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Mainstreaming the Digital Revolution
Author(s) -
Arnold Michael
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2273.00112
Subject(s) - process (computing) , perspective (graphical) , rank (graph theory) , currency , point (geometry) , mainstreaming , higher education , sociology , information and communications technology , public relations , political science , computer science , pedagogy , economics , law , special education , geometry , mathematics , combinatorics , artificial intelligence , monetary economics , operating system
The University of Melbourne, Australia, is in the process of defining its profile in respect of teaching and learning and high‐technology, and is in the process of implementing a decision to employ sophisticated communications and information technologies in what will remain a campus‐based setting. Many other Universities are of course engaged in the same process. The following paper points out the significant steps taken to mediate this change, and from the perspective of a curious ‘rank and file’ academic, provides a commentary and critique of the measures taken. Although the University of Melbourne is the case in point, the issues raised will have a currency in many University settings.