Pirate turned explorer

Article Abstract:

Diana Laurillard, head of the e-learning strategy unit at the Department for Education and Skills, is responsible for developing the UK government's e-learning strategy, which could be the key to teaching the growing number of students entering higher education. She acknowledges that student expansion is the main driver of her e-learning proposals, and notes that the big challenge facing university teachers is that e-learning requires a different sort of thinking to that which they are used to but argues that they will have to meet this challenge as there is no way to expand the teaching workforce at the same rate at which the student population is rising.

United Kingdom, Government domestic functions, Usage, Social policy, Political aspects, Interview, Education policy, Laurillard, Diana

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Time to cut the cables?

Article Abstract:

A profile of Twente University in the Netherlands which, with 650 access points, is the first university in Europe to have a totally wireless campus. The move to a wireless campus has drastically altered the way the students learn and study, offering them easier access and more open learning and teaching, however, the affordability of equipment for students is an issue, as are security problems and the costs of supporting a wireless network.

Netherlands, Wireless communications services, Educational aspects, Wireless voice/data service

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Portal power

Article Abstract:

Examination of why more and more universities are investing in portals - virtual gateways to information sources which have been filtered specifically for the user. It is argued that portals are becoming a strategic necessity for university as they enable computer systems that may be of different ages and technical specification to communicate with each other in an higher education environment that is becoming increasingly globalised.

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