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Informationen zum Autor Sally M. Johnstone is vice president for academic affairs at Winona State University and former executive director of WCET, the Cooperative advancing the effective use of technology in higher education. In that capacity she worked with institutions, states, and provinces on planning and policies for the integration of technology into the academic structures of higher education institutions and systems. She also leads workshops and gives about a dozen invited addresses each year to higher education organizations throughout the world. Dr. Johnstone has authored dozens of articles, book chapters, and major reports on open and distributed learning; served on the governing boards of both higher education associations and institutions; and currently serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals. She was a faculty member and an academic administrator after earning her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. WCET is a member ship organization of 275 member located in more than 45 U.S. states and 7 countries. WCET member are primarily public colleges and universities but also conclude private institutions, government agencies, and corporations. The WCET staff develops research projects that focus on integrating technology into the teaching and learning processes, consults with higher education institutions, holds professional development conferences for practitioners, and generally supports WCET members in the planning and implementation of e-learning. WCET was founded in 1989 by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). Klappentext Current technologies, when planned and used properly, can improve the academy for students and for those who serve students. This can be done by making the academic enterprise more efficient while offering students more opportunities to learn in styles and at paces that are more individualized than has ever been possible. Many of these new ideas incorporate the wise use of information and communication technologies. Advancing Campus Efficiencies is a pragmatic and practical tool for deans, vice presidents, and presidents of private and public colleges and universities. 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, this book provides straightforward advice and nontechnical information to help college and university administrators respond to the calls for greater accountability in higher education and students' increasing expectations for the availability of high levels of technology. Conntents include: The urgency for efficiency and the use of technology Evaluating quality and costs on campus Student services Faculty roles and intellectual property Accountability and assuring quality Lessons for consortial agreements Taking higher education to the next level Zusammenfassung Technology is continually changing the world. In higher education in particular! new technologies can be applied to great advantage by campus communities seeking to offer better services for students in more efficient ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Authors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Foreword. 1 The Journey Begins ( Sally M. Johnstone ). Do For-Profit Institutions Have Competitive Advantage? ( Michael B. Goldstein ). The Top Critical Issues for Higher a Education Today ( David Longanecker ). Leadership in a Technology-Rich Environment ( Judith A. Ramaley ). 2 Cost Efficiencies: Tools for Meeting Today's Challenges ( Katrina A. Meyer and Russell Poulin ). Technology Costing Methodology Lessons Learned ( Marianne Boeke and Dennis Jones ). Insights...
