The experiences of Seattle Pacific University as it changed from closed-shop to end-user computing are described. Once departments got over the initial shock of servicing the many nitty-gritty job requests formerly handled within computer services, they began to like the new system. (MLW)

The authors of a paper on educational restructuring and information technology in education respond to a review of their paper. The first section examines the need for information technology in schools, noting the widespread difficulties in implementation of such technologies. The second section considers some effective and realistic innovation…

Florida Atlantic University established a computer user services department separate from administrative computing, academic computing, and the management information system to provide user support independent of the specific computer application. The challenges encountered and their solutions are outlined, and recommendations are made for other…

Examines ethical and policy issues confronting higher education as a result of increasing use of new information and communication technologies for online teaching and the increasing globalization of higher education institutions and constituencies. The article questions the forced options of boosterism or rejectionism, along with other…

Discusses the development of various technologies up through the Internet, and notes that the means have been confused with the ends. Argues that educators and users should first focus on the learning material's content and on performance design that delivers useful results, before selecting the means of delivery (the Internet). (AEF)

Investigates pupils' abilities to interpret graphical information using a comparative study involving data-logging, conventional practical work, and a nonpractical equivalent. Concludes that the computer-based approach seemed to be particularly effective for younger and less-abled pupils. (Author/ASK)

Describes a survey of microcomputer use for adults with learning disability within The Home Farm Trust, a United Kingdom national organization for people with learning disability that was carried out in light of a planned organization-wide initiative to introduce modern information and communications technology to service users. (Author/LRW)

Describes a study of the effectiveness of introducing information and communications technology into the teaching of biology. The teacher of this college course conducted the research, administering questionnaires, interviews, and observations. The teacher's reflections on this educational research are presented. (SM)

An administrator from an elite research university describes his move to an online educational enterprise, which he considers the latest in a history of educational innovations over the past 20 years. Describes higher education as an agent of social change, as a purveyor of knowledge, and as an engine of growth and development, discussing the next…

Recently, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, used the World Wide Web to combat student apathy and encourage students to participate in elections. This article explains: the pros and cons of online voting; planning for online elections; preparing the ballots; specific techniques for conducting online elections; HTML forms and common gateway interface…

Discusses the place of new technology in education, examining what computer literacy amounts to in the age of the Internet. After noting practical problems with the vision of schools online, the paper considers apparently contrasting responses to new technology which emphasize respectively the reductionism of information technology and the…

Examines assumptions underpinning studies of gender and technology in education in Denmark, Australia, and England, briefly including Canada and the Netherlands. Discusses how gender and heterosexuality often become conflated in studies of gender and technology relations in the classroom. Explains that girls'"incompetence" in technology…

The Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) at Stevens Institute of Technology helps mathematics teachers to integrate and implement engaging and innovative collaborative lessons into their curriculum for illustrating complex mathematics concepts. CIESE has developed online projects that incorporate complex mathematics…

This paper describes a new ICT assessment tool that reduces multihandling of marks, comments and scores specifically where professional judgement is involved. Whereas previous ICT applications in most fields of education have focused on student learning, this tool focuses on the lecturer task of the assessment process. Unlike many ICT based…

In UK higher education a primary aim of business IT-related qualifications is the preparation of students for a relevant career. In this article we discuss an approach to teaching business IT ethics in a university context that prepares students for the ethical problems that they may meet in their future IT careers, and we demonstrate how this…