Technology is changing the way students learn. Is it changing the way colleges teach?
Not enough, says George Siemens, associate director of research and development at the University of Manitobas Learning Technologies Centre. While colleges and universities have been fairly aggressive in adapting their curricula to the changing world, Mr. Siemens told The Chronicle, What we havent done very well in the last few decades is altering our pedagogy. To help get colleges thinking about how they might adapt their teaching styles to the new ways students absorb and process information, Mr. Siemens and Peter Tittenberger, director of the center, have created a Web-based guide, called the Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning. Taking their own advice, they have outfitted the handbook with a wiki function that will allow readers to contribute their own additions. In the its introduction, the handbook declares the old pedagogical modelwhere the students draw their information primarily from textbooks, newspapers, and their professorsdead. Our learning and information acqu
