Main Page

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 have in mind more that distance learning or the use information technologies in campus courses. An institution's dot-edu situates its digital campus, an emerging place in cyberspace, co-existing with the physical campus, where faculty, students, staff, alumni, parents, and the general public all are becoming able to do all the activities they want and need to do through alma mater. I'm working to advance that development because I believe it can become a transformative one 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. Two kinds of experience and knowledge have helped me see what might be at stake with the emergence of the digital campus.

• One comprises an extensive, wide-ranging grounding in educational thought and practice set within a broad understanding of modern cultural development.
• A second consists in reflective practice, working in many settings for sustained periods with digital technologies to effect constructive transformation of systemic educatonal systems.

My career, a long one, has spanned significant engagement and achievement in both these realms. Now, late in a long life, I'm drawn to setting forth what I think the digital campus can and should becomebecause 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.