Advancing Campus Efficiencies: A Companion for Campus Leaders in the Digital EraISBN: 978-1-933371-13-9
Hardcover
238 pages
October 2006, Jossey-Bass
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The book envisions a dramatically different way of delivering courses; disaggregating and reassigning teaching functions; and increasing differentiation, collaboration, and innovation—all enabled by the appropriate use of information technologies. Drawing on the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunication's (WCET) more than 15 years of work on the effective use of technology to increase quality and efficiency in higher education, the book offers valuable insight on
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Whether for-profit institutions enjoy a competitive advantage over public and independent institutions
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The most critical issues facing higher education today, and possible solutions
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Strategies for managing the cost of integrating information technologies into teaching and Learning
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How to lead campus transformation using communication technologies
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Connecting students and faculty through distance learning and telecommunication systems
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The role of openness in the future of higher education
Offering new ideas on how to deploy emerging information and communication technologies, Advancing Campus Efficiencies will be a companion—both comfort and guide—for educators undertaking the work of inspired leadership that will be required to achieve the new design of higher education.