The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast team checks in with Anne Margulies, Harvard University’s chief information officer, about the university’s renewed commitment to technology on campus and her thoughts on how campuses can help encourage innovations like Facebook, which started at the university.
Each month, The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis of and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students. Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, for a lively discussion—as well as interviews with leading thinkers in technology.
Summer is a time for colleges to take stock of technology use on campus, but IT assessment intimidates some officials. The Tech Therapy team talks with Sondra Smith, co-CIO of St. Lawrence University, about how she uses data and other tools to gauge IT performance while avoiding anxiety.
Each month, The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis of and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students. Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, for a lively discussion—as well as interviews with leading thinkers in technology.
In this month’s episode of Tech Therapy, The Chronicle’s monthly technology podcast, Ronald A. Yaros, an assistant professor specializing in mobile journalism at the University of Maryland at College Park, describes an iPhone app he developed for his courses. He also talks about his vision for helping students prepare for a business world in which smartphones will very likely be the norm.
Each month, The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis of and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students. Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, for a lively discussion—as well as interviews with…
The Tech Therapy team talks with Dan Case, associate director of learning technology at Carroll College, in Montana, about the demands his institution’s small IT staff must meet as students bring more and more devices to the campus.
Each month, The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis of and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students. Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, for a lively discussion—as well as interviews with leading thinkers in technology.
The nation’s library now archives all public Twitter messages – what’s next? The Tech Therapy team talks with Martha Anderson, director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress about when the Twitter archive will be available to researchers, and what she sees as the biggest challenges for librarians in the information age.
Each month, The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis of and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students. Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, for a lively discussion—as well as interviews with leading thinkers in technology.
Many institutions have merged their information-technology and library operations, sometimes resulting in a clash of cultures. Sue Stroyan, information-services librarian for Illinois Wesleyan University, talks to the Tech Therapy team about why this trend is likely to continue, and what tomorrow’s college library might look like.
A superfast national research network plans to hook in more hospitals, public libraries, and other “community anchors,” in hopes that new types of applications—as groundbreaking as Google or Facebook—will grow there. The Tech Therapy team talks with H. David Lambert, the new president and chief executive of the Internet2 networking group, about its vision and the challenges ahead.
Each month, The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis of and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students. Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, for a lively discussion—as well as interviews with leading thinkers in technology.
In what could be considered a model of using off-the-shelf tech tools for a high-impact class project, a writing class spent the fall semester creating resources to help victims of online bullies. The Tech Therapy team talks with Mark Marino, an assistant professor of writing at University of Southern California who led the effort, and one of his students about their online campaign.
Each month, The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students. Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter, and Warren…
Kevin Kelly, one of the founders of Wired Magazine, sat down with the Tech Therapy team to talk about his new book What Technology Wants, and what his framework for understanding change means for colleges.
The Tech Therapy team looks back on the rise of Facebook, as portrayed in a new Hollywood film, and asks whether colleges have a responsibility to educate students about the network’s privacy implications. Also, we get a status update about e-textbooks from Joel Thierstein, associate provost at Rice University and executive director of the Connexions project, a platform for e-textbooks and other online education materials.
Technology continues to change college life, and each month The Chronicle's Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students.
Join hosts Jeff Young, a Chronicle reporter (left), and Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant who works with colleges, for a lively discussion—as well as interviews with leading thinkers in technology.
Jeff and Warren welcome your questions by e-mail, phone (805-CHE-TECH), or Twitter (@techtherapists).
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Technology continues to change college life, and each month The Chronicle's Tech Therapy podcast offers analysis and advice on what the latest gadgets and buzzwords mean for professors, administrators, and students.
As always, you can subscribe to Tech Therapy through iTunes. Click here—or just search for "Tech Therapy" in the iTunes store.