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What Belongs in a 21st-Century Classroom? Faculty and IT Staff Disagree

Mon, 2010-07-19

Faculty members and IT staff members agree that technology is useful for teaching and learning, but professors take a narrower view of what technology belongs in the classroom according to a report released today by CDW-G. 

Of faculty members surveyed, 83% said technology was essential or useful for student learning, and over 60% said they used electronic materials for teaching--the most popular tools being e-textbooks and online documents. Under 25% of faculty used wikis or blogs, and only 31% found online collaboration tools "essential," compared with 72% of IT employees.

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education