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| "Excerpts from Newman's Report on Higher-Education Policy." The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 18, 1985, 17. |
| Highlights of a report published by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Areas covered include pressures for economic growth, international competition in advanced technologies, and the "urgent" need for creative and civic-minded graduates. Calls for a fundamental re-examination of national policies toward higher education. |
| "The University of the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium to Celebrate the Centenary of the University of Chicago." Minerva, Summer 1992. |
| Articles and discussion summaries offer starting points for reflection on the situation of universities in the next century, availability of financial resources, problems and prospects, and the maintenance of character as centers of learning , training and research. |
| "The Changing Faces of the American College Campus." Change, September/October 1993, 57-60. |
| Profiles the changing demographics of today's undergraduate student population. |
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"The Knowledge Economy: The Nature of Information in the 21st Century."
Institute for Information Studies: Joint Program of Aspen Institute and
Northern Telecom, Inc. 1993-1994. [ URL: http://www.aspeninst.org/dir/polpro/CSP/IIS/93-94/93-94.html ] |
| Annual Review of the Institute for Information Studies. A collection of six papers provide a "window into the thought of tomorrow" on the nature of information. |
| "Discounting and It's Discontents: The Cost of Maintaining Enrollment." Change, July/August 1994, 33-36. |
| Examines a pattern of change in the financial viability of private colleges and universities increasingly forced to discount tuition as a condition of market competition. |
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"A National Strategy for Managing Scientific and Technological
Information." Association of American Universities Research Libraries
Project - Report of the AAU Task Force, May, Association of Research
Libraries, 1994. [ URL: http://arl.cni.org/aau/STITOC.html ] |
| Evaluates options for managing scientific and technical information. |
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"Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment.", Association
of American Universities Research Libraries Project - Report of the AAU
Task Force, May, 1994. [ URL: http://arl.cni.org/aau/IPTOC.html ] |
| Suggests a range of opportunities for universities to develop coherent copyright policies and documents the complexity and ramifications of such change. |
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"Scenarios: Wired Special Edition." Wired, Fall 1995. [ URL: http://www.hotwired.com/wired/scenarios/ ] |
| Wired staff undertake the GBN scenario building process to explore the future. |
| "On the Brink: Report on the Use and Management of Information Technology at AASCU Institutions." Washington, D.C.: American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 1995. |
| Summary report of the results of an American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) survey conducted in the spring of 1994 on the use and management of information technology. |
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"Careers '95: The Future of the Ph.D." Science, October 6, 1995,
121 - 146. [ URL: http://sci.aaas.org/nextwave/careers95/ ] |
| Through a series of articles, the annual "Careers" section of Science examines the current and future outlook for Ph.D. students. |
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Acker, Stephen R. "Space, Collaboration, and the Credible City:
Academic Work in the Virtual University." Journal of Computer Mediated
Communication, vol. 1, no. 1. [ URL: http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/vol1/issues/acker/ACKTEXT.HTM ] |
| This article asks collaborators to be sensitive to the role that physical space plays in creative human endeavors, and to consider the impact on work accomplished in merged electronic and physical work environments. |
| Applegate, Lynda M., James I. Cash, Jr., and D. Quinn Mills. "Information Technology and Tomorrow's Manager." Harvard Business Review, November-December 1988. |
| Looks back on a 1958 HBR article which predicted the impact information technologies would have on corporate life and then takes a similar look forward from the vantage point of 30 years later. |
| Arnold, Kenneth. "Virtual Transformations: The Evolution of Publication Media." Library Trends, Spring 1995, 609-626. |
| Examines the developing publication forms in the electronic environment. Suggests the book will be significantly altered in the networked future, but concludes impediments to change are cultural, not economic or technological. |
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Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "Scholarly Electronic Publishing on the Internet,
the NREN, and the NII: Charting Possible Futures." Serials Review, vol.
20, no. 3 (1994): 7-16. [ URL: gopher://info.lib.uh.edu:70/00/articles/uhlibrary/bailey/baileysr.203 ] |
| Examines how scholarly electronic publishing could be conducted on the Internet, the National Research and Education Network (NREN), and the National Information Infrastructure (NII); and reviews existing proposals for change. Envisions network-based electronic publishing as initially augmenting conventional publishing efforts and then gradually displacing them. |
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Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "Network-Based Electronic
Publishing of Scholarly
Works: A Selective Bibliography." The Public-Access Computer Systems
Review, vol. 6, no. 1 (1995). [ URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n1/bail6n1.htm ] |
| Bibliography of selected works useful in the understanding of scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. |
| Barlow, John P. "A Taxonomy of Information." Bulletin of the American Society of Information Science, June/July 1994. |
| Outlines the properties and nature of information and raises questions about information protection and the nature of an economy based on information. |
| Barrett, Edward, ed. Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction of Knowledge: The MIT Press, 1992. |
| A compilation of twenty-five articles on the theory, design and practice of educational multimedia and hypermedia. |
| Beniger, J.R. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. |
| Detailed history of the rise of technologies and techniques of communication and information-processing, and their use for controlling social and economic processes, prefaced by a general discussion of these subjects and their importance for history. |
| Bergquist, William H.; Smith, Ronald. "Research and Scholarship: New Challenges and Strategies for Serving Nontraditional Learners." Liberal Education, vol. Vol. 78, no. No. 4 (1992): 20 - 25. |
| Documents some of the major changes occurring inside and outside the academy and trace their implications for the nontraditional learner. |
| Bok, Derek. "Looking Into Education's High Tech Future." EDUCOM Bulletin, Fall 1985. |
| Reviews a number of technology initiatives and discusses their impact on the university of the future. |
| Bok, Derek. Higher Learning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986. |
| Examines the state of American universities and the effect of the competitive characteristic on their development. |
| Bok, Derek. "Reclaiming the Public Trust." Change, July August 1992, 13-19. |
| Argues that to public trust, universities must persuade the public and itself that the quality of education is their number one priority and professional schools must play their full part in a national effort to address challenges that currently worry Americans. |
| Bolter, Jay David. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1991. |
| Influential book addressing the study of the computer as a new technology for reading and writing. Examines the technique of hypertext and the changing meaning of literacy in contemporary culture. |
| Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. "Universities in the Digital Age." Xerox Palo Alto Research Paper, 1995. |
| Argues a university's value lies in the relationship it creates between knowledge, communities and credentials and that structural changes, institutional or technological, must recognize this relationship. Examines some examples of Internet-supported teaching and explores arrangements that might allow universities to make use of emerging technologies to their fullest advantage. |
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Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. "The Social
Life of Documents." First Monday, Vol.1 No.1, May 6, 1996. [ URL: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue1/documents/ ] [ Note: Visit URL: http://www.firstmonday.dk/ for journal and registration information ] |
| Presents a thesis that documents are much more than information delivery mechanisms, they are a powerful resource for constructing and negotiating social space. It is this dimension of the document that makes it easier to understand the success of the World Wide Web and assess it's future. |
| Bruffee, Kenneth A. Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. |
| Explores the role and implications of collaborative learning for the mission and future of college teaching and higher education. |
| Bruffee, Kenneth A. "The Art of Collaborative Learning: Making the Most of Knowledgeable Peers." Change, May/June 1994. |
| Describes and defines the nature of collaborative learning and the need to challenge the traditional view of teaching. |
| Buchbinder, Howard. "The market oriented university and the changing role of knowledge." Higher Education, vol. 26 (1993): 331-347. |
| The development of corporate-university linkages occurs within the sphere of two major influences, the information society and the globalization of capital. The first part of this paper discusses areas of development and conflict within the market university. The second part focuses on the role of knowledge within market university and the change from social knowledge to market knowledge. |
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Bush, Vannevar. "As We May Think." The Atlantic
Monthly, July 1945. [ URL: http://www2.theAtlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm ] |
| Classic article in which many of the ideas for managing personal access to information we take for granted today were first presented. |
| Cartwright, G. Phillip. "A Day in the Life of a Faculty Member: 1999." Change, November/December 1994, 50-51. |
| Through the description of a day in the life of a hypothetical professor in 1999, the author illustrates how information technology is transforming the daily life of faculty. |
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Casper, Gerhard. "Come the Millennium, Where the
University?" Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research
Association, San Francisco, CA, April 18, 1995. [ URL: http://www-portfolio.stanford.edu/104492 ] |
| Examines a few of the roles universities play in modern society and asks us to imagine a world without universities. |
| Cleveland, H. "The Twilight of Hierarchy: Speculation on the Global Information Society." In Information Technologies and Social Transformation., edited by B.R. Guile. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1985. |
| Provides insights into the nature of information and the changes in society being brought about by the rapid development of new information technologies. |
| Cole, Jonathan R., Elinor G. Barber, and Stephen R. Graubard, eds. The Research University in a Time of Discontent. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. |
| Collection of articles examining the question of the future of the research university in today's climate of change. |
| Collins, Mauri P., and Zane L. Berge. "IPCT Journal: A Case Study of an Electronic Journal on the Internet." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 45, no. 10 (1994): 771-776. |
| This article reviews the background of the founding of the Interpersonal Computing and Technology Journal: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century (IPCT-J). Issues of scholarship and their relationship to publication (both print and electronic) are discussed. |
| D'Souza, Dinesh I. "Illiberal Education." Atlantic Monthly, March 1991. |
| Addresses the dilemma of higher education's ability and desire to attain the goals of a liberal education while also desiring to be "politically correct." |
| Davidow, William H., and Michael S. Malone. The Virtual Corporation: Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1992. |
| Provides an integrated look at the customer-driven company of the future, which produces "virtual" products high in added value, rich in variety, and available instantly in response to customer needs. The employees of the virtual corporation will need to be highly skilled, reliable, and educated workers--people who can understand and use the new forms of information, adapt to change, and work efficiently with others. |
| Dede, Christopher J. "Education in the Twenty-First Century." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 522 (1992): 104-115. |
| Argues America's multiple educational systems are its major long-term mechanism for shaping the future, but this infrastructure for human resource development, rather than shifting its mission as the societal environment has changed, has remained static and is likely to stay so. |
| DeLoughry, Thomas. "Textbooks on Demand." Chronicle of Higher Education, October 12, 1994. |
| Describes the growing business of custom published textbooks. |
| Diamond, Robert M., and Adam, Bronwyn E. eds. "Recognizing Faculty Work: Reward Systems for the Year 2000." New Directions for Higher Education, no. 81, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1993. |
| Collection of articles focused on the reconceptualization of the extrinsic and intrinsic reward systems operating in higher education. |
| Doctor, Ronald D. "Information Technologies and Social Equity: Confronting the Revolution." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 42, no. 3 (1991): 216-228. |
| Argues that under prevailing policies, serious social equity issues are arising as we move further into the Information Age. Proposes the creation of a system of national and regional Institutes for Information Democracy focusing on research and implementation activities designed to mitigate equity problems and expand information industry markets. |
| Dolence, Michael G.; Norris, Donald M. Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the 21st Century. Ann Arbor, MI: Society for College and University Planning, 1995. |
| Describes the implications of a transformation from the Industrial Age model for education where colleges and universities "own" the teaching franchise to a learning vision for the Information Age where the learning franchise will be spread across many providers. Designed to help institutions design a vision framework for transformation. |
| Doty, Philip, and Ann P. Bishop. "The National Information Infrastructure and Electronic Publishing: A Reflective Essay." Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 45, no. 10 (1994): 785-799. |
| Examines the history and present state of federal initiatives in electronic networking (particularly the National Information Infrastructure [NII] and the National Research and Education Network [NREN]; looks at current trends and issues for electronic publishing resulting from federal activity; and identifies topics of fundamental interest to, and with major implications for, national policy that arise from electronic publishing. |
| Drucker, Peter F. "The New Productivity Challenge." Harvard Business Review, November-December 1991, 69-79. |
| The single greatest challenge facing managers is to raise the productivity of knowledge and service workers. |
| Drucker, Peter F. Post-Capitalist Society. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1993. |
| Discusses world transformation from a society based on capital, land, and labor to a society whose primary resource is knowledge and whose structure is the organization. |
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Drucker, Peter F. "The Age of Social
Transformation." The Atlantic Monthly, November 1994. [ URL: http://www2.TheAtlantic.com/atlantic/issues/95dec/Chilearn/drucker.htm ] |
| A survey of the epoch that began early in this century, and an analysis of its latest manifestations: economic order and inequality are knowledge-based and government cannot be looked to for solving social and economic problems. |
| Dunlop, Charles, and Rob Kling, eds. Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Inc., 1991. |
| Collection of articles focusing on various aspects of computerization that support the editors thesis that widely deployed technologies alter social practices and choices. |
| Edgerton, Russell. "The Re-examination of Faculty Priorities." Change, July/August 1993, 10-25. |
| Summary of findings from review of materials generated from over 50 campus task forces charged with re-examining various aspects of faculty reward systems. |
| Ernst, D.; Katz, R.; Sack, J. "Organizational and Technological Strategies for Higher Education in the Information Age." CAUSE Professional Paper 13. (303) 939-0310 orders@cause.colorado.edu, 1994. |
| Describes outdated organizational and technical strategies and summarizes new ones, for dealing with five areas of change impacting higher education today. |
| Etzkowitz. "Knowledge as Property: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Debate over Academic Patent Policy." Minerva, Winter 1994, 383-421. |
| Surveys the debate over ownership and access to patents resulting from university-based research work. |
| Farnham, Nicholas H.; Yarmolinsky, Adam. "Rethinking Liberal Education." Paper presented at the Leadership Program of the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, April 14-17, 1994 1995. |
| Looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and strategies for getting there. A number of proposals are put forward concerning how better to connect the curriculum and organization of liberal arts colleges with today's challenging economic and social realities, and argue that the curriculum could be made more flexible without loss of integrity. |
| Florida, Richard. "Toward the Learning Region." Futures, vol. 27, no. 5 (1995): 527-536. |
| Regions are becoming focal points for knowledge and learning in the new age of global, knowledge-intensive capitalism. They are in effect becoming "learning regions." |
| Fortner, Robert S. "Excommunication in the Information Society." Critical Studies in Mass Communication, vol. 12, no. 2 (1995): 133-154. |
| Argues universal service has never been achieved by any medium of communication and the national information infrastructure will not alter this history and some people will be excommunicated by excess, economics and choice. |
| Frye, Billy E. "Choices & Responsibilities: Shaping Emory's Future." Atlanta, GA: Emory University, 1994. |
| Set of essays designed to expand upon campus dialog regarding the future of Emory University. |
| Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind, The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1983. |
| Influential book in which the author presents his theory of multiple human intelligences and describes seven candidate intelligences. |
| Gardner, Howard. The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach. New York: BasicBooks, 1991. |
| States that most children tend to develop deeply entrenched patterns of thinking and learning by the time they are five years old. When children begin school they are introduced to scholastic and disciplinary forms of knowing that often interfere with, earlier frames of reference. |
| Gilmore, Matthew B., and Donald O. Case. "Historians, Books, Computers, and the Library." Library Trends, vol. 40, no. 4 (1992): 667-686. |
| Discusses the nature of historical scholarship and how it will be effected by the increasing use of electronic technology. |
| Glick, Milton D. "Integrating Computing Into Higher Education." EDUCOM Review, Summer 1990. |
| Argues that despite the large investment in computers, the impact on the educational processes on campus have been marginal |
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Greenberger, Martin. "The Computers of Tomorrow."
The Atlantic Monthly, May 1964. [ URL: http://www2.theAtlantic.com/atlantic/atlweb/flashbks/computer/greenbf.htm ] |
| Author presents the future possibility of an "information utility" and raises the question of how government regulation might or might not play a role in the new market. |
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Gresham, John L. "From Invisible College to Cyberspace College: Computer
Conferencing and the Transformation of Informal Scholarly Communication
Networks." Interpersonal Computing and Technology Journal, vol. 2, no. 4
(1994): 37-52. LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU GET GRESHAM IPCTV2N4 |
| Argues the transformation of informal scholarly communications has begun and academia is in the initial stages of a shift from the "invisible college" to the "cyberspace college." |
| Guskin, Alan E. "Restructuring the Role of Faculty." Change, September/October 1994, 16-25. |
| Second of two-part article on the need to restructure college and university administration and faculty to reduce overall cost to students and improve student learning. |
| Guskin, Alan E. "Reducing Student Costs and Enhancing Student Learning." Change, July/August 1994, 23-29. |
| First of two-part article on the need to restructure college and university administration and faculty to reduce overall cost to students and improve student learning. |
| Hague, Sir Douglas. "Beyond Universities: A New Republic of the Intellect." Hobart Paper 115. The Institute of Economic Affairs, London. April, 1991. |
| Identifies the challenges universities must meet to survive as competitors and compliments to growing knowledge industries. |
| Hamel, Gary, and C.K. Prahalad. Competing for the Future: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. |
| Developing a point of view about the future should be an on-going and sustained debate within an organization. Offers perspectives on how to accomplish this along with corporate experiences. |
| Handy, Charles. "Trust and the Virtual Organization." Harvard Business Review, May-June 1995, 40-50. |
| Describes the growing importance and various levels and issues of trust which must be addressed in the virtual corporation. |
| Hardison, O.B. Jr. Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Penguin, 1989. |
| Offers an interesting approach to the ways in which various cultural forms have been altered by new technologies. |
| Healy, Jane M. Endangered Minds: Why our Children Don't Think. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1990. |
| In an attempt to explain observed differences in attention and learning behavior of today's school children, hypothesizes the "wiring" of the brain has been altered in response to changing societal stimuli, including communication and computer technologies. |
| Henkoff, Ronald. "Why Every Red-Blooded Consumer Owns a Truck..." Fortune, May 29 1995. |
| Describes the growing "do-it-yourself" trend among the middle-aged, middle-class, well educated and suburban population. |
| Huss, William R., and Edward J. Honton. "Scenario Planning - What Style Should You Use?" Long Range Planning, vol. 20, no. 4 (1987): 21-29. |
| Compares some of the major approaches to scenario analysis, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each. |
| Johnstone, D. Bruce. "Learning Productivity: A New Imperative for American Higher Education." Studies in Public Higher Education, vol. , no. No. 3 (1993): 1 -31. |
| Argues productivity advances in higher education must be achieved by focusing greater attention on the learner. Learning productivity relates the inputs of faculty and staff to demonstrated mastery of defined knowledge and skills, not to credit hours. |
| Katsh, M. Ethan. The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989. |
| Provides analysis of the role that information plays in the operation of law and examines of the impact of the traditional media, particularly print, on the law. |
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Katsh, M. Ethan. "Rights, Camera, Action: Cyberspatialsettings and the
First Amendment." Yale Law Journal, vol. 104, no. 7 (1995): pp. 1681-1717. [ URL: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~eleclaw/ylj.html ] |
| Focuses on how to understand and approach the new information technologies in light of their impact upon culture, their differences from print media and the historical links between print media and the First Amendment. |
| Kay, Alan C. "Computers, Networks and Education." Scientific American, September 1991, 138-148. |
| Discusses the need for the appropriate educational environment if global networks of computers are to fulfill their potential to enhance learning. |
| Kennedy, Paul. Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Random House, 1993. |
| Integrates transnational trends now shaping the world into a prophecy of what the 21st century could hold. |
| Kerr, Clark. "International Learning and National Purposes in Higher Education." American Behavioral Scientist, September/October 1991, 17-42. |
| Explores two "laws of motion" driving institutions of higher education today: the further internationalization of learning; and the intensified interest of nation-states to use these institutions for select purposes. |
| Kranzberg, M. "The Information Age: Evolution or Revolution?" In Information Technologies and Social Transformation, edited by B.R. Guile. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1985. |
| Discusses the evolutionary process of technological development and the often revolutionary impact it has upon societal and cultural systems. |
| Landow, George, ed. Hyper/Text/Theory. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. |
| Collection of essays on the relation of hypertext technology to individual theorists and to issues in theory such as linearity, narrativity, and philosophical argument. |
| Lane, Randall. "Computers Are Our Friends." Forbes, May 8 1995. |
| Article describes America's so-called Generation X as computer literate and embracing entreprenurialism as a way to satisfy their passion to control their own destiny and sidestep credentialism. |
| Lanham, Richard A. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. |
| A series of essays surveying the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters and how they might be taught in a newly democratized society. |
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Lanham, Richard A. "The Implications of Electronic Information for the
Sociology of Knowledge." Leonardo, vol. 27, no. 2 (1994): 155-163.
[ URL: http://www.cni.org/docs/tsh/papers/Lanham.txt ] |
| Argues that the fundamental "operating system" for the humanities is changing from the book to the digital multimedia computer screen. Outlines the consequences of this move for the creation, performance, teaching, and study of literature, music, and the visual arts. Concludes with a suggestion for how this movement might inform the administrative changes forced upon the university by the current shortage of money. |
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Lerner, Sally. "The Future of Work in North America:
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, Beyond Jobs." Futures, March 1994. [ URL: http://cs-www.uchicago.edu/pub/discussions/cpsr/jobtech/future-of-work.html ] |
| Offers an overview and evaluation of various policy options for dealing with changing patterns of work in North America. Highlights two fundamental societal tasks requiring redesign to address these changes: 1) the distribution of income, traditionally tied to work for wages, and 2) education, primarily to creating employees. |
| Levine, Arthur. "The Making of a Generation." Change, September/October 1993, 8-14. |
| Recounts the survey of defining social events of the generation of college-aged students taken in 1979 and 1993. |
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Lynch, Clifford A. "Rethinking the Integrity of the Scholarly Record in
the Networked Information Age." EDUCOM Review, March/April 1994, 38-40. [ URL: gopher://ivory.educom.edu:70/00/educom.review/review.94/mar.apr/lynch_article ] |
| Describes the systemic and subtle changes brought about by the transition from print sources and the framework and traditions of print publication to electronic information. |
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Massy, William F.; Zemsky, Robert. "Using Information Technology to
Enhance Academic Productivity." Edited by Educom. Washington, D.C.:
Interuniversity Communications Council, Inc., 1995. [ URL: http://www.educom.edu/program/nlii/keydocs/massy.html ] |
| Examines options for improving academic productivity and how the successful adoption of IT-based programs may be expected to affect the balance of technology and human capital within colleges and universities. Considers two alternative adoption scenarios and their implications for the future of higher education. |
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Miller, Wayne. "Professional Exchange in the Age of Chaos.", UCLA,
1995. [ URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/projects/inetcrit/profexchange.html ] |
| Speculation on the future of the humanities in a technological age. |
| Millett, Stephen M. "How Scenarios Trigger Strategic Thinking." Long Range Planning, vol. 21, no. 5 (1988): 61-68. |
| An overview of the business strategy system leads to identification of how companies can use scenarios for formulating strategies. |
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Mitchell, William J. City of Bits: Space, Place,
and the Infobahn. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995. [ URL: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/City_of_Bits/wjm_welcome.html ] |
| Provides a history of cyberspace and examples highlighting the potential of the digital realm to overpower and thus redefine our physical environment and, in the process, raise new architectural and urban design issues. Offers suggestions on how virtual and physical public spaces should relate. |
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Morningstar, Chip, and F. Randall Farmer. "The Lessons of Lucasfilm's
Habitat." In Cyberspace: First Steps, edited by Michael Benedikt.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991. [ URL: http://www.communities.com/paper/lessons.html ] |
| Outlines the history of Habitat, one of the first attempts to create a very large scale commercial multi-user virtual environment and describes the virtual society it fostered. |
| Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. New York, NY: Knopf, 1995. |
| Discusses, in layman's terms, the differences between bits and atoms and the economic and social implications of the "digital revolution." |
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Noam, Eli M. "Electronics and the Dim Future of the University."
Science, October 13, 1995, 247-249. [ URL: http://science-mag.aaas.org/science/scripts/display/short/270/5234/0247.html ] |
| Examines the ways in which new communications technologies are likely to strengthen research, but at the same time weaken traditional institutions of learning. |
| O'Toole, James. "Tenure: A Conscientious Objection." Change, May/June 1994. |
| Argues the negative effects of tenure. |
| Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. Edited by Terence Hawkes, New Accents. London: Routledge, 1982. |
| Surveys and interprets the work done on the differences between orality and literacy. Assesses the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, as well as of print and electronic technology, and traces the heavy oral residue that marks literature and thought until recent times. |
| Osborne, David, and Ted Gaebler. Reinventing Government. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. |
| Suggests that change at the federal level is inevitable and that the same tools used to improve performance of companies, such as internal competition and employee empowerment, can be used to reinvent government as well. |
| Patterson, Lyman Ray. The Nature of Copyright: A Law of Users' Rights. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1991. |
| A defense of the rights of readers and libraries. Provides a review of copyright events over four centuries. Argues rights of access extend to all and not just those granted by court decision, decree or license. |
| Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Idea of the University: A Reexamination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. |
| Reflects on the character of the university and assesses its functions, guiding principles and its role in society. |
| Perelman, Lewis J. School's Out: Hyperlearning, the New Technology, and the End of Education. New York, NY: William Morrow, 1992. |
| Critiques and calls for an overhaul of the traditional school system to address an economic transformation being driven by a technological revolution. |
| Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. |
| Discusses our transformation from a society that uses technology to one that is shaped by it. |
| Rayport, Jeffery F., and John J. Sviokla. "Managing in the Marketspace." Harvard Business Review, November-December 1994, 141-150. |
| Describes the new "marketspace" where product and service and place are separated and the significance for business. |
| Reinking, David. "Reading and Writing With Computers: Literacy Research in a Post-Typographic World." Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, San Diego, CA, December 3, 1994. |
| Discusses changes in the nature of the future of the "literacy business" and proposes areas for change in literacy research. |
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Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the
Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1993. [ URL: http://www.well.com/user/hlr/vcbook/ ] |
| Recounts the author's involvement in the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), to inform a wider population about the potential importance of cyberspace to political liberties and the ways virtual communities are likely to change our experience of the real world, as individuals and communities. |
| Riesman, David. On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1980. |
| Examines the growth of student consumerism in higher education. |
| Rifkin, Jeremy. The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. |
| Argues many of the jobs being replaced by new technology are gone forever. Urges preparation for a world that is phasing out mass employment. |
| Rossman, Parker. The Emerging Worldwide Electronic University: Information Age Global Higher Education. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992. |
| Suggests higher education, traditionally disparate, is progressing toward the formation of a more associative, global university. Envisions the emergence of the worldwide electronic university, will offer wider availability and more affordable education for the world's diverse population but notes that administrative models to coordinate and organize such an effort have yet to be devised. Presents potential models for the global university. |
| Schauder, Donald. "Electronic Publishing of Professional Articles: Attitudes of Academics and Implications for the Scholarly Communication Industry." Journal of the American Association for Information, vol. 45, no. 2 (1994): 73-100. |
| Summary of a study conducted to determine what, if any, contribution the publishing of professional articles in electronic form make to scholarly communication. |
| Schrage, Michael. Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration. New York, NY: Random House, 1990. |
| Journalistic study of human collaboration and the tools employed to facilitate it. |
| Schroeder, Charles C. "New Students-New Learning Styles." Change, September/October 1993, 21-26. |
| Discusses the changing patterns of learning styles among college students and how to adapt to them. |
| Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1991. |
| Provides motivation, description and examples for using a scenario building process as a strategic planning tool. |
| Stehr, Nico, and Richard V. Ericson, eds. The Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquires into Contemporary Societies. New York, NY: de Gruyter, 1992. |
| Collection of essays originating from an international symposium of the Royal Society of Canada held at the University of Alberta in the fall of 1989. Entitled "Knowledge Societies," the theme of the symposium was the evolving characteristic features of modern society. |
| Stehr, Nico. Knowledge Societies. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 1994. |
| Examines the premises of existing social theory and explores the knowledge relations in advanced societies and argues that all social theories now need to take account of the changing nature of social relations around knowledge, and defines the parameters within which this analysis should take place. |
| Stewart, Thomas A. "Your Company's Most Valuable Asset: Intellectual Capital." Fortune, October 3, 1994, 68-74. |
| Discusses the accounting difficulty, and some real life attempts, to measure and manage the intellectual capital of organizations. |
| Strauss, W., and N. Howe. Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069. New York, NY: Morrow, 1991. |
| Identifies four repeating generational patterns. Four centuries of American history, plus 80 years of its future, are reviewed and forecasted in light of the cyclical characteristic patterns of four generations: civic, adaptive, idealistic, and reactive. |
| Sweetland, James H. "Humanists, Libraries, Electronic Publishing, and the Future." Library Trends, vol. 40, no. 4 (1992): 781-803. |
| Discusses the humanist's research process and the effect electronic technology will have upon it. |
| Tasker, Mary, and David Packham. "Industry and Higher Education: a question of values." Studies in Higher Education, vol. 18, no. 2 (1993): 127-136. |
| This paper focuses on the increasing collaboration between industry and higher education, and argues for the need to acknowledge the different values of each. |
| Tasker, Mary, and David Packham. "Changing Cultures? Government Intervention in Higher Education." British Journal of Educational Studies, June 1994, 150-162. |
| Article argues the academic values associated with intellectual freedom are incommensurable with those of industry which permeate recent related government initiatives associated with enterprise education and quality audit and assessment. Concludes that if industrial values are implanted in universities, they will destroy the academic values on which open intellectual inquiry and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge depend. |
| Tucker, Marc. "Many U.S. Colleges are Really Inefficient, High-Priced Secondary Schools." Chronicle of Higher Education, June 5, 1991. |
| Calls universities and colleges to task for being part of the elementary and secondary school problem in the U.S. Claims many higher education institutions are guilty of reduced expectations and standards. |
| Tuman, Myron. Word Perfect: Literacy in the Computer Age. London: Falmer, 1992. |
| Recounts the struggle between two opposing models of reading and writing; print literacy and an emerging "online" literacy. |
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Twigg, Carol A. "How Effective is Our Teaching Infrastructure?" EDUCOM
Review, Sept./Oct. 1994. [ URL: http://www.educom.edu/program/nlii/keydocs/monograph.html ] |
| Describes how the current university teaching infrastructure is designed for a student population and time that no longer exists and suggests areas requiring change. |
| Wack, Pierre. "Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead." Harvard Business Review, September-October 1985, 73-89. |
| Describes the scenario planning process developed at Royal Dutch/Shell and the evolution and impact the decision scenarios had on Shell's management. First of two articles. |
| Wack, Pierre. "Scenarios: Shooting the Rapids." Harvard Business Review, November-December 1985, 139-150. |
| Describes how Royal Dutch/Shell came to develop and use medium-term analysis to effectively translate scenario theory into practice. Second of two articles. |
| Wicker, Tom. "America and Its Colleges: End of an Affair." Change, May/June 1994. |
| Suggests America's admiring indulgence of mass higher education is being replaced by a healthy skepticism. |
| Winner, Langdon. "How Technology Reweaves the Fabric of Society." The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 4, 1993. |
| Describes how technological development has traditionally altered the social fabric of America and that this factor is being overlooked in current debates about the future directions of the information infrastructure. Calls for greater citizen participation and greater attention to the ways society will be impacted differently based on which constituencies control the development of this infrastructure. |
| Winston, Gordon C. "Hostility, Maximization, & the Public Trust: Economics and Higher Education." Change, July/August 1992, 20-27. |
| Discusses issues of eroding public trust in institutions of higher learning. Suggests institutions need to increase attention on efficiency and being more protective of the public's sense of trust. |
| Zinn, Laura. "Teens: Here Comes the Biggest Wave Yet." Business Week, April 11 1994, 76-86. |
| Describes the growing population of teenagers and their changing role in the family and as consumers. |
| Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power: Basic Books, 1988. |
| Argues computer-based technologies are not neutral. This book is an effort to understand the structure of the choices provided by these technologies. |
| Zuboff, Shoshana. "The Emperor's New Workplace." Scientific American, September 1995. |
| Patterns of morality, sociality and feeling are evolving much more slowly than technology. Commentary of what this may mean for the future of an information economy. |
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