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Looking Beyond the Horizon: Trends Shaping Student Affairs : Technology M. Lee Upcraft and Patrick T. Terenzini, in Higher Education Trends for the Next Century: A Research Agenda for Student Success, 2002
Is the technological revolution a journey to higher levels of human experience, or a gigantic leap into the abyss of total mechanization of the human race? Or will it be neither? And no matter how it turns out, what does it all mean for higher education and student affairs? This paper identifies some of the basic technology-related trends in higher education and discusses the implications of these trends for student affairs.
http://www.acpa.nche.edu/seniorscholars/trends/trends5.htm

Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books, Study Finds Scott Carlson, The Chronicle of Education, August 26, 2002
E-book technology needs some improvement before students will be willing to use e-books instead of textbooks, according to a report on a study conducted at Ball State University... Although the researchers started with the assumption that e-books would be just as easy to use as textbooks, they soon found that students had various complaints about the performance of the e-book devices. But students who used e-books did just as well on quizzes as those who used printed texts.
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/08/2002082601t.htm

The Power of Portals Florence Olsen, The Chronicle of Education, August 9, 2002
MORE COLLEGES ARE SYNTHESIZING their various online offerings and support services into a single Web site...

At many universities with institutional portals, however, a student logs on to the portal once and does all of those things. The portal is also the place where the institution publishes automated alerts as soon as grades go online, and where it posts reminders to students about such things as scholarship and tuition deadlines.

A growing number of universities, especially large public and private institutions, are creating portals, and many technology experts think that portals will become common at colleges. In a recent survey by Edu-cause, the education-technology consortium, institutional portals ranked fourth among the top-10 technology issues that college administrators expected would gain importance in the next 12 months.
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i48/48a03201.htm

Bricks and Clicks: The Learning Space of the Future inventio, Spring 2002, Vol 4:1
"What will the learning spaces of the future be like? Who will teach and who will learn? Where? When? How? In this issue of inventio, several authors try to answer these questions. They shift the learning space from the classroom to the campus, from the campus to the community and from the sound of a teacher's voice to the clatter of a computer's keys. They propose radical solutions to perennial problems, redefine the role of students as both learners and teachers and capture the unintended (as well as the planned) consequences of pedagogical and technological innovation."
http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/inventio/issue.asp?pID=spring02&sID=issue

Digital Divide e-mail message from Maria Hesse, President, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, June 9, 2002
"Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a Boys and Girls Club event and I was reminded of why it is important for us to continue to carefully consider how we manage our college computing resources, especially on behalf of our students who may not have access except through the college."
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/docs/bgclub_digital_divide.pdf [7k PDF]

A Digital Divide Between Students and Educators? Internet Messaging Planet
When it comes to education and the Internet, U.S. teenagers wish their teachers and schools would just get with it and include the 'Net more in their curriculum, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Internet-savvy students -- three in five children under the age of 18, and more than 78% of kids between 12 and 17 go online, according to an earlier Pew study -- rely on the 'Net to help them with completing their schoolwork. They use it for research, collaboration with other students, and as a resource for information passed on to them by other students or teachers. Students also use it as a "virtual guidance counselor" and as a way to store important school-related materials.
http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article/0,,10817_1447791,00.html