Talk:TDC/what

Outtakes

Let's start with a working assertion that the activities characteristic of higher education, aka, academic life, specifically universities and colleges, take place on campuses. A campus provides the location where people meet and interact in all the many ways that we describe as indicating that academic work is taking place.

In making this assertion, we should recognize that the campus is not a particular kind of building housing classrooms, laboratories, or libraries. Instead, the campus provides a location for particular kinds of human interaction; it is a medium by means of which the work of people engaged in higher education takes place.

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A campus is a place, a location in the material world, where the activities of an institution of higher education take place.

In doing that, we won't be nerding on about hardware, software, and a bit of wetware to keep things lively.

Welcome to The Digital Campus. We'll take a tour and talk about a bunch of things it does, how it works, who it serves, where it flourishes, and why it's important. I'm Robbie, and I'll be showing you around with a comment now and then. What's that? Yeah, usually a student leads the campus tour, but usually it's a brick-and-mortar campus, charming but well-trodden, and a young face brings it to life. The digital campus is pretty new and in many cases it's hard to see the campus in what we'll be looking at.

In exploring the digital campus, we concentrate on what people do as they engage in the activities of higher education. A campus is a place where people go to do things, to do things together, to interact. It's the place where everything comprising higher education takes place.