The Year of the Digital Campus
Dec 29th, 2004At The Journal.
A little-known fact about the Taliban is that during their temporary rule in Afghanistan, those in power ordered late 19th and early 20th century books and documents of " nonconforming&lrquo; cultures to be destroyed. After the Taliban's fall three years ago, a New York University professor set out to recover these at-risk books with a team of students. Though a painstaking process, they are scanning large amounts of ancient materials into a digital library, making these once virtually inaccessible documents available on a global scale and changing history classes forever.
Today, learning is no longer bound to a fixed location such as a classroom. Thanks to some innovative technology trends, the educational landscape is transforming into a " digital campus&lrquo; – an information-rich and seamlessly connected environment that brings the world to a student's fingertips and lets the student move freely about the globe. This digital campus functions through the integration of a multiplicity of technologies in a unified network environment – a seamless, secure, collaborative environment for learning, achievement and administration that is available to everyone.
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