How will future curricula plans be affected by the use of information technology?
The Libraries have already offered one non-credit course, Commerce 109, using the WebCT interactive courseware. Moving Commerce 109 to a Web-based self-paced interactive mode was essential in order to manage the workload of teaching 500 students while undertaking additional course development. It is anticipated that additional Web-based library instruction courses will be developed, and that existing courses will have credit attached to them. If your college could imagine the best possible environment in which to apply technology to teaching and learning, what would it look like? (i.e., what is your college’s vision for how to deliver academic applications of information technology?) The best possible environment would be one with no constraints on funding, staffing, or technology itself. In the Library context that would mean the ability to have the full text of all the world’s information resources available instantly to UofS students and staff, any time anywhere, without copyright r
