HomePage Feature :: April 27, 2006

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Immersive Learning Environment or Time Machine?

An interview with Chris Dede, Harvard University (MA)

“There really is a huge gap between technology use on campus and off. It seems as though the only place you can now find a 1950s workplace is in an academic setting. Some faculty courses are like time machines that take you back half a century. Nowhere else in society can you find a setting in which refusal to use work-related technology to improve effectiveness is routinely accepted” ... Read CT’s full interview

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