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1 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20081 Using technology to improve the quality of education Ian Johnson

2 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20082 OVERVIEW  Change and challenges  The Knowledge Society  Changes in the Universities  Globalisation and higher education  Responsive uses of electronic information  Enhancing teaching  Furthering research

3 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20083 THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY  Scientific papers  1870 – 800 p.a.  2000 – 50,000 p.a.  Scientific journals  1800 A.D. – 90  2000 A.D. 16,000 English 16,000 Spanish and Portuguese 8,000 Chinese

4 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20084 CHANGES IN THE UNIVERSITIES  Different students  Academic preparation  Economic aspirations  Different courses  Specialised knowledge sets  Meeting labour market needs  Quality assurance

5 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20085 GLOBALISATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION  Student mobility  Variations in course content, duration and degree titles  Developing compatible systems – the Bologna process

6 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20086 INFORMING STAKEHOLDERS  Course information available on the Web  Assisting student choice  Informing accreditation and quality assurance

7 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20087 USING INFORMATION IN TEACHING  “Reading for a degree”?  Access to information  Problems of journal publishing in Latin America  Emergence of electronic publishing  Open Access journals  Institutional Repositories

8 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20088 IMPROVING ACCESS TO ELECTRONIC MEDIA  Acquiring content  Assuring ‘findability’  Registering with search engines and aggregators  Providing adequate metadata  Assuring availability  Resilient campus networks

9 UdR, Bogota, agosto 20089 ENHANCING STUDENTS’ CAPABILITY  Developing Information Literacy  Using technology to develop writing skills

10 UdR, Bogota, agosto 200810 ENHANCING TEACHING  Testing students’ understanding in class  ‘Face to face’ teaching online

11 UdR, Bogota, agosto 200811 STAFF DEVELOPMENT  Academic staff  Library and computing staff

12 UdR, Bogota, agosto 200812 Thank you for your attention Questions? Comments?

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