Below is a description of the May issue of The Technology Source, a free
refereed Web periodical at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS. Please forward this
announcement to colleagues who are interested in using information
technology tools more effectively in educational organizations.

As always, we seek illuminating articles that will assist educators as
they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools in
teaching and in managing educational organizations. Please review our call
for manuscripts at http://horizon.unc.edu/TS/call.asp

Jim
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James L. Morrison                          [log in to unmask]
Professor of Educational Leadership        CB 3500 Peabody Hall
Editor, On the Horizon                     UNC-Chapel Hill
http://horizon.unc.edu/horizon             Chapel Hill,NC  27599-3500
Editor, The Technology Source              Phone: 919 962-2517
http://horizon.unc.edu/TS                  Fax: 919 962-1693

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This month's Vision article, an interview with Gary Staunch, highlights
the power of Web-enabled learning to revolutionize the world of
traditional education. As the Director of Education for North America at
Compaq Computer Corporation, Staunch oversees the development of
technology tools and services that extend learning outside the classroom,
provide students with real-time content, and enable faculty to become
facilitators-rather than mere transmitters-of knowledge. Educators "have
no choice but to make technology an integrated tool in the learning
process," Staunch contends. In this article, he explains how Compaq is
ready to help them do just that.

In this month's Critical Reading, Gary Brown and Mary Wack cast a
discerning eye on the recent report on distance education titled "What's
the Difference?", published by the Institute for Higher Education Policy
and commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers and the National
Education Association. Brown and Wack contend that the authors, Ronald
Phipps and James Merisotis, who focused on a review of the research on
distance learning since 1990, were often overly simplistic, somewhat
naive, and even contradictory in their analysis of this research.

In this month's Commentary section, Joe Bocchi, Virginia Watson, and
Frances Weyand acknowledge the potential of technology-enhanced learning
(TEL) to impact learning. Unfortunately, they also report that TEL still
is used infrequently in industry and higher education. Under a 12-month
contract, Bocchi and his colleagues examined why technology often remains
an "add-on" to instructor-led training and how industry and higher
education might cooperate to better benefit from the use of TEL. Findings
from the authors' first seven months of research are presented here.

Anyone who has viewed George Mason University's new Web site cannot help
but be impressed by its multi-navigational structure. In this month's Case
Study, Allyn Summa and Cara Determan, two members of the team that
revamped the site in 1998, reflect on the challenges of designing a page
that is effortlessly navigable, easily updateable-and engagingly stylish.

Section Editor Ruth Sabean interviews Richard N. Katz, a Vice President of
EDUCAUSE, in this month's Faculty and Staff Development article. In July
1998, when members of Educom and CAUSE voted to consolidate the two
organizations' operations, they also vowed to remain devoted to the
interests of their individual constituents. Ten months later, Katz talks
about some of EDUCAUSE's top goals: providing support for institutions
that have insufficient resources for technological development, engaging
the development interests of young IT professionals in higher education,
and developing a tapestry of relationships with other content experts and
providers.

The Site of the Month for May is the Education Development Center.
Headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, EDC is a non-profit organization
that designs classroom curricula and materials for a variety of
disciplines, including education, health, technology, sociology, and
mathematics. EDC offers academicians access to such resources as
professional workshops, education journals, teaching materials, and
technology implementation tools. Check out EDC's Mathscape Center, its
Leadership and the New Technologies project, or any one of its other
resources that are available to educators at all scholastic levels.







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