Instructional Technology

By no means is the topic of Instructional Technology limited to the halls of academia.  Because this is a topic of culture, the implications of the technological revolution in daily life are far reaching.  Recently I found an excellent article on Digital Literacy in The Economist, a news source far removed from the daily life [...]

Educause is an organization dedicated to the intelligent use of technology to promote higher education.  This article from one of their recent Educause Review periodicals does a nice job of summing up several aspects of the field at the moment.  From the article:
Today’s faculty members face several instructional technology challenges:

The technology-adoption cycle: Under ideal circumstances, [...]

In the world of technology, there are the Digital Natives, and the Digital Immigrants.  This is not an entirely fixed division, and is not made for the purposes of discriminating against one group or the other.  Like generational gaps (Gen X, Baby Boomers, etc.) there are cultural divides everywhere, and this is just one way [...]

At this point, people removed from academia, or perhaps even some of those not so removed, may be asking themselves, why?  Why is there a special position called an Instructional Technologist?  It’s not a bad question, and even if you aren’t asking that, it is sometimes good to think about it anyhow.  Of course, in [...]

How is my job different from a Help Desk?
Because a regular Help Desk is concerned with the operational status of your technology.  Does it work? Do you know how to use it?  My job has elements of that, certainly, but it is simultaneously broader and narrower.  For example, I am the primary administrator for the [...]