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Ocotillo Chairs Reading List
In our work we will be sharing useful articles and other materials with the ocotillo chairs.

  1. Why Universities Need Technology Strategies by Sir John S. Daniel. Change: July-August 1997, 11-17.
    "In most of the world, higher education is mired in a crises that mixes three issues: access, cost, and flexibility. Unless we resolve this crises, billions of people in the coming generations will be denied the intellectual liberation of the academic mode of thinking. The United States has the world's strongest university system but seems ill-equipped to guide us out of the crises. This is because the U.S. system is peculiarly welded to the technologies of real-time teaching and to the outmoded idea that quality in education is necessarily linked to exclusivity of access and extravagance of resource. There is today, however, a new type of university that is providing answers to the crises of access, cost, and flexibility-- the 'mega-university.' In this article, I will explore the implication of this new phenomena for U.S. higher education."

  2. Computer Efficiency: Measuring the Instructional use of Technology by Christopher Moerch. Learning and Leading With Technology: December/January 1996, 52-56.
    "I have developed an instrument that measures computer efficiency at the school site level. The term computer efficiency is defined as the degree to which computers are being used in to support concept-based or process-based instruction, consequential learning, and higher order thinking skills... this approach de-emphasizes the importance of (1) the brand, type, or age of computers at the school site; (2) the ratio of computers to students; and (3) the amount of funding allocated for infrastructure... Instead, primary emphasis is given to the degree that technology is used to support a constructivist orientation to classroom pedagogy based upon the available hardware and software at the school site... changing classroom practices so that they unleash the potential of computer technology will never occur of purchase-order acquisitions of new hardware and infrastructure take precedence over quality staff development opportunities."

  3. Critical Technical Literacy Practices in Technology-Rich Environments by Dickie Selfe, Michigan Technological University. PhD Dissertation: 1997
    These materials, provided by Dickie Selfe were from a presentation he provided at the 1997 AAHE/TLTR Summer Institute, include results and analysis of a survey he completed for his PhD. It includes several useful matrices of how to lok at a grid of the players involved in Technology Rich environments (students, teachers, technical support, adminsitrators, etc) and the areas of which they are involved (Instructional design, technical support, finances, policy-making, access, and professional development). The matrices are a useful tool for gauging where an institution is in terms of technology and to identify key areas and opportunities for improvement. more of Selfe's materials are available at http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~rselfe/diss/prematter.html including Adobe Acrobat format of his dissertation summary and RealAudio playback of his defense.

  4. Oklahoma State University- Oklahoma City College Technology Planning Process
    At the November 7 Ocotillo Chairs meeting ACE fellow Dr. Jerrilee Mosier, ACE Fellow and Vice Provost of Academic Affairs shared how OSU/OK created a technology plan with a high level of faculty input. She shared copies of the plan and the report

  5. Paradise Valley Community College Technology Needs Survey
    Also at the November 7 Ocotillo Chairs meeting Jeanne Franco (PVCC) shared a copy of a survey they used for faculty to assess their technology training needs. Results are available from the PVCC website:
          http://www.pvc.maricopa.edu/committee/tct/needs_assess_97/

  6. "Technology: Putting the Pieces Together, Technology Planning Strategies"
    This satellite videoconference on November 17, 1997 featured representatives from several community colleges to share their approaches to technology planning. In our library is a videotape copy of the 2 hour presentation as well as handout materials. A follow-up web site is available at:
          http://www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us/futuretracks/

  7. Glendale Community College's Five Year Lab Plan
    Bob Albury shared a copy of GCC's ongoing plan for replacement and upgrades of computer labs. They have a complex but logical cycle that meets thre needs of the different disciplines. A key component is that rather than moving equipmentfrom lab to lab each year, they simply move the clases that use that lab.
         http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/apollo/desktop/GCC/crc.html

  8. Higher Education in the Digital Age The Higher Education Alliance for Information Technology, November 1997.
    "This document is a starting point for delineating national policies that will permit colleges and universities to exploit and advance the digital environment to carry out their three-part mission of teaching, research, and public service. The document addresses the planning, development, deployment, uses and funding of information technology in higher education and the formulation and application of balanced intellectual property policies governing digital information."
          http://www.nasulgc.nche.edu/DigitalAge_TOC.htm

  9. Computer Technology at Community Colleges by Gregory Kienzl and Yong Li, a research brief from the American Association of Community Colleges, 1997.
    "Up to this point, there has been little comprehensive information regarding the current state of computer usage and network connectivity on community college campuses. In order to examine these issues the American Association of Community Colleges designed the Community College Computer Survey. the survey was distributed to approximately 1,300 communtiy colleges in 1996."

  10. Forecasting Financial Priorities for Technology Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WICHE)
    "At the end of the 1980s many colleges and universities developed financial models for technology based on then-current assumptions about student ownership of microcomputers, hardware life-cycles, maintenance contracts, and other factors. Many of these assumptions are no longer valid. With technology costs and revenue opportunities changing so rapidly, it is clear that future financial strategies will need to be more agile and adaptable than ever before. This article presents financial models drawn from more than 20 independent colleges and universities and discusses how they have been used to define a technology financial strategy at Reed College. "
          http://www.cause.org/information-resources/ir-library/html/cem9736.html

  11. Principles of Good Practice for Electronically Offered Academic Degree and Certificate Programs by by Martin D. Ringle , CAUSE/EFFECT, Fall 1997.
    "These Principles are the product of a Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications project, Balancing Quality and Access: Reducing State Policy Barriers to Electronically Delivered Higher Education Programs. The three-year project, supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, is designed to foster an interstate environment that encourages the electronic provision of quality higher education programs across state lines. The Principles have been developed by a group representing the Western states' higher education regulating agencies, higher education institutions, and the regional accrediting community."
          http://www.wiche.edu/Telecom/projects/principles.htm