Integrating Information Technology into College and University Instruction

2/18/97

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Integrating Information Technology into College and University Instruction

Using Technology

Percent of Firms Downsizing by Business Category

During the decade of the 80’s, 46% of the companies listed in the “Fortune 500” disappeared.

From 1980 to 1994, the U.S. contingent workforce—temps, self-employed, consultants—increased 57%

Going are the 9-5 workdays, lifetime jobs, predictable, hierarchical relationships, corporate culture security blankets, and, for a large and growing sector of the workforce, the workplace itself (replacedby a cybernetics “workspace”).

Constant training, retraining, job-hopping, and even career-hopping will become the norm.

Implications of Work in 2004

What Lies Ahead in Technology

The cost of computing power drops roughly 30% every year, and microchips are doubling in performance power every 18 months.

Say you are going to a party. You buy a greeting card that plays “Happy Birthday” when opened. The next day the card is tossed into the trash, throwing away more computer power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

You give the birthday kid a Saturn, made by Sega, the gamemaker. It runs on a higher-performance processor than the original 1976 Cray supercomputer.

Today’s average consumers wear more computing power on their wrists than existed in the entire world before 1961.

In 1991, companies spent more money on computing and communications gear than the combined monies spent on industrial, mining, farm, and construction equipment.

Technological Tools

Learning: Children Are

Natural Learning

Learning Styles

The Enrollment Pipeline

An Aging Clientele for Higher Education

Author: James L. Morrison

Email: morrison@unc.edu

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