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<p>I'm Robbie McClintock, a retired professor working to further <i>the digital campus</i>, an important emergent transformation in higher education. By <i>digital campus</i>, I'm not referring only to distance learning or to how campus courses use information technologies. It's situated at dot-edu, an emerging place in cyberspace, co-existing with the physical campus, where people engaging with an academic institution are becoming able to do all the activities they want and need to do. I'm working to advance that development because I believe it can become a transformative development for the betterment of all.</p> | <p>I'm Robbie McClintock, a retired professor working to further <i>the digital campus</i>, an important emergent transformation in higher education. By <i>digital campus</i>, I'm not referring only to distance learning or to how campus courses use information technologies. It's situated at dot-edu, an emerging place in cyberspace, co-existing with the physical campus, where people engaging with an academic institution are becoming able to do all the activities they want and need to do. I'm working to advance that development because I believe it can become a transformative development for the betterment of all.</p> | ||
<p>That purpose brings me to the business at hand: not to tell all that I think about the digital campus, but to say a bit about my experience that has led to my interest in it. | <p>That purpose brings me to the business at hand: not to tell all that I think about the digital campus, but to say a bit about my experience that has led to my interest in it. To see fully what might be at stake with the emergence of the digital campus, two kinds of experience and knowledge are important. | ||
* One comprises an extensive, wide-ranging grounding in educational thought and practice set within a broad understanding of modern cultural development. | |||
* The second consists in reflective practice extending over many settings across a sustained period of technological development working with digital technologies to effect constructive transformation of systemic educatonal practice. My career, a long one, spans significant engagement and achievement in both realms of experience. I am drawn to the digital campus because I see it as a telos of emerging developments arising with the use of information technologies in higher education and believe that as athat telos, they will exert a powerful counter influence to the progressive depersonalization and reducton of autonomous agency making contemporary life less and less fulfilling for most persons. </p> |
Revision as of 19:44, 2 February 2025
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. By digital campus, I'm not referring only to distance learning or to how campus courses use information technologies. It's situated at dot-edu, an emerging place in cyberspace, co-existing with the physical campus, where people engaging with an academic institution are becoming able to do all the activities they want and need to do. I'm working to advance that development because I believe it can become a transformative development for the betterment of all.
That purpose brings me to the business at hand: not to tell all that I think about the digital campus, but to say a bit about my experience that has led to my interest in it. To see fully what might be at stake with the emergence of the digital campus, two kinds of experience and knowledge are important.
- One comprises an extensive, wide-ranging grounding in educational thought and practice set within a broad understanding of modern cultural development.
- The second consists in reflective practice extending over many settings across a sustained period of technological development working with digital technologies to effect constructive transformation of systemic educatonal practice. My career, a long one, spans significant engagement and achievement in both realms of experience. I am drawn to the digital campus because I see it as a telos of emerging developments arising with the use of information technologies in higher education and believe that as athat telos, they will exert a powerful counter influence to the progressive depersonalization and reducton of autonomous agency making contemporary life less and less fulfilling for most persons.