Malcolm Brown, Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth, recently held a “geographically distributed” focus group to ask students for their thoughts on “what educators should be thinking about as we plan our learning environments for the next two to four years.” The fourteen students who responded provided thoughtful feedback and some interesting comments.

As Brown notes, “Perhaps the most succinct formulation of these ideas was: "I believe the most important thing to keep in mind about learning and technology is that they should be considered in that order." The message here is that technology needs to clearly serve learning.”

For the complete column, follow the link below to Brown’s EDUCAUSE Review article:

Learning and Technology, “In that order”
Educause Review, vol. 44, no. 4 (July/August 2009): 62–63