Building the Academic Ecosystem: Implications of e-Learning

01/12/2007

Building the Academic Ecosystem: Implications of e-Learning

The first duty of an education is to stir up life, but leave it free to develop.
Maria Montessori

A thought provoking paper by John Witherspoon, "Building the Academic Ecosystem: Implications of e-Learning," has recently been published on the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET) website. The paper addresses how technology has changed higher education worldwide and presents a picture of the current state of e-learning in higher education. Witherspoon, WCET senior advisor, discusses major events, critical issues, key innovations, and promising practices to explore the evolving nature of the “academic ecosystem” and the role of technology within it.

The Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications was founded by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education in 1989, a membership-supported organization open to providers and users of educational telecommunications. The paper is based on presentations by some of the field’s leading thinkers and innovators at WCET’s annual conference.

Visit the WCET website at www.wcet.info

Explore the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education website at http://wiche.edu/

Submitted by Chip Donohue

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