Friday, January 6, 2017

Powering Up the Classroom: Teaching Tech to Teachers

Educational technologies have great potential to enhance student learning —but only if faculty use them. Here’s how several business schools are helping their faculty stay current in the digital age.

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION in education has gone from a steady stream of individual advances—first email, then the web, then smartphones—to a whirlwind of social media, mobile apps, cloud-based computing, 3-D printing, data analytics, robotics, and the Internet of Things. What distinguishes educators who view that whirlwind as exciting from those who see it as overwhelming? In a phrase, institutional support.

By Tricia Bisoux
December 20, 2016