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On the digital campus

Hello,

I'm Robbie McClintock, a retired professor working to further the digital campus, an important emergent transformation in higher education. We live embedded within the processes through which the digital campus is developing. We can and should make ourselves more aware of what it does, how it works, who it serves, where it flourishes, and why it is important.

As an emerging actuality, the digital campus has many instances, each a large, historical undertaking taking place through continuous metamorphosis. It has no mastermind, no genial inventor; the digital campus appears as an encompassing infrastructure within which the character, spectrum, and limit of a person's educational agency takes place. I want to help make more fully evident the change in pedagogical possibility arising through the digital campus.

Many different participant-observers will contribute distinctive interpretations of these emerging developments. My personal experience and developed intellectual skills enable me to illuminate the advent of the digital campus, attuned to the historical implications of it for educational experience. I believe these historical implications are important and want to further their development in theory and practice as fully as I can.

I was born in 1939 shuffling for periods, long and short, back and forth, between a small farm in eastern Pennsylvania and the Upper East Side of New York City, throughout benefiting from formal education in elite schools—Buckley, Deerfield, Princeton, and Columbia. With the job market then so different from now, I became, ABD, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, and joined the faculty at Columbia in 1967.

Throughout my schooling, I had done poorly at assigned learning but excelled at independent study. Withj the bookstore as my curriculum, I read my way through rinceton, sparked by the Spanish thinker, Jos