The following paper was tooooooo long for me to read.
  But, I thought that some of you academics might be interested
  in it.


Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 13:58:15 -0400
From: Laurell Ritchie <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: WTO and Education (USA Wingspread Conference)


Using Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity 
Using Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity 
Using Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity 

http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keydocs/massy.html

                                     By 
                    William F. Massy and Robert Zemsky

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We begin with a pair of observations.

First, the demand for IT-based teaching and learning programs will grow

Second, IT will change teaching and learning profoundly, no matter what the
response of traditional higher education institutions.


IT'S POTENTIAL 

  1.IT offers economies of scale: After a (sometimes large) front- end
    investment, the cost of usage per incremental student is apt to be
    low. Moreover, access to very large amounts of information can be
    obtained at low incremental cost.

  2.IT offers mass customization: Technology allows faculty to accommodate
    individual differences in student goals, learning styles, and
    abilities, while providing improved convenience for both students and
    faculty on an "any time, any place" basis.

These propositions add up to a "modern industrial revolution."

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NOTES

1. Robert Zemsky and William F. Massy, "Expanding Perimeters, Melting
Cores, and Sticky Functions: Towards and Understanding of Current
Predicaments," forthcoming in Change.

2. Massy and Wilger, "Improving Productivity: What Faculty Think About
It--And Its Effect on Quality," Change 27, no. 4 (July/August 1995): 10-20.

3. William F. Massy, Andrea K. Wilger, and Carol Colbeck, "Overcoming
`Hollowed' Collegiality," Change 26, no. 4 (July/August 1994), 10- 20.

4. "The Lattice and the Ratchet," Policy Perspectives 2, no. 4 (June 1990),
the Pew Higher Education Research Program; Robert Zemsky and William F.
Massy, "Cost Containment: Committing to a New Economic Reality," Change 22,
no. 6 (November/December 1990): 16-22; William F. Massy and
Andrea K. Wilger, "Productivity in Postsecondary Education, A New
Approach," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 14, 4 (1992): 361-76.

5. William F. Massy and Robert Zemsky, "Notes: Educom Conference on
Academic Productivity, Wingspread, June 6-8, 1995," prepared for the
conference.

6. "Twice Imagined," Policy Perspectives 6, no. 1 (April 1995), the Pew
Higher Education Research Program. 

7. Zemsky and Massy, op cit.


William F. Massy is professor emeritus of education and business
administration at Stanford University and director of the Stanford
Institute for Higher Education Research. 

Robert Zemsky is professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania
and director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education. 

This is the first in a series of white papers on the topic of academic
productivity produced by EducomÕs National Learning Infrastructure
Initiative (NLII). More information about NLII can be obtained by
contacting Educom or by sending electronic mail to [log in to unmask] 




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