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Hot Topics in Technology
  • Oregon State University
  • Elizabeth Dittman
  • Jennifer Meitl
  • Tristen Shay

2
Technology in Higher Education
  • Top 5 Issues
  • Online Learning
  • Institutional Spam
  • Wireless Technology
  • Blogs
  • Social Communities

3
Online Learning Defined
  • An umbrella term used to describe any education
    or training that occurs online (Cyber Media
    Creations, 2006).
  • Consists of
  • Learning community technologies
  • Any online forum allowing the professor and
    students to post and access information most
    generally with a user name and password (e.g.
    Blackboard, Moodle, Slashdot)
  • Podcasts
  • An audio file accessible through the internet to
    be played on select portable media devices (e.g.
    MP-3 player)
  • Webinars
  • An interactive seminar broadcast via the internet

4
Online Learning Why?
  • Gaining prevalence on college campuses across the
    nation
  • Allows for global exchange of information
  • Raises issues of access for both students and
    administrators
  • Brings challenges to student affairs
    professionals (e.g. engagement of distance
    students, how to approach conduct issues)

5
Online Learning Benefits
  • Makes the classroom accessible
  • Brings the classroom to the student (i.e.
    students in rural areas, students from other
    countries, students with disabilities)
  • Promotes exchange of and respect for ideas
  • Levels the playing field no presumptions are
    formed because of bias surrounding race, gender,
    or appearance
  • Cultural exchange of ideas and information

6
Online Learning Challenges
  • Building community
  • Institutional access and services to a student
    not present on campus
  • Cost of Implementation and Upkeep
  • Administrative Training
  • Institutional support teaching faculty how to
    access, use, and manage system
  • Issues of Access (i.e., Digital Divide)
  • Inaccessibility
  • Students from rural areas, students from lower
    socio-economic statuses, students with
    disabilities

7
Institutional Spam Defined
  • Any unwanted/unsolicited e-mails from an
    institution sent to groups of students and
    faculty
  • Consists of
  • Departmental bulletins
  • Event advertisements
  • List-serve activity with automatic membership

8
Institutional Spam Why?
  • Often used (and sometimes abused) form of
    communication on college campuses
  • Rising concern regarding monitoring and filtering
    of messages
  • Censorship
  • Distribution lists and filtering priorities who
    gets access?
  • Raises questions about the ability and method of
    student affairs professionals to communicate with
    students is e-mail effective?

9
Institutional Spam Benefits
  • Ability to access multiple numbers of students
    and community members
  • Widespread distribution of information
  • Consistency of information
  • Content of information disseminated is the same
    for all persons
  • Convenience
  • Wide spread distribution at the touch of a button

10
Institutional Spam Challenges
  • Effectiveness
  • Email may no longer be a student-friendly medium
    (E-mail is for Old People, 2006)
  • Over-stimulation
  • Too many e-mails from too many offices leads to
    disengagement

11
Wireless Networks Defined
  • Telecommunications network whose interconnections
    between nodes (originating/terminating point of
    informational flow) is implemented without the
    use of wires (Wikipedia, 2006)
  • Consists of
  • Wireless internet (WiFi)
  • Cell phones
  • Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) (i.e.
    Blackberry, Pocket PCs)
  • Bluetooth technology (i.e. wireless printing,
    headsets, digital exchange)

12
Wireless Networks Why?
  • An integral part of student world
  • Radically affects the way information is
    disseminated in todays global community
  • Fast-paced
  • Immediate access to information/communication
  • Ever expanding
  • Wave of the future
  • Soon will be the norm in technology on college
    campuses

13
Wireless Networks Benefits
  • Access to information
  • Immediate, consistent
  • Flattens the world (cite reference here)
  • High speed
  • Changes the time associated with research and
    communication to keep up with the speed of life
  • Portable
  • Connections to networks available almost anywhere

14
Wireless Networks Challenges
  • Accessibility
  • Instability of wireless networks
  • Higher demand on personnel time
  • Security Issues
  • Signal is like that of a radio thus can be widely
    accessed
  • If signal is accessed by a person and used for
    illegal or unsavory activities said activities
    are linked to the owner of the signal
  • To protect ones signal s/he must secure or close
    the network (e.g., via password protection)
  • A large cost
  • Upkeep and security
  • Training and support for users

15
Blogs Defined
  • User-generated website where entries are made in
    a journal-style and displayed in a reverse
    chronological order, with the ability of each
    user to leave comments on another users page
    (Wikipedia, 2006)
  • Consists of
  • A dialogue on
  • Commentary/news on a particular subject
  • Politics
  • Personal diaries/journals

16
Blogs Why?
  • Prevalence on college campuses
  • Providing niche content
  • Connects interest areas (Smith, 2005)
  • Level of anonymity allows for free(er) speech
  • Student use as an online forum
  • Bridge between e-mail and social networks
  • Technology is forming community

17
Blogs Benefits
  • Expression of self
  • Sharing of information with like-minded
    individuals
  • Allows for free communication
  • Avenue for building community in the land of
    technology

18
Blogs Challenges
  • Opinions are widely available and accessible
  • Possible repercussions for unfavorable opinions
    (e.g., LGBTQQI student Coming out in online
    journal)
  • Security concerns
  • Type and level of information shared not always a
    concern for users
  • Information is highly accessible in the World
    Wide Web

19
Social Networks Defined
  • Software specifically focused on building online
    communities in an interactive format, consisting
    of individual searchable profiles and groups
    (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Friendster)
  • Consists of
  • Personal information sharing
  • Photo sharing
  • Search capabilities
  • May include blogs

20
Social Networks Why?
  • Creating a new social climate on campus
  • Changing the way students communicate
  • Unknown to many student affairs professionals

21
Social Networks Benefits
  • More outlets for student involvement and
    engagement
  • Finding others who share same interests
  • New and effective way to communicate information
    to student populations
  • Counters a lack of interpersonal connection on
    larger campuses

22
Social Networks Challenges
  • Security
  • Sharing too much personal information can be
    dangerous (e.g. sexual predators, stalkers, etc.)
  • Identity Management
  • Inconsistent representation of institution and
    individual student through profiles and
    information shared
  • Building community
  • Students left with deficiencies in social skills
  • Detracts from face-to-face interactions on campus

23
Recommendations
  • Student Affairs Professionals should strive to
    maintain up-to-date knowledge concerning
    technology and its surrounding issues.
  • Serving the needs of students in todays society
    requires maintaining a certain level of
    competency in the ever-changing field of
    technology.
  • Student affairs professionals must be able to
    take on an active role (i.e., understand, access,
    use, update, and teach) in the technological
    world of higher education.

24
References
  • Carnevale, D. (2006, October 6). E-mail is for
    old people. The Chronicle of Higher Education,
    pp. A27-29.
  • Cate, F. H. (2006, September/October). The
    privacy and security policy vacuum in higher
    education Electronic version. Educause Review,
    41, 5, 18-28.
  • Dewey, B. I., DeBlois, P. B. (2006, May/June).
    Top-10 IT Issues 2006 Electronic version.
    Educause Review, 41, 3, 58-79.
  • Glater, J. D. (2006, February 21).
    ToProfessor_at_University.edu subject Why its all
    about me Electronic version. The New York
    Times, p. A1.
  • http//www.cybermediacreations.com/elearning/gloss
    ary.htm
  • http//www.blackboard.com/us/index.Bb
  • http//www.ifsm.umbc.edu/preece/Papers/chi2003_pa
    nel_Soam.pdf
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_network
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

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References Cont.
  • http//www.webpronews.com/topnews/2005/04/07/measu
    ring-blog-importance-influence
  • Lum, L. (2006, March 9). The power of podcasting.
    Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 23, pp.
    32-35.
  • Madden, M., Fox, S. (2006, October 5). Riding
    the waves of Web 2.0 Retrieved December 27,
    2005 fromhttp//www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Web_
    2.0.pdf
  • Rainie, L. Horrigan, J. (2005, January 25). How
    the internet has woven itself into American life.
    Washington, DC Pew Internet American Life
    Project. Retrieved December 27, 2006
  • Salaway, G., Katz, R. N., Caruso, J. B. (2006,
    December). The ECAR Study of Undergraduate
    Student and Information Technology, 2006.
    Boulder, CO Educause Center for Applied
    Research. Retrieved January 7, 2007
  • Smith, K. (2005, December). To blog or not to
    blog. University Business, 8, 12, 59-62.
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