Technology Gap Widens Between Students and Faculty

According to the newly-released 2008 Horizon Report:

The gap between students' perception of technology and that of faculty continues to widen.

Students and faculty continue to experience technology very differently. Students have embraced social technologies like Facebook and many similar platforms in unprecedented numbers, yet these technologies remain a mystery to many on campuses. Webware tools with clear potential for education are meeting the same reception: faculty are often either unaware of tools like Google Docs and Swivel, or have difficulty integrating them into educational processes. Serving to expand this gap is the withering pace of emerging technology, and even old technology hands often tire at the thought of learning yet another new way of working. At the same time, student expectations are important, and successful learning-focused organizations have long known they ignore these expectations at their peril.

Read the full report.