Addressing the E-Learning Contradiction

Addressing the E-Learning Contradiction

Author: 
MacDonald, Colla J.
Place: 
Hershey
Publisher: 
IGI Global
Date published: 
2009
Responsibility: 
Stodel, Emma J., jt.author
Thompson, Terrie Lynn, jt.author
Editor: 
Rogers, Patricia L.
Journal Title: 
Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
Source: 
Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
Abstract: 

In 1997, Drucker suggested that due to the availability of the Internet for delivering university courses and programs, traditional higher education was in deep crisis. He claimed that university buildings were about to become “hopelessly unsuited and totally unneeded” (Drucker, 1997, p. 127). Yet in spite of this, and the technological advances that support the design, development, and delivery of alternative pedagogical approaches, many universities and university professors have resisted integrating educational technology into their teaching practices. A look at today’s university campuses, over a decade after Drucker’s prediction that university buildings are “totally unneeded,” suggests that the “brick and mortar growth” within universities is thriving. Part of what has prevented the proliferation of e-learning and other educational technologies is resistance on the part of teachers and professors to adopt it.

CITATION: MacDonald, Colla J.. Addressing the E-Learning Contradiction edited by Rogers, Patricia L. . Hershey : IGI Global , 2009. Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition - Available at: https://library.au.int/addressing-e-learning-contradiction