Program Notes

You can find notes and documentation for the retreat at:

• http://library.usu.edu/retreat/notes.html

You can send any other documentation you have to Steven.Harris@usu.edu. Photos...PowerPoint...Word documents...anything. Keep 'em coming!

We're Under Way!

Flora Shrode and Deleyne Wentz compare notes after a delicious lunch!

Betty & Flora reporting in

Here in the beautiful Holiday Inn in downtown Salt Lake City we thought we'd let you know that we had a delightful dinner with our speakers. We thought we'd let you know that we can all look forward to a thought-provoking and entertaining retreat tomorrow.

E-Learning Failures

John Walters suggests these articles for a different view of e-learning...

Doty, Paul. "Fish, Fire, and Fallacies: Approaches to Information Technology and Higher Education." portal: Libraries and the Academy Vol. 2, No. 4 (2002), pp. 647-652.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/portal_libraries_and_the_academy/v002/2.4doty.pdf

Zemsky, Robert, and Massy, William F. Thwarted Innovation: What Happened to E-learning and Why. Pennsylvania: Learning Alliance for Higher Education, 2004.
http://www.thelearningalliance.info/Docs/Jun2004/ThwartedInnovation.pdf

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