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And at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, a new $50 million education building has 75 miles of Internet networking cable and 11 miles of phone cable, allowing out-of-town students to link with the classroom.
Today’s college classrooms are high-tech marvels, with overhead projectors and grease pencils replaced by document cameras, handheld clickers and interactive white boards.
“A lot of this is us catching up with the students and what they’re bringing to us,” says Michael Reuter, 42, director of technology operations at Central Michigan.
Faculty, for the most part, see technology as a way to better connect to students in their interactive, multitasking, apps-ready world.
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‘Teach naked’ (no computers) for others Jose Bowen, a dean at the Dallas-based Southern Methodist University, recently stripped computers from lecture halls. He challenged staff instead to “teach naked” — without computers in the classroom.
— College technology ‘catching up’ with students - USATODAY.com
