I’d never heard of the New Media Consortium before, but they claim a mission to “advocate and stimulate the use of new learning and creative technologies in higher education.” Anyway, their 2006 Horizon Report identifies the following trends among those shaping the role of technology in education:

Dynamic knowledge creation and social computing tools and processes [...]

Posted February 12, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 2006 horizon report, education, internet use, New Media Consortium, new tech, nmc, report, tech horizons, technology in education. Be the first one.

As part of a larger message to faculty returning from winter break, our CIO offered this summary of how he sees advancing internet use affecting higher education:
Are you familiar with blogs and podcasts? Google them, or look them up in Wikipedia. Some of you may already be using these new tools. Others may think these [...]

Posted January 24, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: faculty, higher education, internet, internet and education, internet and higher education, internet use, learning, libaries, library, millennial students, millennials, netgen, netgens, students. 3 Comments.

In recognition of the divisive and increasingly meaningless nature of x.0 monikers — think library 2.0 and the web 2.0 that inspired it — I’m doing away with them.
When Jeffrey Zeldman speaks with disdain about the AJAX happy nouveaux web application designers and the second internet bubble (and he’s not entirely off-base) and starts claiming [...]

Posted January 17, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: change, conflict, divisive, internet usage, internet use, label, lib20, library 2.0, library20, massive social change, moniker, monikers, web 2.0, web20. 4 Comments.

It turns out that the Pew Internet and American Life Project sort of keeps a blog. Here are some points from a November 2004 post by project director Lee Rainie regarding “surprising, strange, and wonderful data:”

The vast majority of most Internet users (80%) and many non-users (about 40%) expect that they will be able to [...]

Posted January 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: internet use, libraries, library, online behavior, patron behavior, pew internet, pew internet project, pip, search engine use, search engines, web searching. Be the first one.