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Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality
Bryan Alexander
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 44, No. 3 (2009) pp. 12–29
Deciding which technologies to support for teaching and learning--and how to support them--depends, first, on the ability to learn about each emerging development. Selecting a platform without knowing what is coming right behind it can be risky....
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Web 2.0 and Emergent Multiliteracies
Bryan Alexander
Theory Into Practice Vol. 47, No. 2 (April 2008) pp. 150–160
Students are, increasingly, digital content producers, and participate extensively in evolving online social networks. The emergence of the former represents subtle changes in students' experience of images, audience, copyright, ownership of...
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Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?
Bryan Alexander
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 41, No. 2 (2006) pp. 33–34
Web 1.0 has demonstrated immense powers for connecting learners, teachers, and materials. How much more broadly will this connective matrix grow under the impact of the openness, ease of entry, and social nature of Web 2.0? This article examines...
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Going Nomadic: Moblile Learning in Higher Education
Bryan Alexander
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 39, No. 5 (2004)
The combination of wireless technology and mobile computing is resulting in escalating transformations of the educational world. The question is, how are the wireless, mobile technologies affecting the learning environment, pedagogy, and campus life?...
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Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre
Bryan Alexander; Alan Levine
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 43, No. 6 (2008)
A "story" has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid--perhaps the line of a...
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NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy
Michele Cummins; Samantha Adams Becker; Bryan Alexander
NMC Releases Horizon Project Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy (October 2016) pp. 1–16
This project was launched because there is a lack of consensus across the field about how to define digital literacy and implement effective programs. A survey was disseminated throughout the NMC community of higher education leaders and...
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Social Software and The Future of Conferences Right Now
Vicki Suter; Bryan Alexander; Pascal Kaplan
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 40, No. 1 (2005)
Until recently, the models for conceptualizing activities in physical space and in Internet space have been limited by the thought that one or the other has to be chosen. An initial integration of these apparently disparate spaces emerged when...
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Digital Literacy: An NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief
Bryan Alexander; Samantha Adams; Michele Cummins
(October 2016) pp. 1–16
Digital Literacy: An NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief was commissioned by Adobe Systems to explore an increasingly pressing challenge for United States higher education institutions: advancing digital literacy among students and faculty....
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Digital Literacy in Higher Education, Part II: An NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief
Bryan Alexander; Samantha Adams Becker; Michele Cummins; Courtney Hall Giesinger
(August 2017) pp. 1–37
Digital Literacy in Higher Education, Part II: An NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief is a follow-up to the 2016 strategic brief, supported by Adobe, which explored an increasingly pressing challenge for United States higher education institutions:...
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E-COMP: A Few Words About Teaching Writing with Computers
Bryan Alexander; James Crowley; Deanne Lundin; Vicki Mudry; Stephanie Palmer; Eric Rabkin
T.H.E. Journal Vol. 25, No. 2 (1997) pp. 66–67
A group of graduate-student instructors and English faculty at the University of Michigan discusses how computers were used to teach writing in their English composition courses. Collaborative evaluation and writing using e-mail and World Wide Web...
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Horizon Report 2019 Higher Education Edition
Bryan Alexander; Kevin Ashford-Rowe; Noreen Barajas-Murph; Gregory Dobbin; Jessica Knott; Mark McCormack; Jeffery Pomerantz; Ryan Seilhamer; Nicole Weber
(2019) pp. 3–41
This report profiles six key trends, six significant challenges, and six developments in educational technology for higher education. These three sections of this report constitute a reference and technology planning guide for educators, higher...