare for a future that we know will be dramatically different.

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Carol Frances

This article was prepared as part of a special study of the costs of instructional technology sponsored by the New Jersey Institute for Collegiate Teaching and Learning. Carol Frances is director of the study. She is a Visiting Scholar at Seton Hall University and at Claremont Graduate University, and a Senior Associate of Kaludis Consulting Group. Richard Pumerantz, Vice President of Development and Major Gifts at Western University of Health Sciences, generated detailed cost data. James Caplan designed a new survey of student perceptions of education programs and analyzed the results while working at the Behavioral Science Research Corporation in Coral Gables, Florida.