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Higher Education's New Frontier for the E-University and Virtual Campus

Higher Education's New Frontier for the E-University and Virtual Campus

Antonio Cartelli
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 7
ISBN13: 9781599048451|ISBN10: 1599048450|EISBN13: 9781599048468
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch046
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Cartelli, Antonio. "Higher Education's New Frontier for the E-University and Virtual Campus." Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology, edited by Antonio Cartelli and Marco Palma, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 350-356. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch046

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Cartelli, A. (2009). Higher Education's New Frontier for the E-University and Virtual Campus. In A. Cartelli & M. Palma (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology (pp. 350-356). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch046

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Cartelli, Antonio. "Higher Education's New Frontier for the E-University and Virtual Campus." In Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology, edited by Antonio Cartelli and Marco Palma, 350-356. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch046

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Abstract

Technologies entered in education since their first appearance and were used both for improving the efficacy and efficiency of traditional teaching and for creating new teaching-learning opportunities (Galliani et al., 1999). The definition “educational technologies” was coined in the 1950s to describe the equipments to be used in teaching-learning controlled environments. The introduction of the computer in teaching led to the definition of “new educational technologies” to mark the overcoming of traditional systems like audio-visual media (i.e., cinema, radio and television) with the new digital medium. In the 1970s the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) formulated the definition of instructional technology as “… the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning. ... We can think about it as a discipline devoted to techniques or ways to make learning more efficient based on theory but theory in its broadest sense, not just scientific theory”. The Internet in the 1990s introduced further elements of innovation in the use of technologies for education with an exponential growth of instruments and resources leading to the transition from face to face (f2f) teaching to online teaching-learning experiences. The Internet more than other technological experiences entered in the educational systems all over the world and is today marking a revolution in continuous education and lifelong learning.

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